August 2016

nzcensus on GitHub

August 3, 2016 | Peter's stats stuff - R

Introduction A few months back the first, pre-CRAN versions of my nzelect package included some data from the New Zealand Census 2013. As noted in my last post, I’ve now split this into a separate nzcensus package, for ease of development and maint... [Read more...]

MXNet Pascal Titan X benchmark

August 3, 2016 | DMLC

#MXNet Pascal Titan X benchmark Introduction MXNet (http://mxnet.dmlc.ml) team has received a Pascal Titan X (2016 new version) from NVIDIA, and has benchmarked this card on popular deep learning networks in MXNet, following the deepmark protocol. T...
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Desktop in the Cloud

August 2, 2016 | adamleerich

I just wanted to share the good experience I have had with creating a virtual personal desktop on Paperspace. A few months ago I started researching whether there was anyone out there providing this service. Paperspace came up in the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

digest 0.6.10

August 2, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release, now at version number 0.6.10, of the digest package is now on CRAN. I also just prepared the Debian upload. This release, just like the previous one, is once again the work mostly of external contributors. Michel Lang added length chec... [Read more...]

Stock prices analysis part 2 exercises

August 2, 2016 | Miodrag Sljukic

This is the second part of the exercises dedicated to analysis of stock prices. In this part we will provide exercises for plotting, fitting linear model and predicting stock prices. You dont need to be an expert stock’s trader in order to understand the examples, but you should go ... [Read more...]

using meshes for MeSH Enrichment Analysis

August 2, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine) controlled vocabulary used to manually index articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH is comprehensive life science vocabulary. MeSH has 19 categories and MeSH.db contains 16 of them. That is: Abbreviation Category A Anatomy B Organisms C Diseases D Chemicals ...
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using clusterProfiler for MeSH Enrichment Analysis

August 2, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine) controlled vocabulary used to manually index articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH is comprehensive life science vocabulary. MeSH has 19 categories and MeSH.db contains 16 of them. That is: Abbreviation Category A Anatomy B Organisms C Diseases D Chemicals ...
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ROC Curves in Two Lines of R Code

August 2, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Bob Horton, Microsoft Data Scientist ROC curves are commonly used to characterize the sensitivity/specificity tradeoffs for a binary classifier. Most machine learning classifiers produce real-valued scores that correspond with the strength of the prediction that a given case is positive. Turning these real-valued scores into yes or no ... [Read more...]

Web Scraping and “invalid multibyte string”

August 2, 2016 | Andrew Collier

A couple of my collaborators have had trouble using read_html() from the readr package to access this Wikipedia page. Specifically they have been getting errors like this: Since I couldn’t reproduce these errors on my machine it appeared to be something relating to their particular machine setup. Looking ... [Read more...]
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