2017 is bound to be an exciting year in Data Science. Here's DataCamp's list of conferences that we're most excited about in the new year. Whether you're an R user, a Python hacker, or just a general data science fan - you're sure to find a great confe... [Read more...]

Solution to Euler Problem 4: Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers. Continue reading → The post Euler Problem 4: Largest Palindromic Product appeared first on The Devil is in the Data. [Read more...]

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The startup package makes it easy to control your R startup processes and to share part of your startup settings with others (e.g. as a public Git repository) while keeping secret parts to yourself. Instead of having long and windy .Renviron and .Rprofile startup files, you can split them ... [Read more...]

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In response to a user’s request and after a short conversation with Carson Sievert (creator / maintainer of the plotly R package), I recently made a small tweak to TrelliscopeJS to make it very easy to create Trelliscope displays with interactive Plotly panels. A simple example is shown in this ... [Read more...]

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by Sean Lopp At RStudio, we work with many companies interested in scaling R. They typically want to know: How can R scale for big data or big computation? How can R scale for a growing team of data scientists? This post provides a framework for answering both questions. Scaling ... [Read more...]

by Alan Weaver, Advanced Analytics Specialist at Microsoft Very often data scientists and analysts require access to back-end resources on Azure. For example, they may need to start a virtual machine or resize a Hadoop cluster. This typically requires making a request to the IT department and patiently waiting. AzureSMR ... [Read more...]

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Where should you buy a house to get the most value for your money? Your first step might be to make a map, but spatial data can be intimidating in R because of the complicated objects it often lives in. Our new course Working with Geospatial Data in R ... [Read more...]

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Today I spent a few hours debugging a hang R process that left a zombie sh which so far suggests bug (race condition?) in R’s system2() call. Anyway, it soon turned out that the only way to see what’s happening with R is to use gdb, which I ... [Read more...]

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Analyzing a lot of datasets can be tedious. In my work, I often have to compute descriptive statistics, or plot some graphs for some variables for a lot of datasets. The variables in question have the same name accross the datasets but are measured for different years. As an example, ... [Read more...]

Reddit is a discussion forum website with many discussion rooms (“subreddits”) on different topics. Greenville, SC has its own subreddit. It might be of interest to see what kind of discussions take place. We can do this in a systematic way using t... [Read more...]

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Analyzing a lot of datasets can be tedious. In my work, I often have to compute descriptive statistics, or plot some graphs for some variables for a lot of datasets. The variables in question have the same name accross the datasets but are measured for different years. As an example, ... [Read more...]