R programmers are not necessary data scientists, but rather software engineers. We have an entirely new multitrack focus area that helps engineers learn AI skills – AI for Engineers. This focus area is designed specifically to help programmers get familiar with AI-driven software that utilizes deep learning and machine learning models to enable conversational AI, … Continue reading ODSC...
A new version 0.1.2 of the tint package is arriving at CRAN as I write this. It follows the recent 0.1.1 release which included two fabulous new vignettes...
My eye was caught by this tweet by Robin Wigglesworth of the Financial Times with an Alan Smith animation of the US Treasury yield curve from 2005 to 2009....
Confession time: years ago, I was skeptical of podcasts. I was a music-only listener on commutes. Can you imagine? But around 2016, I gave in and finally took the...
For my research I needed to download gridded weather data from ERA-Interim, which is a big dataset generated by the ECMWF. Getting long term data through their website is...
Metadata are an essential part of a robust data science workflow ; they record the meaning of each variable : its units, quality, allowed range, how we collect it,...
In this post we are talking about one of the most unintuitive results of statistics: the so called false positive paradox which is an example of the so called...
Every so often a problem arises where it’s appropriate to use gradient descent, and it’s fun (and / or easier) The post Applying gradient descent – primer / refresher...
Here are a few of the more commonly used notations found in R code and documentation that confuse coders of any skill level who are new to R. Be...
JASP is a free and open source statistics package that targets beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. This article is one of a series of reviews which...
Tables are very much the standard way of representing data in dashboard along with visualizations. Wouldnt it be more useful if you could edit the values in the tables...
Filters Learners Resampling mlr-org NEWS Roadmap for mlr The last mlr release was in August 2018 - so it was definitely time for a new release after around 9 months of development! The NEWS file...
I recently had the need to run an ANCOVA, not a task I perform all that often and my first time using R to do so (I’ve done it...
Installing R packages on Linux systems has always been a risky affair. In RStudio Package Manager 1.0.8, we’re giving administrators and R users the information they need to make installing packages...
Stefanie Butland, rOpenSci Community Manager Some things are just irresistible to a community manager – PhD student Hugo Gruson’s recent tweets definitely fall into that category. I was surprised and...
Do you spend a lot of time on data exploration? If yes, then you will like today’s post about AutoEDA written by Mateusz Staniak. If you ever dreamt of...
The Parallax View In the previous post of this series unveiling the relationship between UFO sightings and population, we crossed the threshold of normality underpinning linear models to construct...
When it comes to data visualization, it can be fun to think of all the flashy and exciting ways to display a dataset. But if you're trying to convey...
When we try to estimate the correlation coefficient between multiple variables, the task is more complicated in order to obtain a simple and tidy result. A simple solution is...
Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When setting up R and RStudio Server on a cloud Linux instance, some thought should be...
Imagine you have a function that only takes one argument, but you would really like to work on a vector of values. A short example on how function Vectorize()...
John Cook recently wrote an interesting blog post on random vectors and random projections. In the post, he states two surprising facts of high-dimensional geometry and gives some intuition...
Here is an example how easy it is to use cdata to re-layout your data. Tim Morris recently tweeted the following problem (corrected). Please will you take pity on...
Since 2017 I have been an instructor for DataCamp, the VC-backed online data science education platform. What this means is that I am not an employee, but I have...
Interactive EDA is nice but customized interactive EDA is even nicer. To celebrate the new CRAN version of my ‘ExPanDaR’ package I prepare a customized variant of ‘ExPanD’ to...
Interactive EDA is nice but customized interactive EDA is even nicer. To celebrate the new CRAN version of my ‘ExPanDaR’ package I prepare a customized variant of ‘ExPanD’ to...
Randomization is super useful because it usually eliminates the risk that confounding will lead to a biased estimate of a treatment effect. However, this only goes so far. If...
This month’s issue of Significance magazine has a very nice summary article of the sinh-arcsinh normal distribution. (Unfortunately, the article seems to be behind a paywall.) This distribution was...
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The full program is now available on the conference webpage of BayesComp 20, next 7-10 Jan 2020. There are eleven invited sessions, including one j-ISBA session, and a further...
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