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Following a request from one of the reviewers of our chapter Likelihood-free model choice, I tried to run EP-ABC on a toy problem and to compare it with the outcome of a random forest ABC. Literally starting from scratch, namely from the description found in Simon and Nicolas’ JASA paper.  ... [Read more...]

Recently a few people in my membership site have asked me the following question: How can I get good at R? This has come up enough... The post How to “get good at R” appeared first on AriLamstein.com. [Read more...]

With the release of Plotly 4.0 using the pipe %__% operator is a lot more intuitive when using plot_ly(). Quick Introduction For those new to the pipe operator from the magrittr package here’s a quick introduction. In essence, the pipe operator takes the argument on the left hand side of ... [Read more...]

I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, ev... [Read more...]

I’d like to share some tips and recommendations on building htmlwidgets, based on my own learning experience while creating timevis. These tips are mostly concerned with making your htmlwidget more useful and user friendly. In this post, ev... [Read more...]

by Srini Kumar, Director of Data Science at Microsoft We tend to think of R and other such ML tools only in the context of the workplace, to do “weighty” things aimed at saving millions. A little judicious use of R may help us hugely in our personal lives too. ... [Read more...]

RServe offers a number of configuration options that can come in handy when working with R inside Tableau but they are not captured in detail in RServe’s documentation. Let’s talk about a few. How can I start RServe with a configuration file in a custom location? RServe has ... [Read more...]

Clara Schartner As part of my summer internship at Mango I got to help out creating training materials. Learning new methods by preparing them in a teachable way is definitely my new favourite way of learning! But once I started … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Aimee Gott Over the last year I have been involved in a large number of training courses and projects that have involved reporting in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint in some way. However, my default is not to jump … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Aimee Gott Over the last year I have been involved in a large number of training courses and projects that have involved reporting in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint in some way. However, my defaul... [Read more...]

Today I wanted to try something new; so instead of discussing a project, let’s briefly take a look at an R Package I’ve recently discovered. Before we being let me just mention that I realize not everyone uses R or have even used it before, instead my focus ... [Read more...]

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The so-called residence time of a system is both an immensely useful and highly intuitive conception which provides a relevant timescale for processes. For example, the residence time of nutrients flowing into a pond would be the average ‘lifetime’ of the nutrients before being taking up by the pond creatures. ... [Read more...]

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Tourism competition data The tourism forecasting competition described in Athanasopoulos et al (2011) was an important investigation into domain-specific time-series forecasting; a different approach from the broader-scope “M” series forecasting co... [Read more...]

Release 0.0.2 of gettz is now on CRAN. gettz provides a possible fallback in situations where Sys.timezone() fails to determine the system timezone. That can happen when e.g. the file /etc/localtime somehow is not a link into the corresponding file w... [Read more...]

Last week, I gave an overview of bunch of tidyverse packages (tibble, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot, readr, purrr) to the Davis R-Users’ Group. Here is that talk (and since videos don’t display everywhere this blog is syndicated, here is the YouTube link). ... [Read more...]

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