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A new release 0.1.0 of the RPushbullet package (interfacing the neat Pushbullet service) landed on CRAN today. It brings a number of goodies relative to the first release 0.0.2 of a few months ago: pushing of files is now supported thanks to a nice ... [Read more...]

So I’ve been messing around with Shiny for a year or so now. It’s great tool and getting greater. the good: capability to rapidly build an interactive visualization with the full universe of R packages to choose from for the computation engine and visualization options. ability to code ... [Read more...]

The Fantasy Football Analytics blog shares these 14 reasons why R is better than Excel for data analysis: More powerful data manipulation capabilities Easier automation Faster computation It reads any type of data Easier project organization It supports larger data sets Reproducibility (important for detecting errors) Easier to find and fix ... [Read more...]

Our topics this week seem unrelated, but in an effort to bridge the two another random project – make website in R for these SVGs of Portland Vector Bridges result: Portland Bridges in SVGcode: R to make simple siteEkholm decomposition SelectionShare & TimingShare | Masterfully Written by Delightfully Responsive Author Popular Mutual Funds ... [Read more...]

A week ago, my boss at Quantide, Andrea Spanò, publishe [...] [Read more...]

Taking the very 'waterfall graph' code posted by Robert Grant I have added some features (resistance Overall I find the graphs produced from this code to be beautiful and fascinating though I am not sure if I would really use them as a form of data exp... [Read more...]

I’m guessing here, but yesterday’s post Responsive SVG in Your RStudio Browser might have inspired some “but,…)”s, “yes plus I need”s, “what the %____% with the pipe”s, etc.  I’ll attempt to address a couple of these in this quick post. First, if you don’t ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert In a recent post I talked about the information that can be developed by fitting a Tweedie GLM to a 143 million record version of the airlines data set. Since I started working with them about a year or so ago, I now see Tweedie models everywhere. Basically, ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. Norm Matloff argues that T-tests shouldn't be part of the Statistics curriculum and questions the "star system" for p-values in R. A nice video introduction to the dplyr package and the %__% operator, presented ... [Read more...]

Together with the key people behind the data.table package, Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan,  DataCamp developed a brand new interactive course to bring your data analysis skillset up to date with the essentials of the powerful data.table package. Learn more…  The popularity of the data.table package is ... [Read more...]

For this post, I would like to give my sincere thanks to Mr. Helmuth Vollmeier, for providing the long history … Continue reading → [Read more...]

For those readers who are unaware, SVG is absolutely amazing, and if you need some convincing see this 2009 paper/talk from David Dailey Why is SVG Going to Be REALLY BIG?  Most R users should be very well acquainted with graphics and plots magically ... [Read more...]

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I feel like a sculptor who has been using the same metal tools for the last four years and happened to have looked at my comrades and found them sporting new, sleek electric tools. Suddenly all of the hard work put into maintaining and adapting my meta... [Read more...]

dplyr is a package for efficient data manipulation based on the grammar of data manipulation by Hadley Wickham. This package is efficient in manipulating data frames, data tables, databases and more. Dr. Dennis Murphy gave an interactive presentation of the elements that make dplyr the go-to package for data munging ... [Read more...]

Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to “generate” hurricanes—which was tweaked a bit by Robert Grant (@robertstats)—and Gaston Sanchez‘s Visualizing Hurricane ... [Read more...]

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I'll produce predictions for US car sales by manufacture every month. There are already several blogs that describe the industry and sales that do a great job. Autoblog by the Numbers and Counting Cars are some to mention. Unli... [Read more...]