Many of the methods used in time series analysis and forecasting have been around for quite some time but have taken a back seat to machine learning techniques in...

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International Code Talk Like A Pirate Day almost slipped by without me noticing (September has been a crazy busy month), but it popped up in the calendar notifications today...

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Why care about patents? 1. Patents play a critical role in incentivizing innovation, without which we wouldn't have much of the technology we rely on everyday What does your iPhone, Google's PageRank...

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International Talk Like A Pirate Day Q: What has 8 legs, 8 arms and 8 eyes? A: 8 pirates. Avast, ye scurvy scum! Today be September...

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I have written a blog post about why I love R and prefer it to other languages. The post is on my new site, but since it isn’t on...

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Take the mystery out of CRAN level package maintenance - Thinking of creating a new package? Dread the task of function documentation? Afraid to run...

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The fourth EARL London conference took place last week, and once again it was an enjoyable and informative showcase of practical applications of R. Kudos to the team from...

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I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2017 Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Conference. My favorite part of the conference was talking to people... The post Datasets for Building...

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I was socially engineered by @yoniceedee into creating today’s post due to being prodded with this tweet: Where to see the best fall foliage, based on your location: https://t.co/12pQU29ksB...

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Invitation to the 3rd Big Data Analytics World Championships 2017 We invite members of the R-Bloggers/R-Users community to participate in the 2017 TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships (www.texata.com).  You’re Free...

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Employee turnvover (attrition) is a major cost to an organization, and predicting turnover is at the forefront of needs of Human Resources (HR) in many organizations. Until now the...

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As mentioned in the previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/model-operational-loss-directly-with-tweedie-glm/), we often need to model non-negative numeric outcomes with zeros in the operational loss model development. Tweedie GLM provides a convenient interface...

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A rather boring and otherwise uneventful release 0.9.7 of RcppClassic is now at CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated first Rcpp API; no...

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This is common case when working with data that your source is a remote database. Usual ways to cope this when using R is either to load all the...

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A puzzling Le Monde mathematical puzzle for which I could find no answer in the allotted time!: A most democratic electoral system allows every voter to have at least...

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A brandnew and very exciting (to us, at least) package called pinp just arrived on CRAN, following a somewhat unnecessarily long passage out of incoming. It is based...

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A new version of drat arrived earlier today on CRAN as another no-human-can-delay-this automatic upgrade directly from the CRAN prechecks. It is mostly a maintenance release ensuring PACKAGES.rds...

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On this set of exercises, we are going to use the lm and glm functions to perform several generalized linear models on one dataset. Since this is a basic...

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Creating a meaningful visualization from data with long lists can be challenging. While word clouds are often the popular choice, they are not always the best option. This post...

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I’ve blathered about trust before 1 2, but said blatherings were in a “what if” context. Unfortunately, the if has turned into a when, which begged for further blathering...

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I’m working on the next update of my sjPlot-package, which will get a generic plot_model() method, which plots any kind of regression model, with different plot types being supported...

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INTRODUCTION Dear reader, If you are a newbie in the world of machine learning, then this tutorial is exactly what you need in order to introduce yourself to this...

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House effects in state space models of voting intention “House effects” is the term commonly used in models of voting intention to refer to the different statistical biases of different...

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Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.4.1 and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This...

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A collection of liars in this Le Monde mathematical puzzle: A circle of 16 liars and truth-tellers is such that everyone states that their immediate neighbours are both liars....

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R functions can be used to create chart templates, which keep the look and feel of reports consistent. This post gives step by step guide on how to create...

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Most R users are quite familiar with data frames: the data.frame is the fundamental object type for working with columnar data in R. But for SQL Server users, the...

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