by Michele Usuelli Microsoft Data Scientist Azure Machine Learning Studio is a drag-and-drop tool to deploy data-driven solutions. It contains pre-built items including data preparation tools and Machine Learning algorithms. In addition, it allows to include R and Python custom scripts. In order to build powerful R tools, you might ... [Read more...]

The eoda R-Academy course “R in Live Systems” teaches key aspects of using R in a productive business environment with many practical examples from 16th to 17th November 2015 in Kassel, Germany. The professional use of R indicates special requirements in terms of reproducibility, compatibility, teamwork, load distribution and rights management. ... [Read more...]

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Pi to 1000 places connectedIdea:In the past i have often observed circular plots (cant find a technical name) in 1) New York times[1] to display human genome data2) Migration patterns among humans[2]3) to display import and export data (Bloomberg ... [Read more...]

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This blog post is a little late; I wanted to get it out sooner. As new students have flooded the halls for the new terms at JHU Biostat, I figured I would give some recommendations to our new students, and biostatistics students in general. Some of these things may be ... [Read more...]

… We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave. … That’s what it feels like sometimes when trying to share code snippets on Slack. Sure, it’s easy to drop some code on there; but getting it out? Caveat Coder That ... [Read more...]

Recently my friend Andrew Geisler released a new version of the GAR package. Like other similar packages, the GAR package is designed to help you retrieve data from Google Analytics using R. But with... [Read more...]

Recently my friend Andrew Geisler released a new version of the GAR package. Like other similar packages, the GAR package is designed to help you retrieve data from Google Analytics using R. But with some new features.I have been playing a bit with the... [Read more...]

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I noticed that a major grievance of many students enrolled in MIT‘s latest edX course on development policy (Foundations of Development Policy: Advanced Development Economics) was that there wasn’t enough done to get them going with the R assignments. I have posted the R code for the homework (... [Read more...]

Powerpoint is a powerful application for creating presentations, and allows you to include all sorts of text, pictures, animations and interactivity to create a compelling story. Most of the time you'll use the Powerpoint application to create slides, but if you want to include data and/or charts in your ... [Read more...]

Mango Solutions are organising and running the EARL (Effective Applications of the R Language)  Conference in Boston on 2-4 November 2015.  This Conference is for all users, enthusiasts and beginners of the R programming language.  Following on from the very successful London EARL … Continue reading → [Read more...]

“The quantmod package for R is designed to assist the quantitative trader in the development, testing, and deployment of statistically based trading models.” It is a rapid prototyping environment where enthusiasts can explore various technical indicators with minimum effort. It offers charting facilities that is not available elsewhere in R. ... [Read more...]

So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. Now it is one year later ... [Read more...]

So one year ago, I posted a reference to the Seinfeld Streak as used in an even earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. Now it is one year later ... [Read more...]

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For an assignment I was asked to develop a visual ‘data product’ that informed decisions on video game ratings taking as an indicator their ranking on the MetaCritic site. I decided to use RStudio’s Shiny package to develop it as a visual product and then publish it to shinyapps.... [Read more...]

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