Info, dates and topics of our five Autumn R Courses: from programming to data manipulation, from statistics to data mining, everything with R. The post R Courses - Autumn Term Calendar appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

This post was first published by original author Duncan Garmonsway and reproduced with his kind permission. This post reverse-engineers the Mango Solutions Data Science Radar using Programming (R) Visualisation (ggplot2) Data wrangling (dpylr/tidyr/etc.) Modelling (lm) Technology (embedded V8 javascript) Communication … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In this post we’ll try to replicate some of the charts created by the Federal Reserve which visualize some well known macroeconomic indicators. We’ll also showcase the new Plotly 4.0 syntax. Key Macroeconomic Indicators [crayon-577a78d381298688224087/] Monitory Policy Transmission [crayon-577a78d3812ab614491119/] Nominal and Real Fed Funds ... [Read more...]

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Want better colours for ggplot2? "Ggthemr" is an R package that provides new colour themes and also the specification of your own colour palettes. Change the look and feel of your ggplot2 plots in R with two quick commands! Beautiful figures await! [Read more...]

In today’s lesson we’ll continue to learn about linear mixed effects models (LMEM), which give us the power to account for multiple types of effects in a single model. This is Part 2 of a two part lesson. I’ll be taking for granted that you’ve completed Lesson 6, ... [Read more...]

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Once in a while I use AirBnB. There are a couple of features that I (intuitively) use to judge if an apartment is save to book; ratings, images of the flat and the user avatar. Apparently, these avatars play an important part in the overall service and usage of AirBnB. ... [Read more...]

Forest plots are often used in clinical trial reports to show differences in the estimated treatment effect(s) across various patient subgroups. See, for example a review. The page on Clinical Trials Safety Graphics includes a SAS code for a forest plot that depicts the hazard ratios for various patient ... [Read more...]

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Jeremy Yoder wrote a wrote a post on The Molecular Ecologist about plotting location data in ggplot. It is a very informative post. However, I disagree with one (minor) aesthetic choice. The species in his figure have different colors and shapes. I am ... [Read more...]

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We've shown a few times here how you can run R code on data in the cloud with Azure ML Studio, and even how to enable that code as a web service to be called from other applications. But what if you want to run code in a compiled language, ... [Read more...]

In my last post I had a first look (for me) at Estimated Household Income Inequality data from the University of Texas Inequality Project. These data came to my attention when Professor James K. Galbraith used them in his keynote presentation to the 2016 New Zealand Association of Economists conference. Some ... [Read more...]