If you are on Windows 10, no doubt you have heard that Microsoft included the bash shell in its 2016 Windows 10 anniversary update. What you may not know is that this is much, much more than just the bash shell. This is a whole Linux layer that enables you to use Linux tools, and does away with a...
In this post we’ll quickly show how to create radial stacked ara charts in plotly. We’ll use the AirPassengers dataset. Inspired by Mike Bostocks post: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3048740 Radial Stacked...
After having carefully followed the online official Shiny tutorial, I decided to make a quick try at making my very first Shiny App. I should say that I found...
Python, R, Qt, peewee, bokeh, pandas, SQLite plus couple of sleepless nights and here you are a сute app for the environmental monitoring needs )))Main window of the application
Being able to visualize information through plots is essential for a statistic analysis. A simple and clean graph can explain much more than words. In this set of exercises you will test...
Slides have now been posted for many of the talks given at the recent Effective Applications of the R Language (London) conference, and I thought I'd highlight a few...
A straightforward but probabilistic riddle this week in the Riddler, which is to find the expected order of integer i when the sequence {1,2,…,n} is partitioned at random into...
We’ve just released Shiny Server and Shiny Server Pro 1.4.6. Relative to 1.4.2, our previously blogged-about version, the 1.4.6 release primarily includes bug fixes, and mitigations for low-severity security issues found by penetration...
It came to my attention that size of XDF (external data frame) file can change drastically based on the compute context and environment. When testing the output of a...
by Brandon Rohrer, Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft R or Python? Torch or TensorFlow? (or MXNet or CNTK)? Spark or map-reduce? When we're getting started on a project, the mountain...
Have you ever watched a livestream? Have you ever wondered what the actual minute to minute of doing data science looks like? Do you wonder if other R users...
R Markdown is a great tool to make research results reproducible. However, in scientific research papers or reports, tables and figures usually need to be numbered and referenced. Unfortunately,...
The paired samples t test is used to check if there are any differences in the mean of the same sample at two different time points. For example a...
Hadley Wickham, co-author (with Garrett Grolemund) of R for Data Science and RStudio's Chief Scientist, has focused much of his R package development on the un-sexy but critically important...
I just found a fun food themed dataset that I’d never heard about and that I thought I’d share. It’s from a project called What’s on the menu where...
My collection of R notes is now slightly over one year old. This note reflects on how useful the exercise of blogging about R has been so far,...
The Linux edition of the Data Science Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure was recently upgraded. The Linux DSVM includes Microsoft R, Anaconda Python, Jupyter, CNTK and many other data...
To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can either post a job for free (which works...
Info, dates and topics of our five Autumn R Courses: from programming to data manipulation, from statistics to data mining, everything with R starting with R for Beginners course. The...
Nina Zumel prepared an excellent article on the consequences of working with relative error distributed quantities (such as wealth, income, sales, and many more) called “Living in A Lognormal...
Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day, the perfect day to learn R, the programming language of pirates (arrr, matey!). If you have two-and-a-bit hours to spare, Nathaniel Phillips...
Quite often I want to share simple (static) web pages with other colleagues or clients. For example, I may have written a report using R Markdown and rendered it...
The lapply() function applies a function to individual values of a list, and is a faster alternative to writing loops. Structure of the lapply() function: lapply(LIST, FUNCTION, ...) The...
OutbreakTools implements basic tools for the analysis of Disease Outbreaks. It defines S4 class obkData to store case-base outbreak data. It also provides a function, plotggphy, to visualize such...
Short Course on R and Data Mining Information Technology and Engineering, University of Canberra Fees: There is no fees for the short course but seats are limited to 60...
Youtube.com is the second most accessed website in the world (surpassed only by its parent, google.com). It has a whopping 1 billion unique views a month. [1,...
Ever wanted to run a model on separate groups of data? Read on! Here’s an example of a regression model fitted to separate groups: predicting a car’s Miles per Gallon...
Quantide in partnership with DataCamp , offers an introductory online course to R completely in Italian. The course is free and open to anyone who wishes to participate. There...
The guys at Stack Overflow have recently released a very interesting dataset containing the entire history of questions made by users since the beginning of the site, back in...
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