November 2016

On the German Tank / Taxicab Problem

November 30, 2016 | Frank Portman

I always get giddy when I can apply real statistics and math to problems in my life. Recently, I had an opportunity to apply the ‘Taxicab Problem’ to something that came up at work. Given that I work for a ridesharing platform and I was quite literally counting “taxis” (or ... [Read more...]

The hourly heatmap with ggplot2

November 30, 2016 | HighlandR

a quick follow up to my last post - I’ve had a few folk get in touch following my last post, all commenting on the last plot : Most of these enquiries went along the following lines: “I hadn’t thought of doing that. It looks really ...
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The hourly heatmap with ggplot2

November 30, 2016 | HighlandR

a quick follow up to my last post - I’ve had a few folk get in touch following my last post, all commenting on the last plot : Most of these enquiries went along the following lines: “I hadn’t thought of doing that. It looks really ... [Read more...]

Euler Problem 1: Multiples of 3 or 5

November 30, 2016 | Peter Prevos

Solutions to Euler Problem 1 in the R language for statistical computing. This problem asks to find the sum of the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. Continue reading → The post Euler Problem 1: Multiples of 3 or 5 appeared first on The Devil is in the Data. [Read more...]

Frequency and chi-square test for independence Exercises

November 30, 2016 | Hasan Imtiaz

In this exercise, we cover some basics on frequency tables. We also briefly look at chi-square test for independence to find relationships of two variables. Before proceeding, it might be helpful to look over the help pages for the table, summary, and margin.table functions. Answers to the exercises are ... [Read more...]

Missing Values, Data Science and R

November 30, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert One great advantages of working in R is the quantity and sophistication of the statistical functions and techniques available. For example, R’s quantile() function allows you to select one of the nine different methods for computing quantiles. Who would have thought there could be so many ... [Read more...]

Jupyter And R Markdown: Notebooks With R

November 30, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

When working on data science problems, you might want to set up an interactive environment to work and share your code for a project with others. You can easily set this up with a notebook.  In other cases, you’ll just want to communicate about t... [Read more...]

Microsoft R Open 3.3.2 now available

November 30, 2016 | David Smith

Microsoft R Open 3.3.2, Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R language engine to version 3.3.2, adds new bundled packages and updates others, and upgrades the Intel Math Kernel Libraries. The updated R 3.3.2 engine includes some performance ... [Read more...]

How to Summarize a Data Frame by Groups in R

November 30, 2016 | Douglas E Rice

Sometimes, when you’re analyzing a data set and you want to get a complete picture of it, you want calculate the metrics on all the observations for each variable. Let’s say, for example, that you run a small zoo and want to inventory the cost of all your ...
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satRday in Cape Town (from Exegetic Analytics)

November 30, 2016 | Andrew Collier

The second satRday (and first satRday on African soil) will happen in Cape Town on 18 August 2017. It’s going to be a one day celebration of R. We have a trio of phenomenal keynote speakers (Hilary Parker, Jenny Bryan and Julia Silge) who will be giving inspiring talks at the ... [Read more...]

Package ggguitar on CRAN

November 30, 2016 | C

The initial release of ggguitar is available on CRAN!  This package allows you to create guitar tablature in the style of ggplot2.  As a quick example, the C Major chord shown above can be created as follows.library(ggguitar)C_M -__tablature('C Major', C_M)The tablature function ...
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ggplot2: multiple legends for the same aesthetic

November 30, 2016 | Nicola Sturaro

When working with ggplot2 you don't have to care about legend, it is automatically produced according to the mapped aesthetics. But producing separate legends for the same aesthetic is not easy. This article proposes a solution! The post ggplot2: multiple legends for the same aesthetic appeared first on Quantide - ... [Read more...]
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