By Ava Yang Background Ever since I started working remotely, some friends suggested “Why not work as usual as you travel across China, instead of staying in Shanghai?” Many cool people have practiced the lifestyle, but most of the time … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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When deciding how to compare players in fantasy football, managers have an important decision: whether to compare players with rankings or projections.  In this article, we compare the accuracy of[...] The post Which are More Accurate: Fantasy Football Rankings or Projections? appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

For being in RSiteCatalyst retirement, I’m ending up working on more functionality lately ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Here are the changes for RSiteCatalyst 1.4.8, which should be available on CRAN shortly: Segment Stacking RSiteCatalyst now has the ability to take multiple values in the segment.id keyword for the Queue* functions. This functionality was ... [Read more...]

As part of my never-ending quest to deploy documentation better, I’ve made yet another tweak to my scripts that deploy R vignettes or Rmarkdown documents to the gh-pages branch of my github repositories via Travis-CI. The script from Robert Flight that’s provided the basis for most of this ... [Read more...]

For being in RSiteCatalyst retirement, I’m ending up working on more functionality lately ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Here are the changes for RSiteCatalyst 1.4.8, which should be available on CRAN shortly: Segment Stacking RSiteCatalyst now has the ability to... [Read more...]

One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with insta... [Read more...]

One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with install.packages("pacman"). Out ... [Read more...]

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Amending plots with easy to remember syntax - I love ggplot2, but I struggle to remember some of the specific syntax I need to get my plots looking the way I want, especially those relating to making tweaks in the theme settings. Two of my m... [Read more...]

Amending plots with easy to remember syntax - I love ggplot2, but I struggle to remember some of the specific syntax I need to get my plots looking the way I want, especially those relating to making tweaks in the theme settings. Two of my m... [Read more...]

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Motivation This post is the second in a series that make up my entry in Ari Lamstein’s R Election Analysis Contest, Yesterday I introduced the nzelect R package from a user perspective. Today I’m writing about how the build of that package works. This might be of interest ... [Read more...]

In this post we’ll focus on showcasing Plotly’s WebGL capabilities by charting financial portfolios using an R package called PortfolioAnalytics. The package is a generic portfolo optimization framework developed by folks at the University of Washington and Brian Peterson (of the PerformanceAnalytics fame). You can see the vignette ... [Read more...]