2016

Raccoon | Ch. 2.1 – T-test, Anova: 1-sample t-test

October 27, 2016 | Quantide

Raccoon is a free web-book about Statistical Models with R. It's the collection of twenty years of notes, exercises and concepts working with statistics and R. This is the first section of the second chapter, about 1-sample t-test. The post Raccoon | Ch. 2.1 – T-test, Anova: 1-sample t-test appeared first on Quantide ... [Read more...]

mapmate 0.0.2

October 26, 2016 | Matt Leonawicz

mapmate is an R package for map- and globe-based data animation pre-production. Specifically, mapmate functions are used to generate and save to disk a series of global map graphics that make up a still image sequence, which can then be used in video editing and rendering software of the user’... [Read more...]

Introducing R-hub, the R package builder service

October 26, 2016 | David Smith

If you're developing a package for R to share with others — on CRAN, say — you'll want to make sure it works for others. That means testing it on various platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and all the versions thereof), and on various versions of R (current, past, and future). But it's ... [Read more...]

satRday Cape Town: Call for Submissions

October 26, 2016 | Andrew Collier

satRday Cape Town will happen on 18 February 2017 at Workshop 17, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa. Keynotes and Workshops We have a trio of fantastic keynote speakers: Hilary Parker, Jennifer Bryan and Julia Silge, who’ll be dazzling you on the day as well as presenting workshops on the two ... [Read more...]

September Package Picks

October 26, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert September was a bit of a slow month for new R packages. Only 96 new packages showed up un CRAN. Nevertheless, I have picked out 23 for special mention which I have listed in 5 categories. I used the same selection criteria as I described in the post for August ... [Read more...]

Introduction to R : A 12 month Air Quality Plot

October 26, 2016 | Kevin

Here is my completed visualization analysis of the year 2015 using R and ggplot. I also experimented with the ggExtra package to see what additional information it would give. The density plot on the right margin helps to point out that the most common 2.5AQI was between 10 and 100.   As you can ... [Read more...]

A Full Integration of XGBoost and Apache Spark

October 26, 2016 | DMLC

Introduction On March 2016, we released the first version of XGBoost4J, which is a set of packages providing Java/Scala interfaces of XGBoost and the integration with prevalent JVM-based distributed data processing platforms, like Spark/Flink. The integrations with Spark/Flink, a.k.a. XGBoost4J-Spark and XGBoost-Flink, receive the ...
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Rblpapi 0.3.5

October 25, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This is the sixth rel... [Read more...]

7th MilanoR meeting + talks live streaming

October 25, 2016 | Mic

On 27th of October I’m going to attend the 7th MilanoR meeting featuring the following two talks: 1. Interactive big data analysis with R: SparkR and MongoDB: a friendly walkthrough  by  Thimoty Barbieri and Marco Biglieri 2. Power consumption prediction based on statistical learning techniques by Davide Pandini This is my ... [Read more...]

Sharing our R Programs — With Style

October 25, 2016 | Guest Blogger

by Graham Williams, Director of Data Science, Microsoft Programming is an art and a way we express ourselves. As we write our programs we should keep in mind that someone else is very likely to be reading it. We can facilitate the accessibility of our programs through a clear presentation ... [Read more...]

Mini R Quizzes

October 25, 2016 | Marcin Kosiński

Data Science is sometimes a stressful and responsible job… so we spontaneously organize mini R quizzes in our R team at the company! Chaining R packages One of my favourite fast 5-minutes long R game is chaining R packages. One person says the nam... [Read more...]
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