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 algorithm, and a butter substitute called Smart Balance all have in common? ...They all probably wouldn't be here if not for patents. A patent provides its owner with the ability to make money...
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...
Take the mystery out of CRAN level package maintenance - Thinking of creating a new package? Dread the task of function documentation? Afraid to run...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In this set of exercises, we are going to explore some applications of probability functions and how to plot some density functions. The package MASS will be used in...
Week 2 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining – Week 2 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
The ggpubr R package facilitates the creation of beautiful ggplot2-based graphs for researcher with non-advanced programming backgrounds. The current material presents a collection of articles for simply creating...
A new and much enhanced version of RcppMsgPack arrived on CRAN a couple of days ago. It came together following this email to the r-package-devel list which made...
A new minor release of RcppRedis arrived on CRAN last week, following the release 0.2.0 of RcppMsgPack which brought the MsgPack headers forward to release 2.1.5. This required...
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