This occurrence of the bi-annual corruption of the space-time continuum (i.e. changing to/from standard/daylight time) in the U.S. caused me to make a slight change to the code from an older post. The daylight() function now auto-discovers the date and location information (via telize) from the ...

Thanks @mevers for raising the issue to me and his efforts in benchmarking clusterProfiler. He pointed out two issues: Read More: 2944 Words Totally

Statistical process control provides a mechanism for measuring, managing, and controlling processes. There are many different flavors of control charts, but if data are readily available, the X-Bar/R approach is often used. […]

We’ve just finished off a series of articles on some recent research results applying differential privacy to improve machine learning. Some of these results are pretty technical, so we thought it was worth working through concrete examples. And some of the original results are locked behind academic journal paywalls, ...

Data Community DC and District Data Labs are hosting a Natural Language Processing with R workshop on Saturday November 21st from 9am - 5pm. Register before November 7th for an early bird discount!

It might be too early to state anything solid, but the few polls prospecting the runoff election in Argentina seem to be telling two distinct histories. Hugo Haime and IPSOS suggest Daniel Scioli is going up while Elypsis and Polldata say he’s sinking as weeks go by. The last ...