You have got the best job of the 21st century. Like a treasure hunter, looking for a data treasure chest while sailing through data lakes. In many companies you are a digital maker – armed with skills that turn you to a modern-day polymath and a toolset which is so holistic and complex at once, … „Dear data scientists,...
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 post a job for free (and there are...
You can find members of the rOpenSci team at various meetings and workshops around the world. Come say ‘hi’, learn about how our software packages can enable your research,...
Do a t-test APA formatted output Flexibility Dataframe of Values Contribute Credits Previous blogposts One of the most time-consuming part of data analysis in...
Even though the libraries for R from Python, or Python from R code execution existed since years and despite of a recent announcement of Ursa Labs foundation by Wes...
I haven't had a lot of time to play with this but yesterday, I discovered the tuber R package, which allows you to interact with the YouTube API.To use...
I’ve heard about a number of consulting companies, that decided to use simple linear model instead of a black box model with higher performance, because ,,client wants to understand...
New Features As promised, we kept on working on our bounceR package. For once, we changed the interface: users now do not have to choose a number of tuning...
As promised - though a bit delayed - below are links to my slides and the video of my talk on Future: Parallel & Distributed Processing in R for...
It seems like all the best R packages proudly use GitHub and have a README adorned with badges across the top. The recent Microsoft acquisition of GitHub got me...
These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Practical Deep Learning with Rachel Thomas: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk: Practical Deep Learning with...
Every inch of sky’s got a star Every inch of skin’s got a scar (Everything Now, Arcade Fire) I think that a very good way to start with R...
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. Version 0.6-11 has important new features, notably support for Bayesian nonparametric mixture modeling, and more are...
In this post, I will illustrate the use of prediction intervals for the comparison of measurement methods. In the example, a new spectral method for measuring whole blood hemoglobin...
Many types of machine learning classifiers, not least commonly-used techniques like ensemble models and neural networks, are notoriously difficult to interpret. If the model produces a surprising label for...
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Throughout the last years I noticed the following happening with a number of people. One of those people was actually yours truely a few years back. Person is aware...
Have you ever wondered how you create or use Plotly (plotly.js) on Datazar? No? Well here it is anyway.Datazar’s live chart editor allows you to create custom D3js charts with...
INTRODUCTION With flexdashboard, you can easily create interactive dashboards for R. What is amazing about it is that with R Markdown, you can publish a group of related data...
You can catch a bit of the @rOpenSci 2018 Unconference experience at home w with this short-ish ‘splainer video on how to use the new middlechild package (https://github.com/ropenscilabs/middlechild) &...
Today I decided to create a new repository on GitHub where I am sharing code to do spreadsheet data manipulation in R.The first version of the repository and R...
I’ve been using keras and TensorFlow for a while now - and love its simplicity and straight-forward way to modeling. As part of the latest update to my Workshop...
How to Read in and Clean Your Facebook Data - I recently learned that you can download all of your Facebook data, so I decided to check...
After my series of post on classification algorithms, it’s time to get back to R codes, this time for quantile regression. Yes, I still want to get a better...
There's growing awareness that the data we collect, and in particular the variables we include as factors in our predictive models, can lead to unwanted bias in outcomes: from...
OverviewIn this post, I would like to introduce my new R package GLMMadaptive for fitting mixed-effects models for non-Gaussian grouped/clustered outcomes using marginal maximum likelihood.Admittedly, there is a number...
Updates I’ve made small updates to two of my R packages on CRAN: ggseas (seasonal adjustment on the fly for ggplot2 graphics) and Tcomp (tourism forecasting competition data). Neither...
R, Julia, Python – todays data scientists have the choice between numerous different programming languages, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Would it not be convenient to bring...
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