TL;DR mlr was refactored into mlr3. caret was refactored into tidymodels. What are the main differences in terms of software design, and tweaking it for your own needs. R6 vs S3. Which one is less fraigle? Motivation My previous post from mi...
R 3.6.2, the latest update to the R language, is now available for download on Windows, Mac and Linux. As a minor release, R 3.6.2 makes only small improvements...
This semester I started teaching introduction to statistics and data analysis with R, at Tel-Aviv university. I put in a lot of efforts into bringing practical challenges, examples from real...
House & presidential election returns Trump margins in 2016 Flipped House Districts from 2016 to 2018 The 31 House Democrats in Trump-supportive districts A quick geographical perspective The 13 House Democrats in solid Trump...
Reprinted from https://towardsdatascience.com/an-accidental-side-effect-of-text-mining-4b43f8ee1273 As I read on my kindle I highlight the passages that I like so that I can re-read them later. These annotations are stored on my Kindle...
Benchmarking your code is one thing – another thing is to keep and use the gained knowledge for future projects. In this blog, Jakob presents his collection of benchmarks...
I’m just about to leave for my vacation and, as usual, I’ll write about the highlights of 2019 and my plans for the year to come. First, let’s talk...
An R package can be viewed as a set of functions, of which only a part are exposed to the user. In this blog post we shall concentrate of...
A challenge found on the board of the coffee room at CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine: When sampling with replacement three numbers in {0,1,…,N}, what is the probability that their...
Week 15 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 15 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
We’ll be holding a two-day training workshop on NIMBLE, June 3-4, 2020 in Berkeley, California. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially...
Operators you should make more use of in R Only recently have I discovered the true power of some the operators in R. Here are some tips on some...
In two previous posts, we explored IPOs and IPO returns by sector and year since 2004 and then examined the returns of portfolios constructed by investing in IPOs each...
Testing is a crucial component to any software package. Testing makes sure that your code does what you expect it to do; and importantly, makes it safer to make changes moving...
A while ago I was researching on creating a splash screen for a Shiny application. My gut feel was that there will readily be a package available for this...
A new version (0.1.5) of the TSstudio package was pushed to CRAN last month. The release includes new functions as well as bug fixing, and update of the package...
# Abstract As web dashboards have become the norm for interacting with data, looks and added functionality have taken a more prominent role. Dashboard users expect the typical look...
One goal of game theory is to understand how effective cooperation can be sustained in relationships. You may have heard of Axelrod’s famous tournaments that studied how effective different...
Partial Moments Equivalences Below are some basic equivalences demonstrating partial moments’ role as the elements of variance. Why is this relevant? The additional information generated from partial moments permits...
Politics with a big data: data analysis in social research using R 20 -22 December 2019 Presidency University Department of Political Science, Presidency University In association with Association SNAP...
K-nearest neighbors is easy to understand supervised learning method which is often used to solve classification problems. The algorithm assumes that similar objects are closer to each other. To...
This is a re-post by the author from: https://www.bsetmet.com/index.php/2019/05/26/gist-rstudio-vsersions-ubuntu/ I got fed up with the manual process, so I started to automate the entire process Ubuntu in a bash...
There seems to be some revolution going on in the R sphere… people seem to be jumping at what is commonly known as the tidyverse, a collection of packages...
A maintenance release 0.9.12 of the RcppClassic package arrived earlier today on CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated initial Rcpp API which no...
Introduction R AnalyticFlow (RAF) is a free and open source graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. ...
Among DESCRIPTION usual fields is the free-text URL field where package authors can store various links: to the development website, docs, upstream tool, etc. In this post, we shall...
I’ve been participating in the design of a new study that will evaluate interventions aimed at reducing both pain and opioid use for patients on dialysis. This study is...
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Moving into 2020, three things are clear - Organizations want Data Science, Cloud, and Apps. Here are the Top 5 essential skills for Data Scientists that need to build...
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