A maintenance release of RcppQuantuccia arrived on CRAN earlier today. RcppQuantuccia brings the Quantuccia header-only subset / variant of QuantLib to R. At the current stage, it mostly offers date and calendaring functions. This release was trigger...
The free online book Open Forensic Science in R was created to foster open science practices in the forensic science community. It is comprised of eight chapters: an introduction...
What does a modern analytics platform need to offer companies real added value? Currently, new, innovative platforms are sprouting up on the market again and again – implemented with...
So far in this series, we used vectors from built-in datasets (rivers, women and nhtemp), or created them by stringing together several numbers with the c function (e.g. c(1,...
Motivation I’ve read several studies and articles that claim Econometric models are still superior to machine learning when it comes to forecasting. In the article, “Statistical and Machine Learning forecasting...
Recently I have been working on a very large legacy project which utilises the excellent data.table package throughout. What this has resulted in is an R CMD check containing...
settle down and have another cup of coffee code TLDR There are a lot of Russian’s talking to a lot of Trump campaign members in Mueller report. There are so many it’s...
{golem} has been developed to help building big Shiny application to put in production. What if {golem} could be used to build another popular interactive web application, recently made...
Why you need to be using Grep when programming with R. There’s a reason that grep is included in most if not all programming language to... The post How To...
Earlier this year, I released a simple R package (available at basilesimon/noaastorms) that downloads, cleans and parses NOAA IBtrack data for you. As the NOAA updated its datasets, noaastorms is...
In a previous post, we explored the dividend history of stocks included in the SP500, and we followed that with exploring the dividend history of some NASDAQ tickers. Today’s...
Yesterday I released an ebook on Leanpub, called Modern R with the tidyverse, which you can also read for free here. In this blog post, I want to give some context. Modern R...
In this post, We’re simply going to see 5 tricks that could help improve your tooling using {tidyverse}. Create a difference variable between the current value and the next value This...
We're RStudio Trainers! Big news. RStudio recently started certifying trainers in three areas: the tidyverse, Shiny and teaching. To be certified to teach a topic you have to pass...
Robert Duff (Transport for London) and Rahulan Chandrasekaran (Department for Transport) Robert and Rahulan are doing a joint presentation titled ‘Let me in! Let me on! Quantifying highly frustrating...
In time series context, one of most the commonly used measures is the MAPE. In this blog post, I evaluate critical arguments and weaknesses concerning the MAPE and demonstrate...
This post will discuss ways of handling huge numbers in R using the gmp package. The gmp package The gmp package provides us a way of dealing with really...
During a search for data on programming language usage I discovered Stack Overflow Trends, showing an interesting plot of language tags appearing on Stack Overflow questions (see below). Where...
At the Summer School of the Swiss Association of Actuaries, in Lausanne, I will start talking about networks and insurance this Friday. Slides are available online
If you’re like me, when running a process through a loop you’ll add in counters and progress indicators. That way The post Fun with progress bars: Fish, daggers and...
There are so many wonderful EARL talks happening this year – it’s hard to highlight them all! But we thought we’d share some that the Mango team are really...
Wrangling Big Data is one of the best features of the R programming language, which boasts a Big Data Ecosystem that contains fast in-memory tools (e.g. data.table) and distributed...
rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci received a $678K award from the Sloan Foundation to expand Software Peer Review. We are hiring for a new position in statistical software testing and peer review. Join our...
At the Summer School of the Swiss Association of Actuaries, in Lausanne, I will start talking about text based data and NLP this Thursday. Slides are available online Ewen...
Many if not most data clean up, tidying, wrangling, and joining can be done directly in R. There are many advantages to this approach – i.e. read in data...
Reducing carbon emissions is maybe the world's most pressing challenge at the moment. One obvious avenue for action is the reduction of carbon emissions from electricity generation, which are...
vtreat is a DataFrame processor/conditioner that prepares real-world data for supervised machine learning or predictive modeling in a statistically sound manner. vtreat takes an input DataFrame that has a...
Planning for a trip to Cornwall, I was churning through some mysteries there, largely picking them at random from the map. I worked my way through this one by...
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