May 2017

Visualizing Tennis Grand Slam Winners Performances

May 1, 2017 | Giorgio Garziano

Data visualization of sports historical results is one of the means by which champions strengths and weaknesses comparison can be outlined. In this tutorial, we show what plots flavors may help in champions performances comparison, timeline visualization, player-to-player and player-to-tournament relationships. We are going to use the Tennis Grand Slam ...
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Using Microsoft R with Alteryx

May 1, 2017 | David Smith

Alteryx Designer, the self-service analytics workflow tool, recently added integration with Microsoft R. This allows you to train models provided by Microsoft R, and create predictions from them, without needing to write R code — you simply drag-and-drop to create a workflow. In a recent post at the Microsoft R blog, ... [Read more...]

Forecasting: Multivariate Regression Exercises (Part-4)

May 1, 2017 | Kostiantyn Kravchuk

In the previous exercises of this series, forecasts were based only on an analysis of the forecast variable. Another approach to forecasting is to use external variables, which serve as predictors. This set of exercises focuses on forecasting with the standard multivariate linear regression. Running regressions may appear straightforward but ... [Read more...]

Prediction intervals for GLMs part II

May 1, 2017 | Gavin L. Simpson

One of my more popular answers on StackOverflow concerns the issue of prediction intervals for a generalized linear model (GLM). Comments, even on StackOverflow, aren’t a good place for a discussion so I thought I’d post something hereon my blog that went into a bit more detail as ...
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Prediction intervals for GLMs part II

May 1, 2017 | Gavin L. Simpson

One of my more popular answers on StackOverflow concerns the issue of prediction intervals for a generalized linear model (GLM). Comments, even on StackOverflow, aren’t a good place for a discussion so I thought I’d post something hereon my blog that went into a bit more detail as ... [Read more...]

RPostgreSQL and schemas

May 1, 2017 | mikerspencer

The database PostgreSQL can have different schemas. These work like a window for users, where they get to see specific things within a database, e.g. tables. In this post we’ll look at how… Continue reading → [Read more...]

Prediction intervals for GLMs part I

May 1, 2017 | Gavin L. Simpson

One of my more popular answers on StackOverflow concerns the issue of prediction intervals for a generalized linear model (GLM). My answer really only addresses how to compute confidence intervals for parameters but in the comments I discuss the more substantive points raised by the OP in their question. Lately ...
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Prediction intervals for GLMs part I

May 1, 2017 | Gavin L. Simpson

One of my more popular answers on StackOverflow concerns the issue of prediction intervals for a generalized linear model (GLM). My answer really only addresses how to compute confidence intervals for parameters but in the comments I discuss the more substantive points raised by the OP in their question. Lately ... [Read more...]

A shiny app to convert sports scores

May 1, 2017 | Antoine R

I’m a huge sports fan, but I certainly don’t have extended knowledge about all team sports. Sometimes when I hear about scores in a sports I’m not quite “fluent” in, I wonder how they would translate in a sports I know better. I guess many people ask ... [Read more...]

Track Concordance Charts

May 1, 2017 | Tony Hirst

Since getting started with generating templated R reports a few weeks ago, I’ve started spending the odd few minutes every race weekend around looking at ways of automating the generation of F1 qualifying and race reports. Im yesterday’s race, some of the commentary focussed on whether MAS had ...
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How to create your first vector in R

May 1, 2017 | Han de Vries

Are you an expert R programmer? If so, this is *not* for you. This is a short tutorial for R novices, explaining vectors, a basic R data structure. Here’s an example: 10 150 30 45 20.3 And here’s another one: -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 still another one: "Darth Vader" "Luke […] Related exercise ... [Read more...]
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