January 2016

R and education: a survey on the use of R in education

January 14, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

Main takeaways from the survey on R in education There is a need to train students in R since a large majority of respondents that use R professionally expect its market share to further increase. Large interest from both academics and students in online interactive R and statistics courses. Highest ... [Read more...]

Mini AI app using TensorFlow and Shiny

January 14, 2016 | Yuki Katoh

tl;dr Simple image recognition app using TensorFlow and Shiny About My weekend was full of deep learning and AI programming so as a milestone I made a simple image recognition app that: Takes an image input uploaded to Shiny UI Performs ... [Read more...]

Mini AI app using TensorFlow and Shiny

January 14, 2016 | Yuki Katoh

tr;dr Simple image recognition app using TensorFlow and Shiny About My weekend was full of deep learning and AI programming so as a milestone I made a simple image recognition app that: Takes an image input uploaded to Shiny UI Performs image recognition using TensorFlow Plots detected objects and ... [Read more...]

Talk to Upstate Data Science Group on Caret

January 14, 2016 | John Johnson

Last night I gave an introduction and demo of the caret R package to the Upstate Data Science group, meeting at Furman University. It was fairly well attended (around 20 people), and well received.It was great to get out of my own comfort zone a bit (since graduate school, I've ... [Read more...]

New Data Sources for R

January 14, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert Over the past few months, a number of new CRAN packages have appeared that make it easier for R users to gain access to curated data. Most of these provide interfaces to a RESTful API written by the data publishers while a few just wrap the data ... [Read more...]

rstanarm and more!

January 14, 2016 | andrew

Ben Goodrich writes: The rstanarm R package, which has been mentioned several times on stan-users, is now available in binary form on CRAN mirrors (unless you are using an old version of R and / or an old version of OSX). It is an R package that comes with a few ...
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Power analysis for default Bayesian t-tests

January 14, 2016 | Daniel Lakens

One important benefit of Bayesian statistics is that you can provide relative support for the null hypothesis. When the null hypothesis is true, p-values will forever randomly wander between 0 and 1, but a Bayes factor has consistency (Rouder, Speckman, Sun, Morey, & Iverson, 2009), which means that as the sample size increases, the ...
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Power analysis for default Bayesian t-tests

January 14, 2016 | Daniel Lakens

One important benefit of Bayesian statistics is that you can provide relative support for the null hypothesis. When the null hypothesis is true, p-values will forever randomly wander between 0 and 1, but a Bayes factor has consistency (Rouder, Speckman, Sun, Morey, & Iverson, 2009), which means that as the sample size increases, the ...
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Philip Glass Composition and Exploding Boxplot

January 14, 2016 | jlebeau

This post will highlight a couple of my favorite things.  R programming and composer Philip Glass.  For those of you not familiar with his works, he basically pioneered the "minimalist" style of piano playing.  He has been writing and performing music since the 60s, and his pieces are still heard ... [Read more...]

Presenting Highcharter

January 13, 2016 | Joshua Kunst

After a lot of documentation, a lot of R CMD checks and a lot of patience from CRAN people I'm happy to anonounce highcharter v0.1.0: A(nother) wrapper for Highcharts charting library. Now it's easy make a chart like this. Do you want to know how? I like Highcharts. It ...
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