This is the first module of a five-module training on R I conceived and taught to my ex-colleagues back in December … More The post R Training – The Basics appeared first on SLOW DATA.

In prior posts, we demonstrated how to download projections from numerous sources, calculate custom projections for your league, and compare the accuracy of different sources of projections (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016).[...] The post Who Has the Best Fantasy Football Projections? 2017 Update appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.

Our book Practical Data Science with R has just been reviewed in Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) News by Dr. Allan M. Miller (U.C. Berkeley)! The book is half off at Manning form March 21st 2017 using the following code (please ...

A story about one of the retail chains (J.C. Penny) releasing their list of stores closing in 2017 crossed paths with my Feedly reading list today and jogged my memory that there were a number of chains closing many of their doors this year, and I wanted to see the ...

This morning, I discovered an interesting statistic, America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776,  i.e. the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total since its birth. I wanted to check, get a better understanding and look at other countries ...

Two months ago padr was introduced, followed by an improved version that allowed for applying pad on group level. See the introduction blogs or the vignette("padr") for more package information. In this blog I give four more elaborate examples on how to go from raw data to insight with ...