by Edward Ma and Vishrut Gupta (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) A few weeks ago, we revealed ddR (Distributed Data-structures in R), an exciting new project started by R-Core, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and others that provides a fresh new set of computational primitives for distributed and parallel computing in R. The package ... [Read more...]

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by Kate Ross-Smith, Mango Solutions @LaSystemistaria 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science.  I’m not sure I have one. I trained as a Design Engineer and then a Systems Engineer, and up until now I’ve worked … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Brian Mitchell, Mango Solutions Here at Mango we take testing very seriously and as the automated tester in the company I take it more seriously than most. Automated testing does exactly what it says on the tin, it allows … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The great thing about data science is that you can find data in almost every subject and try out new methods independent of the content. I wanted to explore some natural language processing packages and techniques and was looking for interesting textual data beyond Twittr dumps and R mailing list ... [Read more...]

The second update to the Rblpapi package (since the initial CRAN upload in August) is now available. Rblpapi connects R to the Bloomberg system, giving access to a truly vast array of time series data and custom calculations. This release brings a new subscribe() function for real-time data, written by ... [Read more...]

I started learning the statistical programming language R this past summer, and discovering Hadley Wickham’s data visualization package ggplot2 has been a joy and a revelation. When I think back to how I made all the plots for my astronomy dissertation in the early 2000s (COUGH SUPERMONGO COUGH), I ... [Read more...]

Karl Broman has written a nice blog post to recommend writing unit tests for R packages. Here are a few more pointers on how to write these tests. I was introduced to unit tests by Barret Schloerke, who asked me to write some for the network plotting functions that I ... [Read more...]

Since 2000, I’ve been working on R/qtl, an R package for mapping the genetic loci (called quantitative trait loci, QTL) that contribute to variation in quantitative traits in experimental crosses. The Bioinformatics paper about it is my most cited; also see my 2014 JORS paper, “Fourteen years of R/qtl: ... [Read more...]

Maarten Hermans is a sociologist and researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium and an avid hiker. He uses an Android app to track his location and elevation on his hikes, which means he can download his hike data in GPS Exchange Format. With this data and a few R packages, ... [Read more...]

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This tutorial was originally developed for the STAT545 course at UBC, but I decided to publish it shortly afterwards so that more people can benefit from it Shiny is a package from RStudio that can be used to build interactive web pages with R. While that may sound scary because ... [Read more...]

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by Steph Locke, Mango Solutions @SteffLocke Steph Locke Data Science Radar – Nov 2015 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science I started off as a Product Analyst doing a bit of this, a bit of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

After nearly 10 month of work, Max(@nierhoff) and I are really happy to announce that our new book Mastering RStudio – Develop, Communicate, and Collaborate with R was just published. This book is aimed at R developers and analysts who wish to do R statistical development while taking advantage of RStudio´... [Read more...]

Take a look at my short video presentation my R package cricketr Also see 1. Sixer – R package cricketr’s new Shiny Avatar 2. Literacy in India : A deepR dive. 3.  Natural Language Processing: What would Shakespeare say? 4. Revisiting crimes against women in India 5. Dabbling with Weiner filter with OpenCV 6.  A method […] [Read more...]

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I would like to call this the best second book on R, except that I wouldn’t know what the first one would be. I learned R from classes and tutorials about 10 years ago, used it on my PhD and four articles, and use it today on a daily basis ... [Read more...]

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