Great news for the MilanoR community: we are launching R-Lab, a monthly R project of co-working with R on real data science projects. Either if you are an R expert, a beginner, or you just curious, you are welcome to join us! The first event will be on March 14th, ... [Read more...]

You got me thinking about Watson and its unprecedented flexibility in analyzing different data sources (at least according to IBM). So how difficult it would be to analyse sentiment of one of my favorites books using R? Pretty easy actually - all thanks to new package tidytext by Julia Silge ... [Read more...]

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I've recently released the new package ccafs, which provides access to data from Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS; http://ccafs-climate.org/) General Circulation Models (GCM) data. GCM's are a particular type of climate model, used for weather forecasting, and climate change forecasting - read more at https://en.... [Read more...]