A new minor release 0.3.3.7.0 of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN today (and just went to Debian too) bringing support for Eigen 3.3.7 to R. This release comes almost a year after the previous minor release 0.3.3.5.0. Besides the upgrade to the new upstream...
Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition author Dr. Nina Zumel, with a fresh author’s copy of her book!
When plotting an lm object in R, one typically sees a 2 by 2 panel of diagnostic plots, much like the one below: This link has an excellent explanation...
Week 11 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 11 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
In a previous post, we explored IPOs and IPO returns by sector and year since 2004. Today, let’s investigate how portfolios formed with those IPOs have performed. We will...
Studies of muscle physiology often rely on closed-source, proprietary software for not only recording data but also for data wrangling and analyses. Although specialized software might be necessary to...
As a data scientist, you will likely be asked one day to automate your analysis and port your models to production environments. When that happens you cross the blurry...
The Durban EDGE (Economic Development and Growth in eThekwini) DataQuest was held at UKZN (Westville Campus) on 13 November 2019. Participants were tasked with creating something interesting and useful...
I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big release comprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of...
Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series...
Regularization is a way of avoiding overfit by restricting the magnitude of model coefficients (or in deep learning, node weights). A simple example of regularization is the use of...
Logistic Regression is one of the most popular classification techniques. In this sneak peek from Data Science Dojo's bootcamp, you'll learn about this popular algorithm and go through a...
Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week's AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live...
At last week's Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, our team delivered a series of 6 talks about AI and machine learning applications with Azure. The videos from each talk...
My AP Stats class has started their first R programming assignment this week. I gave them the code for them to type in and play with. This will give...
A new minor release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN, following the previous 0.0.13 release in September. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by...
RStudio makes Oracle accessibility from R easier via odbc and connections Pane1. Personally, I find it’s not so easy. As it finally works for me, I will detail some snippets...
It has been an old dream to teach a computer to see, i.e. to hold something in front of a camera and let the computer tell you what it...
@racently is a side project that I have been nursing along for a couple of years. It addresses a problem that I have as a runner: my race results...
How resources are grouped in CKAN Initialising ckanr and exploring groups of resources Connect to CKAN with dplyr and download from one resource Downloading all resources from a dataset In previous blog posts...
To the uninitiated, software testing may seem variously boring, daunting or bogged down in obscure terminology. However, it has the potential to be enormously useful for people developing software...
I am involved with a very interesting project - the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory - where a primary goal is to fund a large group of pragmatic pilot studies to...
Introduction: We will identify anomalous patterns in data, this process is useful, not only to find inconsistencies and errors but also to find abnormal data behavior, being useful even to...
Next week I will be delivering a free online R training. This is a new course I've created called Mastering Data Structures in R. This course is for you...
I’ve been exploring the feasibility of aggregating data on prices of replacement parts for heavy machinery. There are a number of websites which list this sort of data. I’m...
Tidygeocoder is a newly published R package which provides a tidyverse-style interface for geocoding. It returns latitude and longitude coordinates in tibble format from addresses using the US Census or...
CRAN has accepted my 'pdqr' package. Here are important examples of how it can be used to describe and evaluate statistical uncertainty. ...
Florianne Verkroost is a PhD candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. With a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies...
While I’m talking about getting data into R this weekend, here’s another quick example that came up in class this week. The mortality data in the previous example were...
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