As a complement to my note on R as a data science language, this note lists ten other technologies that you might want to learn to use, or at least monitor, if you are interested in learning data science. Communication Git is a concurrent versioning... [Read more...]

As a complement to my note on R as a data science language, this note lists ten other technologies that you might want to learn to use, or at least monitor, if you are interested in learning data science. Communication Git is a concurrent versioning... [Read more...]

The R language is a ‘DSL’ – a domain-specific language. The domain that it deals with, however, is not well-defined. In this note, I call R a “data science language” and link to a few resources that make the point better than I could. R as a domain-specific language A few ... [Read more...]

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Jason Holderieath January 4, 2017 I had a very large (70,000+ columns) problem that I needed to reduce. A function took two matrices and transformed them into a single vector the length as the two inputs. I needed to reduce the inputs and then map the output back to the original position of ... [Read more...]

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by Joseph Rickert Recently, I had the opportunity to interview RStudio’s Joe Cheng. Joe, the inventor and lead developer for Shiny, was the first person that J.J. Allaire invited to join the RStudio IDE project. We talked about those early days, how Shiny got started, Joe’s background ... [Read more...]

We recently opened up the BelgiumMaps.StatBel package and made it available at https://github.com/bnosac/BelgiumMaps.StatBel. This R package contains maps with administrative boundaries (national, regions, provinces, districts, municipalities, statistical sectors, agglomerations (200m)) of Belgium extracted from Open Data at Statistics Belgium.  The package is a data-only ... [Read more...]

Mango Solutions are delighted to announce that the Effective Applications of the R Language Conference (EARL) will be held in three locations this year: San Francisco Bay Area – June 2017 London – 12-14 September 2017 Boston – November 2017 … Continue reading → [Read more...]

As part of our continuing effort to digitise poetry and to automate new forms of poetry, we released an R package called pattern.nlp, which is available at https://github.com/bnosac/pattern.nlp . It allows R users to do sentiment analysis and Parts of Speech tagging for text written ... [Read more...]

Part of the R course offering of BNOSAC which you can find at http://bnosac.be/images/bnosac/bnosac_courses_r.pdf, we offer several 2-day hands-on courses covering the use of text mining tools for the purpose of data analysis. It covers basic text hand... [Read more...]

Within 2 weeks, our 2-day crash course on Applied spatial modelling with R (April 13-14, 2016) will be given at the University of Leuven, Belgium: https://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/applied-spatial-modelling-with-rYou'll learn during this course the following elements: The sp package to handle spatial data (spatial points, lines, polygons, spatial data frames) ... [Read more...]

With the release of RStudio add-in possibilities, a new area of productivity increase and expected new features for R users has arrived. Thanks to the help of Oliver who has written an RStudio add-in on top of taskscheduleR, scheduling and automating an R script from RStudio is now exactly one ... [Read more...]

If you are working on a Windows computer and want to schedule your R scripts while you are off running, sleeping or having a coffee break, the taskscheduleR package might be what you are looking for.  The taskscheduleR R package is available at https://github.com/jwijffels/taskscheduleR and it ... [Read more...]

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Tomorrow, the next RBelgium meeting will be held at the bnosac offices. This is the schedule. Interested? Feel free to join the event. More info: http://www.meetup.com/RBelgium/events/228427510/ • 18h00-18h30: enter & meet other R users • 18h30-19h00: Web scraping with R: live scraping products & prices ... [Read more...]

Determining the number of “topics” in a corpus of documents In my last post I finished by topic modelling a set of political blogs from 2004. I made a passing comment that it’s a challenge to know how many topics to set; the R topicmodels pack... [Read more...]

Mango Solutions are delighted to announce that the Effective Applications of the R Language Conference (EARL) will be held in three locations this year: San Francisco Bay Area – June 2017 London – 12-14 September 2017 Boston – November 2017 Established in 2014, EARL is for users and developers of the open source R programming language; the ... [Read more...]

In the last post I created a gif summarizing the HadCRUT4 sea-surface temperature (HadSST3) data as its data collection evolved over time. The goal of the last post was simply to visualize presence of any temperature measurement in a given matrix gr... [Read more...]