This note discusses the results of this project, which collects legislative data from several European parliaments (plus Israel). The project is coded in R, which has had consequences on its development. The project In a nutshell, the parlnet project scrapes private bills from 20 national parliaments, and then converts the sponsorship ... [Read more...]

This note explains how to use an application launcher along with text expansion and shell commands to accomplish a few specific tasks that can be useful to R users. Software requirements This note assumes that you are equipped with an application launcher that supports text expansion and can process shell ... [Read more...]

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This is the second part of the Mastering R plot series. The standard plot function in R allows extensive tuning of every element being plotted. There are, however, many possible ways and the standard help file are hard to grasp at the beginning. In this article we will see how ... [Read more...]

What has Kaggle learned from 2 million machine learning models? Anthony Goldbloom, founder and CEO... [Read more...]

This is the sequel to the previous report “issues specific to cp932 locale, Japanese Shift-JIS, on Windows“.  In this report, I will dig the issues deeper to find out what … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This note documents the a small but growing microverse of R packages on CRAN to produce various forms of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), which are a kind of modelling strategy akin to logistic regression for dyadic data. The starting point: ergm The gravitational centre of the ERGM microverse is ... [Read more...]

The next DataPhilly meetup will feature a medley of machine-learning talks, including an Intro to ML from yours truly. Check out the speakers list and be sure to RSVP. Hope to see you there! Thursday, February 18, 2016 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Speakers: Corey Chivers Randy Olson Austin Rochford Corey Chivers (Penn Medicine) ... [Read more...]

We had a fantastic turnout to last week's webinar, Introduction to Microsoft R Open. If you missed it, you can watch the replay below. In the talk, I gives some background on the R language and its applications, describe the performance and reproducibility benefits of Microsoft R Open, and give ... [Read more...]

This is a guest post from VP Nagraj, a data scientist embedded within UVA’s Health Sciences Library, who runs our Data Analysis Support Hub (DASH) service.Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the first ever Shiny Develope... [Read more...]

This is a guest post from VP Nagraj, a data scientist embedded within UVA’s Health Sciences Library, who runs our Data Analysis Support Hub (DASH) service.Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the first ever Shiny Developer Conference hosted by RStudio at Stanford ... [Read more...]

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So I finally got round to pushing a revised (and typo corrected!) version of Wrangling F1 Data With R: A Data Junkie’s Guide, that also includes a handful of new section and chapters, including descriptions of how to detect undercuts, the new style race history chart that shows the ... [Read more...]

Eric Persson released yesterday a new WHO R package which allows easy access to the World Health Organization’s data API. He’s also done a nice vignette introducing its use. I had a play and found it was easy access to some interesting data. Some time down the track ... [Read more...]

The knitr/R markdown system is a great way to organize reports and analyses. However, the built-in ones (that come with RStudio/the rmarkdown package) rely on Bootstrap and also use jQuery. There’s nothing wrong with that, but the generated standalone HTML documents (which are a great way to ... [Read more...]

A common issue when dealing with more than a few thousand data points is how to effectively make scatterplots. There is a lot of research on this topic that I won’t go into in any detail, but in this post I’ll just point out a few features that ... [Read more...]

I have been working with a data set on causes of death in my adopted home state of Utah for a little while now, and I had been struggling with the best way to visualize it. This week, David Robinson released the gganimate package to create animated ggplot2 plots and ... [Read more...]

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