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The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute has weather information by day for a number of Dutch stations. In this post I want to use those data for a practical problem: when should I switch to winter tires? (or is that snow tires? In any case nails... [Read more...]

One day, I am looking for R packages that can analyze PPI and after searching, I found the ppiPre package in CRAN. The function of this package is not impressive, and I already knew some related works, including http://intscore.molgen.mpg.de/. The authors of this webserver contacted me ... [Read more...]

OBS: There is a version in portuguese. Handwritten digit recognition task was one of first great successes of machine learning […] The post Handwritten digit recognition – Part1 appeared first on Flavio Barros . [Read more...]

As promised, here are the slides and notes from my DSDC talklet on strategies for incorporating text data into the feature set of a predictive model. Slides Notes github Thanks to Harlan for asking, and to Dan and David for... [Read more...]

Following a discussion on Gelman's blog, I was playing around with simulating scientists looking for significant effects. Suppose each of 1000 scientists run 200 experiments in their lifetime, and suppose that 20% of the experiments are such that the n... [Read more...]

Last week, I attended a "Flower Fest" where I had the opportunity to admire several of the most beautiful and awarded flowers, orchids, and decoration plants. Surprisingly, though, I never had thought of flowers like fractals the way I did this time. Fractals attract lots of interest, especially from mathematicians ... [Read more...]

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Mike Cavaretta is Ford Motor Company’s Chief Data Scientist, and was tasked by the incoming CEO Alan Mulally to help change the culture so that "important decisions within the company had to be based on data". In a feature article at Dataconomy, he reveals that R is a big ... [Read more...]

This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The syllabus includes: linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection and regularization methods (ridge and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This week my research group discussed Adrian Raftery’s recent paper on “Use and Communication of Probabilistic Forecasts” which provides a fascinating but brief survey of some of his work on modelling and communicating uncertain futures. Coincidentally, today I was also sent a copy of David Spiegelhalter’s paper on “... [Read more...]

Have you tried synchronizing R processes? I did and it wasn’t straightforward. In fact, I ended up creating a new package – flock. One of the improvements I did not too long ago to my R back-testing infrastructure was to start using a database to store the results. This way ... [Read more...]

Today's exercise in another easy one, and is inspired by a question from Ariel Marcy of University of Queensland.Exercise 5 - How to extract classifiers from names of specimens.Well-organised morphometricians will have a consistent naming system for th... [Read more...]

Last week I attended a “Flower Festival” in Joinville, where I had opportunity to admire several of among the most beautiful and awarded flowers, orchids, and decoration plants. Surprisingly, though, I never had thought on flowers like fractals the way I did this time. Introduction Fractals attract lots of interest, ... [Read more...]

This is a guest post by Prasad Patil that answers the question: how to put a shape in the margin of an R plot? The help page for R's par() function is a somewhat impenetrable list of abbreviations that allow you to manipulate anything and everything in the plotting device. ... [Read more...]

Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.2 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.1.2 comes with some small changes and new features: New functions advanced.procD.lm()for statis... [Read more...]

Last week I ran a one-day workshop on RNA-seq data analysis in the UVA Health Sciences Library. I set up an AWS public EC2 image with all the necessary software installed. Participants logged into AWS, launched the image, and we kicked off the morning ... [Read more...]

At this meetup we’re fortunate to have RStudio’s lead developer Joe Cheng flying in from... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert We usually have a pretty good time at the monthly Bay Area useR Group (BARUG) meetings, but this month's meeting was a bit more of a party than usual. The very well connected PR team at Sqor Sports, our host company for the evening, secured San Francisco's ... [Read more...]