BiBitR enters the fray! Ewoud De Troyer, University of Hasselt (CenStat) Introduction The latest patch of the BiclustGUI includes the implementation of BiBitR, a simple R wrapper which directly calls the original Java code for applying the BiBit algo... [Read more...]

A great way to hone your skills as a data scientist is to pick a topic you're passionate about, find some data related to it, and analyze the heck out of it. Jim Vallandingham is clearly passionate about old Kung Fu movies — particularly those from the Shaw Brothers Studio — and ... [Read more...]

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Heartland Bank, a rapidly growing bank in New Zealand, has adopted a data-driven approach to analyzing risk, evaluating credit lines, and understanding cash flows. But they found their legacy SAS system to be labor-intensive and time consuming when it came to updating financial models, and it was expensive to boot. (... [Read more...]

Multiple Regression is one of the most widely used methods in statistical modelling. However, despite its many benefits, it is oftentimes used without checking the underlying assumptions. This can lead to results which can be misleading or even completely wrong. Therefore, applying diagnostics to detect any strong violations of the ... [Read more...]

I have a very large mixed integer problem to solve.   COIN‘s solver accessed through Rsymphony did a decent job, but had trouble finding feasible solutions.  I had been told that the IBM cplex  solver was the best on the market for mixed integer programming. Installing cplex is a relatively ... [Read more...]

I am happy to announce a couple of exciting upcoming Win-Vector LLC public speaking engagements. BARUG Meetup Tuesday, Tuesday February 7, 2017 ~7:50pm, Intuit, Building 20, 2600 Marine Way, Mountain View, CA. Win-Vector LLC’s John Mount will be giving a “lightning talk” (15 minutes) on R calling conventions (standard versus non-standard) and showing how ... [Read more...]

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A new release, now at version 0.6.12, of the digest package is now on CRAN and in Debian. The digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'crc32', 'xxhash' and 'murmurhash' algorithms) permitting easy comp... [Read more...]

An update (v 0.1-1) of the intrval package was recently published on CRAN. The package simplifies interval related logical operations (read more about the motivation in this post). So what is new in this version? Some of the inconsistencies in the 1st CRAN release have been cleaned up, and I ... [Read more...]

I was lucky enough to get some nice and interesting feedback on my last post. One comment was really useful and pretty embarrassing: I had written “see” instead of “sea” in the whole post… Thanks Steve Dempsey for the correction! I also got s... [Read more...]

by Edgar Ruiz In the corporate world, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations still dominate as the tools used for analyzing and sharing information. So, it is not at all surprising that even when business analysts use R for the analytical heavy lifting, they frequently revert to using spreadsheets and slide decks ... [Read more...]

Guest post by Jonathan Sidi Cheatsheets are currently built and used exclusivley as a teaching tool. We want to try and change this and produce a cheat sheet that gives a roadmap to build a known product, but also is built as a function so users can input data into ... [Read more...]

Hey R fans! We've just released a new episode of our DataChats video series. In this episode, we interview Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Ph.D.. Mine is Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of St... [Read more...]

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Over the next few months we’re running a number of R, Stan and Scala courses around the UK. Feburary Mon 13 – Introduction to R (London) Tue 14 – Programming with R (London) Wed 15 – Advanced Graphics with R (London) Thur 16 (2-day course) – Predictive Analysis (London) March Tue Mar 21 – R for […] [Read more...]

This week we are launching Bond Valuation and Analysis in R taught by Clifford S. Ang, CFA, Vice President at Compass Lexecon. Bonds are securities issued by governments or corporations that pay interest over a fixed schedule and are the most well-kno... [Read more...]