The Shift and Balance Fallacies

October 15, 2020 | jmount

Two related fallacies I see in machine learning practice are the shift and balance fallacies (for an earlier simple fallacy, please see here). They involve thinking logistic regression has a bit simpler structure that it actually does, and also thinking logistic regression is a bit less powerful than it actually […] [Read more...]

10 Must-Know Tidyverse Features!

October 14, 2020 | Business Science

R Tutorials Update Interested in more R tutorials? Learn more R tips: How to Make Publication-Quality Excel Pivot Tables with R, and Introducing Modeltime Ensemble: Time Series Forecast Stacking. 👉 Register for our blog to get new articles as w...
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My year in R

October 14, 2020 | R on Amit Levinson

Image by Allison Horst Learning R for a little over a year now was and still is a great experience. But a year isn’t a lot, so why make a blog post about it? I believe that pausing what one is doing and periodically evaluating if this pursuit is ... [Read more...]

Version 0.10.0 of NIMBLE released

October 14, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.10.0 provides new features, improvements in speed of building models and ...
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Spatial Data Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks, Part 2

October 14, 2020 | Richard Plant

Spatial Data Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks, Part 2 Richard E. Plant Additional topic to accompany Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture using R, Second Edition http://psfaculty.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/plant/sda2.htm Chapter and section references are contained in that text, which is referred to as SDA2. Data ...
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Climate Change & AI for GOOD | Online Open Forum Oct 15th

October 14, 2020 | Lea Dannenhauer

Join Data Natives for a discussion on how to curb Climate Change and better protect our environment for the next generation. Get inspired by innovative solutions which use data, machine learning and AI technologies for GOOD. Lubomila Jordanova, Founder of Plan A, and featured speaker, explains that “the IT sector ... [Read more...]

My thoughts on the R-HTA workshops

October 13, 2020 | R | Gianluca Baio

Last Friday on Monday, we held our online R-HTA workshop. We will discuss the feedback and agree on ways forward in the consortium Scientific Committee soon, but I thought I’d write down some personal reactions to the very interesting discussions... [Read more...]

Five Factors Across the Business Cycle

October 13, 2020 | Franklin Parker

Probably the most popular models in modern investment management are factor models. Growing out of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), factor models were first theorized in Arbitrage Portfolio Theory and the concept was expanded and applied to risk premiums by Nobel-laureate Eugene Fama and Kenneth French (French, surprisingly, did ...
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Short & Sweet: {cdcfluview} 0.9.2 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors

October 13, 2020 | hrbrmstr

The CDC continues to “deliver” in 2020, this time by changing the JSON response of one of the hidden APIs that my {cdcfluview} package wraps. CDC: So helpful! It was a quick fix, and version 0.9.2 passed automated CRAN checks in ~9.42 minutes! 💙 the CRAN team! Plus, a special shout-out to Ian-McGovern (GH ...
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