How can you work faster in R Studio? Do you really want to know? In this article, I would like to share with you some of my favorite productivity features of R Studio along with their respective shortcuts. As well I will provide information about some other tools and techniques that are useful. I also prepared Article R Studio Shortcuts...
Asset returns have certain statistical properties, also called stylized facts. Important ones are: Absence of autocorrelation: basically the direction of the return of one day doesn’t tell you anything...
A fundamental aspect of the reproducible research framework is that (statistical) analysis can be reproduced; that is, given a set of instructions (or a script file) the exact results...
First some background, then the bad news, and finally the good news. Spoiler alert: The bad news is that exploring the posterior is intractable; the good news is that...
Last Friday, we discussed the use of ROC curves to describe the goodness of a classifier. I did say that I will post a brief paragraph on the interpretation...
As of cdata version 1.0.8 cdata implements an operator notation for data transform. The idea is simple, yet powerful. First let’s start with some data. d
Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Debbie Berebichez, a physicist, TV host and data scientist and is currently the Chief Data Scientist at Metis...
I just pushed a new release of quantmod to CRAN! I'm most excited about the update to getSymbols() so it doesn't throw an error and stop processing if there's a problem with one...
The cyphr package seems to provide a good choice for small research group that shares sensitive data over internet (e.g., DropBox). I did some simple experiment myself and made...
We received almost 400 applications for our 2019 internship program from students with very diverse backgrounds. After interviewing several dozen people and making some very difficult decisions, we...
In all of my undergraduate classes, I require a term project, done in groups of 3-4 students. Though the topic is specified, it is largely open-ended, a level of...
ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Secured Embedding of Shiny Apps Since version 2.0.1 ShinyProxy provides a REST API to manage...
Introduction:We will identify anomalous products on the production line by using measurements from testing stations and deep learning models. Anomalous products are not failures, these anomalies are products close...
With all of the excitement surrounding cdata style control table based data transforms (the cdata ideas being named as the “replacements” for tidyr‘s current methodology, by the tidyr authors...
In the last few weeks we’ve seen a great deal of controversy in Brazil regarding financial investments. Too keep it short, Empiricus, an ad-based company that massively sells online...
A new RcppArmadillo release based on a new Armadillo upstream release arrived on CRAN and Debian today. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming...
After my recent post on Anscombe's Quartet in which I demonstrated how to efficiently adjust any data set to match mean, variance, correlation (x,y), as well as regression coefficients....
We recently saw this UX (user experience) question from the tidyr author as he adapts tidyr to cdata techniques. The terminology that he is not adopting from cdata is...
The post Decode Lyrics in Pop Music: Visualise Prose with the Songsim algorithm appeared first on The Lucid Manager. The lyrics of songs are more and more repetitive. Wihin this...
The data from the 2018 wave of the General Social Survey was released during the week, leading to a flurry of graphs showing various trends. The GSS is one...
So now that I live in Melbourne, to blend in with the locals I need to at least vaguely follow the AFL (Australian Football League). For instance, my work...
Doing human face detection with computer vision is probably something you do once unless you work for police departments, you work in the surveillance industry or for the Chinese...
Our latest tool development at STATWORX: random boost, an algorithm twice as fast as gradient boosting, with comparable prediction performance. Der Beitrag How to Speed Up Gradient Boosting by...
When this blog moved from bioinformatics to data science I ran a Twitter poll to ask whether I should start afresh at a new site or continue here. “Continue...
RStudio Connect 1.7.2 is ready to download, and this release contains some long-awaited functionality that we are excited to share. Several authentication and user-management tooling improvements have been added, including the...
This spring, I’ll be giving talks at a couple of Meetups and conferences: March, 26th: At the data lounge Bremen, I’ll be talking about Explainable Machine Learning April, 11th: At the...
Components Qlik Sense is a tool for exploratory data analysis and visualisation. It’s powerful and versatile. It’s can, however, be significantly enhanced by interfacing with R. Qlik Sense does not...
Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When accessing an API or database in R, it is often necessary to provide credentials such...
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