These are slides from a lecture I gave at the School of Applied Sciences in Münster. In this lecture, I talked about Real-World Data Science and showed examples on Fraud Detection, Customer Churn & Predictive Maintenance. Real-World Data Scie...
The future package is a powerful and elegant cross-platform framework for orchestrating asynchronous computations in R. It's ideal for working with computations that take a long time to complete;...
From a gentle introduction to a practical solution, this is a post about feature selection using genetic algorithms in R.
Clusterlab is a CRAN package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/clusterlab/index.html) for the routine testing of clustering algorithms. It can simulate positive (data-sets with __1 clusters) and negative controls (data-sets with 1 cluster). Why...
At the beginning of the new year I always want to clean up my photos on my phone. It just never happens. So now (like so many others I...
As leading advanced analytics partner for RStudio, Mango Solutions are delighted to be contributing to the upcoming rstudio::conf programme with a workshop and a talk. Two of Mango’s senior...
Last week the R package ruimtehol was released on CRAN (https://github.com/bnosac/ruimtehol) allowing R users to easily build and apply neural embedding models on text data. It wraps the 'StarSpace' library...
Everything “neural” is (again) the latest craze in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Now what is the magic here? Let us dive directly into a (supposedly little silly) example:...
H2O + AWS + purrr (Part II) This is the second installment in a three part series on integrating H2O, AWS and p(f)urrr. In Part II, I will showcase how...
This is the next set of presentations on “Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning”. In the 4th presentation I discuss and derive the generalized equations for a multi-unit,...
The splashr package — an alternative to Selenium for javascript-enabled/browser-emulated web scraping — is now at version 0.6.0 (still in dev-mode but on its way to CRAN in...
R Tip: use inline operators for legibility. A Python feature I miss when working in R is the convenience of Python‘s inline + operator. In Python, + does the...
I’m happy to announce that version 0.8.0 of my ggeffects-package is on CRAN now. The update has fixed some bugs from the previous version and comes along with many...
I’m excited to announce that my first package has been accepted to CRAN! The package pcLasso implements principal components lasso, a new method for sparse regression which I’ve developed...
Language is a tool that allows human beings to interact and communicate with each other. The clearer we express ourselves, the better the idea is transferred from our mind...
We are pleased to announce the release of our new Code of Conduct. rOpenSci’s community is our best asset and it’s important that we put strong mechanisms in place...
A major update (version 1.4.0) of the R package colorspace has been released to CRAN, enhancing many of the package's capabilities,...
Travis CI for R — Advanced guide Continuous integration for building an R project in Travis CI including code coverage, pkgdown documentation, osx and multiple R-Versions Photo by Guilherme Cunha on UnsplashTravis CI is a...
Visualising a difference in mean between two groups isn’t as straightforward as it should. After all, it’s probably the most common quantitative analysis in science. There are two obvious...
Medium + r-bloggers — How to integrate? Build up a PHP script that allows you to post your Medium articles on r-bloggers.com. The script filters an RSS feed by item tags. Photo by Ato...
Is your process in control? The XmR chart is a great statistical process control (SPC) tool that can help you answer this question, reduce waste, and increase productivity. We'll...
Synthpop – A great music genre and an aptly named R package for synthesising population data. I recently came across The post Generating Synthetic Data Sets with ‘synthpop’ in...
Last week I wrote a blog post where I analyzed one year of newspapers ads from 19th century newspapers. The data is made available by the national library of Luxembourg. In this...
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(TL;DR: author continues to use his undiagnosed OCD for good. Breath-first search introduced on simple graph.)
(TL;DR: author continues to use his undiagnosed OCD for good. Breath-first search introduced on simple graph.)
Alright, seems like this is developing into a blog where I am increasingly investigating my own music listening habits.Recently, I've come across the analyzelastfm package by Sebastian Wolf. I...
CategoriesVisualizing Data Tags Best R Packages Data Visualisation R Programming The life cycle of Data science can never be completed without communicating the results of the analysis/research. In fact, Data Visualization is one of...
I just released a major update to package GetDFPData. Here are the main changes: Naming conventions for caching system are improved so that it reflects different versions of FRE and...
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