March 2017

February 2017 New Package Picks

March 21, 2017 | R Views

One hundred and forty-five new packages were added to CRAN in February. Here are 47 interesting packages organized into five categories; Biostatistics, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Biostatistics BaTFLED3D v0.1.7: Implements a machine learning algorithm to make predictions and determine interactions in data that varies along three independent modes. ...
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February 2017 New Package Picks

March 21, 2017 | R Views

One hundred and forty-five new packages were added to CRAN in February. Here are 47 interesting packages organized into five categories; Biostatistics, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Biostatistics BaTFLED3D v0.1.7: Implements a machine...
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Parallel benchmarking with OpenML and mlr

March 21, 2017 | Heidi Seibold

With this post I want to show you how to benchmark several learners (or learners with different parameter settings) using several data sets in a structured and parallelized fashion. For this we want to use batchtools. The data that we will use here is stored on the open machine learning ...
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Use mlrMBO to optimize via command line

March 21, 2017 | Jakob Richter

Many people who want to apply Bayesian optimization want to use it to optimize an algorithm that is not implemented in R but runs on the command line as a shell script or an executable. We recently published mlrMBO on CRAN. As a normal package it normally operates inside of ... [Read more...]

Data Analytics for Societal Good

March 21, 2017 | Ali Arsalan Kazmi

At my workplace, employees celebrate a month of Data Analysis for Societal good, every year. During this time, we try to help NPOs (Non-Profit Organisations) in gaining insights from their data, for free. Whilst we are engaged in this practice at workp... [Read more...]

Financial time series forecasting – an easy approach

March 21, 2017 | Giorgio Garziano

Financial time series analysis and their forecasting have an history of remarkable contributions. It is then quite hard for the beginner to get oriented and capitalize from reading such scientific literature as it requires a solid understanding of basic statistics, a detailed study of the ground basis of time series ...
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The Next Era of Research Communication

March 21, 2017 | Aman Tsegai

From the days of actual research papers (before the digital age), to now where research papers are posted online first, not much has really changed in the way we communicate. We still use static images, formulas and a bunch of text to show what we have...
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Give a talk about an application of R at EARL

March 21, 2017 | David Smith

The EARL (Enterprise Applications of R) conference is one of my favourite events to go to. As the name of the conference suggests, the focus of the conference is where the rubber of the R language meets the road of it being used to solve real-world problems. Prior conferences have ... [Read more...]

camsRad, satellite-based time series of solar irradiation

March 21, 2017 | Lukas Lundström

camsRad is a lightweight R client for the CAMS Radiation Service, that provides satellite-based time series of solar irradiation for the actual weather conditions as well as for clear-sky conditions. Satellite-based solar irradiation data have been around roughly as long our modern era satellites. But the price tag has been ... [Read more...]

Is it possible to use RevoScaleR package in Power BI?

March 20, 2017 | tomaztsql

I was invited to deliver a session for Belgium User Group on SQL Server and R integration. After the session – which we did online using web based Citrix  – I got an interesting question: “Is it possible to use RevoScaleR performance computational functions within Power BI?“. My first answer was,  a ...
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Alteryx integrates with Microsoft R

March 20, 2017 | David Smith

You can now use Alteryx Designer, the data science workflow tool from Alteryx, as a drag-and-drop interface for many of the big-data statistical modeling tools included with Microsoft R. Alteryx v11.0 includes expanded support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Microsoft R Server, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Microsoft Analytics Platform System (... [Read more...]

R 4 hackers

March 20, 2017 | recurrentnull

Yesterday at Trivadis Tech Event, I talked about R for Hackers. It was the first session slot on Sunday morning, it was a crazy, nerdy topic, and yet there were, like, 30 people attending! An emphatic thank you to everyone who came! R a crazy, nerdy topic, – why that, you’ll ...
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