January 2017

2016, the Earthquake Annus Horribilis of Italy

January 23, 2017 | Salvino

  There is no exaggeration in stating that historic heritage is one of the most outstanding and valuable assets of Italy. The smallest villages or the largest cities, all boast hundred- (sometimes thousand-) year old buildings of great cultural, architectural, or artistic interest. Amazingly enough, a vast majority of these Read ... [Read more...]

Releasing RQGIS 0.2.0

January 23, 2017 | jannesm

Today we are happy to announce a new version of RQGIS! RQGIS establishes an interface between R and QGIS, i.e. it allows the user to access the more than 1000 QGIS geoalgorithms from within R.
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Detect Lines in Digital Images

January 23, 2017 | Super User

As part of our data science training initiative, bnosac is also providing a course on computer vision with R & Python which is held in March 9-10 in Leuven, Belgium (subscribe here or have a look at our full training offer here). Part of the course is covering finding blobs, corners, ... [Read more...]

readr::problems() returns tidy data!

January 23, 2017 | Jacob Simmering

A handy little trick I picked up today when using readr. Some background: I needed a mapping between ZIP Code Tabulation Areas and counties (to link to some urban/rural data). The Census Bureau provides a CSV style table that includes information about each of the ZCTA (e.g., size, ... [Read more...]

Monotonic Binning with Smbinning Package

January 22, 2017 | statcompute

The R package smbinning (http://www.scoringmodeling.com/rpackage/smbinning) provides a very user-friendly interface for the WoE (Weight of Evidence) binning algorithm employed in the scorecard development. However, there are several improvement opportunities in my view: 1. First of all, the underlying algorithm in the smbinning() function utilizes the recursive ... [Read more...]

Welcome to R-bloggers!

January 22, 2017 | Rstats on Jon Calder

Hooray! I am now part of the R-bloggers community! {:style=“float: right;margin-right: 15px;margin-top: 15px;margin-left: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;“} R-bloggers is a blog aggregator for content created by the Rstats community. It was founded by Tal Galili towards the end of 2009, in order to help connect R bloggers with ...
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Welcome to R-bloggers!

January 22, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Tal Galili, empowering bloggers to empower other R users - Hooray! I am now part of the R-bloggers community! R-bloggers is a blog aggregator for content created by the Rstats community. It was founded by Tal Galili towards the end of 2009, in ...
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Interactive BMI Chart

January 22, 2017 | Nathan

I was recently listening to the #WhoIsFat Joe Rogan podcast where comedians Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura had their weight loss challenge weigh-ins. The challenge was for both guys to get out of the “obese” category and into the merely “overweight” category. If one made it and the other didn’...
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Input/output benchmarks

January 22, 2017 | csgillespie

To quantify the impact of the CPU on an analysis, I created the package benchmarkme. The idea is simple. If everyone runs the same R script, we can easily compare machines. One of the benchmarks in the package is for comparing read/write speeds; we write a large CSV file (...
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Bioinformatics Tutorial with Exercises in R (part 1)

January 22, 2017 | Kalyan Srivastava

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines the field of biology with computer science to understand biological data. Bioinformatics is generally used in laboratories as an initial or final step to get the information. This information can subsequently be utilized for the wet lab practices. However, it can ... [Read more...]

Women in the 2016 Stack Overflow Survey

January 22, 2017 | Julia Silge

Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey opened last week, and we on the Data Team are looking forward to analyzing the survey results to better understand our developer community. I am particularly inte... [Read more...]

Welcome to R-bloggers!

January 22, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Tal Galili, empowering bloggers to empower other R users - Hooray! I am now part of the R-bloggers community! R-bloggers is a blog aggregator for content created by the Rstats community. It was founded by Tal Galili towards the end of 2009, i...
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