Last week the Census Bureau published a free course I created on using Choroplethr to map US Census Data. Unfortunately, a few people have reported problems when following one of the examples in the course. This post describes that issues and provides instructions for working around it. Where does the bug occur? The bug occurs The post Bug when...
This blog post has two goals Investigate the bench package for timing R functions Consequently explore the different algorithms in the digest package using bench What is digest? The...
On 25 November 2019, BayesCamp will be hosting a one-day course called Get up and running with Bayesian data analysis, … More
I’ve talked about the retailpocalypse before and this morning I was greeted with the news about Dressbarn closing all 650 stores as I fired up a browser. I tweeted...
In this article we present our R package rsync, which serves as an interface between R...
There are a million reasons to learn R (see e.g. Why R for data science – and not Python?), but where to start? I present to you the ultimate...
Some say data is the new oil. Others equate its worth to water. And then there are those who believe that data scientists will be (in fact, they already...
We have just released two new free video lectures on vectors from a programmer’s point of view. I am experimenting with what ideas do programmers find interesting about vectors,...
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your editor (i.e., RStudio). Category Programming Tags Flexdashboard R Programming RMarkdown In this article, you learn how to make Automated data report storytelling in R...
It has been just a little more than a day since I announced my new R package, panelr, to the wider world. My new #rstats package, panelr, is now on CRAN....
There has been a lot of interest in RStudio’s instructor training and certification program since it was announced in February. People are now going through the training course and...
recorder 0.8.1 is now available on CRAN. recorder is a lightweight toolkit to validate new observations before computing their corresponding predictions with a predictive model. With recorder the validation process consists of...
We strive for high quality in our suite of packages, in practice via a system of software peer review, and via packaging guidelines that keep growing. There is therefore...
In the documentation of Haskell module NgxExport.Tool.Aggregate there is a small example of how to establish monitoring of Nginx worker’s load. In a few words, it is possible to...
Dave's Donuts offers 14 flavors of donuts (consider the supply of each flavor as being unlimited). The “grab bag” box consists of flavors randomly selected to be in the...
Welcome to the second part of R Studio shortcuts and tips! If you have not yet read r studio shortcuts and tips – part one, I strongly recommend to...
Overnight, digest version 0.6.19 arrived on CRAN. It will get uploaded to Debian in due course. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256,...
I had amazing weekend in Gdansk thanks to the satRday conference organized by Olgun Aydin, Ania Rybinska and Michal Maj. Together with Hanna Piotrowska we had a talk ,,Machine...
One of the investment concepts that every long term investor should know is the effect of consistency over corporate performance. The main idea is that older and profitable companies...
Intro On my last few posts I’ve tried answering high level questions such as “What is Causal inference?”, “How is it different than ML?” and “When should I use...
Very happy to share that my DataCamp course “Survey and Measure Development in R” is now available. Check it out here — the first chapter is free. From the...
A new version 0.4.9 of RQuantLib reached CRAN and Debian. It completes the change of some internals of RQuantLib to follow suit to an upstream change in QuantLib....
The prominent conference R/Finance, held annually in Chicago, had a great program yesterday and today. As I wrote following last year’s conference, the organizers were criticized for including no...
It has been a long time coming, but my R package panelr is now on CRAN. Since I started work on it well over a year ago, it has become essential to...
It has been a long time coming, but my R package panelr is now on CRAN. Since I started work on it well over a year ago, it has become essential to...
The creation of this blog post was prompted by this tweet, asking an age-old question: @spacemacs— Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) May 16, 2019 This is actually a very important question, that I...
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ directly from your editor (i.e., RStudio). Category Basic Statistics Tags Data Visualisation Maps R Programming This is the fourth part of our post series about the exploratory...
I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the...
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