April 2017

Overcome the Fear of Programming

April 27, 2017 | R programming

By Milind Paradkar You say you never programmed in life before? Never heard of words like Classes and Objects, Dataframe, Methods, Inheritance, Loops? Are you fearful of programming, huh? Don’t be! Programming can be fun, stimulating, and once you start and learn to program many of you would love ...
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Population Lines: How and Why I Created It

April 27, 2017 | James

Thanks to the power of Reddit the “Population Lines” print (buy here) I created back in 2013 has attracted a huge amount of interest in the past week or so (a Europe only version made by Henrik Lindberg made the Reddit front page). There’s been lots of subsequent discussion about ...
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Genetic Music: From Schoenberg to Bach

April 27, 2017 | @aschinchon

Bach, the epitome of a musician who strove all life long and finally acquired the ‘Habit of Perfection’, was a thoroughly imperfect human being (John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven) Sometimes I dream awake and imagine I am a famous musician.  I fantasize being Paco de ...
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Welcome to our rOpenSci Interns

April 27, 2017 | Scott Chamberlain, Stefanie Butland

There's a lot of work that goes in to making software: the code that does the thing itself, unit testing, examples, tutorials, documentation, and support. rOpenSci software is created and maintained both by our staff and by our (awesome) community. In keeping with our aim to build capacity of software ... [Read more...]

Oakland Real Estate Prices (Multi-Tenant)

April 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Oakland Real Estate Prices (Multi-Tenant)

April 26, 2017 | [email protected]

Living in the Bay Area has led me to think more and more about real estate (and how amazingly expensive it is here…)  I’ve signed up for trackers on Zillow and Redfin, but the data analyst in me always wants to dive deeper, to look back historically, to quantify, ...
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Euler Problem 18 & 67: Maximum Path Sums

April 26, 2017 | Peter Prevos

Proposed solution to Euler Problem 18 in the R language. Find the maximum total from top to bottom of a triangle consisting of numbers. Continue reading → The post Euler Problem 18 & 67: Maximum Path Sums appeared first on The Devil is in the Data.
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Introductory Data Analysis with Python

April 26, 2017 | Ananda Das

This is a simple post to demonstrate how python can be used to do preliminary data analysis. I am using Python version 3.5.1 coming with Anaconda Python version 4.0 64 bit and my operating system is windows. To start with you can download Anaconda Python and install it in your machine. Once the ...
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qualtRics 1.0 now available from CRAN

April 26, 2017 | Jasper Ginn

Qualtrics allows users to collect online data through surveys. My R package qualtRics contains convenience functions to pull survey results straight into R using the Qualtrics API instead of having to download survey results manually. Currently, the...
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Binning Outliers in a Histogram

April 26, 2017 | That’s so Random

I guess we all use it, the good old histogram. One of the first things we are taught in Introduction to Statistics and routinely applied whenever coming across a new continuous variable. However, it easily gets messed up by outliers. Putting most of the data into a single bin or ...
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Age Bias Plot Changes in FSA

April 25, 2017 | fishR Blog

In the last two weeks, I have posted twice about modifying age bias plots and Bland-Altman-like plots for comparing age estimates. From those posts, I have decided that I prefer to plot differences between the ages on the y-axis (as com... [Read more...]
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