December 2014

How to conduct a tombola with R

December 21, 2014 | Simon Munzert

Two weeks ago, we announced to raffle off three hardcover versions of our ADCR book among all followers of our Twitter account @RDataCollection. Tomorrow is closing day, so it is high time to present the drawing procedure, which, as a matter of course, is conducted with R. Connecting with Twitter ... [Read more...]

Winning a Marathon (Part 2)

December 21, 2014 | jlebeau

In a previous post I looked at a data set published by the AARRS that provides a lot of data on marathons around the world and specifically the winning times of every* race.  After spending a bit more time with the data there are a few more things... [Read more...]

Merry Christmas

December 21, 2014 | Wingfeet

Based on The DO loop, since I wanted a fractal Christmas tree and there is no point in inventing what has been made already. Besides, this is not the first time this year that I used R to do what has been done in SAS.Code# http://blogs.sas.com/... [Read more...]

NeuralNetTools 1.0.0 now on CRAN

December 20, 2014 | beckmw

After successfully navigating the perilous path of CRAN submission, I’m pleased to announce that NeuralNetTools is now available!  From the description file, the package provides visualization and analysis tools to aid in the interpretation of neural networks, including functions for plotting, variable importance, and sensitivity analyses. I’ve written ...
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digest 0.6.7

December 20, 2014 | Thinking inside the box

Release 0.6.7 of digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. Jim Hester was at it again and added murmurHash. I cleaned up several sets of pedantic warnings in some of the source files, updated the test reference out, and that forms version 0.6.7. C... [Read more...]

Charting time series data with dygraphs in R and Python

December 19, 2014 | Kyle Walker

This past week, the good people at RStudio advertised over Twitter the release of htmlwidgets for R, a project in collaboration with rCharts wizards Ramnath Vaidyanathan and Kenton Russell. The packages showcased are incredible; I was particularly intrigued by the dygraphs package, which creates interactive time-series charts. Aside from maps, ... [Read more...]

A small introduction to the ROCR package

December 19, 2014 | strictlystat

I've been doing some classification with logistic regression in brain imaging recently. I have been using the ROCR package, which is helpful at estimating performance measures and plotting these measures over a range of cutoffs. The prediction and performance functions are the workhorses of most of the analyses in ROCR ...
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Introduction to R Chapter for IFSWR Book

December 19, 2014 | dogle

I have uploaded a draft of Chapter 1 — A Very Brief Introduction to R — to Introduction to Fisheries Science with R book.  This chapter is very bare bones as there are many great introductions to R on the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

A list of awesome statistics resources in 2014

December 19, 2014 | David Smith

Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Professor (and presenter of Data Analysis at Coursera) Jeff Leek has published his list of awesome things other people did in 2014. It's well worth following the links in his 38 entries, where you'll find a wealth of useful resources in teaching, statistics, data science, and data visualization. Many ... [Read more...]

50 years of Christmas at the Windsors

December 19, 2014 | Dominic Nyhuis

It is that time of year again: Truckloads of lights are dumped into store windows, people scramble to get their Christmas shopping done, and it is becoming increasingly unbearable to listen to the radio. Of course, the most important element of the season is still ahead of us – all across ... [Read more...]

The Geometry of Classifiers

December 18, 2014 | Nina Zumel

As John mentioned in his last post, we have been quite interested in the recent study by Fernandez-Delgado, et.al., “Do we Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems?” (the “DWN study” for short), which evaluated 179 popular implementations of common classification algorithms over 120 or so data sets, ... [Read more...]

Wide Receiver Gold Mining -Week 16

December 18, 2014 | Michael Griebe

The graph below summarizes the projections from a variety of sources. This week’s summary includes projections from: Fantasy Football Sharks, CBS’s Jamey Eisenberg, Fantasy Football Today, CBS’s Dave Richard, ESPN,[...] The post Wide Receiver Gold Mining -Week 16 appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

My Commonly Done ggplot2 graphs: Part 2

December 18, 2014 | strictlystat

In my last post I described some of my commonly done ggplot2 graphs. It seems as though some people are interested in these, so I was going to follow this up with other plots I make frequently. Scatterplot colored by continuous variable The setup of the data for the scatterplots ...
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Influence.ME now supports sampling weights

December 18, 2014 | Rense Nieuwenhuis

Influence.ME is an R package that helps detecting influential cases in multilevel regression models. It has been around for a while now, and recent changes in lme4 broke the functionality of using influence.ME with sampling weights. Thanks to a kind contribution of some code by user Jennifer Bufford, ... [Read more...]
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