by Bob Horton, Microsoft Senior Data Scientist Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are a popular way to visualize the tradeoffs between sensitivitiy and specificity in a binary classifier. In an earlier post, I described a simple “turtle’s eye view” of these plots: a classifier is used to sort cases ... [Read more...]

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Reading data from google sheets into R is something you imagine should be really simple, but often is anything but. However, package googlesheets goes a long way to solving this problem. Let’s crack on with an example. First, install the software: install.packages("googlesheets") We then need an example ... [Read more...]

Microsoft, in collaboration with Quantide, is offering a one-day live course in Milano: a wide overview of R as a data science tool, in a free class, open to everybody. The post My first date with R - Free live class in Milano appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

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Geospatial data - data embedded in a spatial context - is used across disciplines, whether it be history, biology, business, tech, public health, etc. Along with community contributors, we're working on a suite of tools to make working with spatial data in R as easy as possible. If you're not ... [Read more...]

In the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a flurry of visualizations of global sea ice extent on social media. If you’re like me, and curious to see what the data look like yourself, here’s a bit of R code to fetch and visualize the most recent ... [Read more...]

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Scientists spend a lot of time “munging” data. Finding, cleaning, and managing datasets can take up the majority of the time it takes to complete an analysis. Tools that make the munging process easier can save scientists a lot of time. We are tackling a small part of this problem ... [Read more...]

Scientists spend a lot of time “munging” data. Finding, cleaning, and managing datasets can take up the majority of the time it takes to complete an analysis. Tools that make the munging process easier can save scientists a lot of time. We are tackling a small part of this problem ... [Read more...]

I am very pleased to announce the first release of the ggforce package. ggforce is a general ggplot2 extension package in the same vein as ggalt with no overarching goal other than to provide additional functionality to the ggplot2 universe. The inc... [Read more...]

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Descriptive Analytics is the examination of data or content, usually manually performed, to answer the question “What happened?”. In order to be able to solve this set of exercises you should have solved the part 0, part 1, part 2 ,and part 3 of this series but also you should run this script which ... [Read more...]

The often demand in the biostatistical research is to group patients depending on explanatory variables that are continuous. In some cases the requirement is to test overall survival of the subjects that suffer on a mutation in specific gene and have ... [Read more...]

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