May 2017

New online datacamp course: Forecasting in R

May 31, 2017 | Tal Galili

Forecasting in R is taught by Rob J. Hyndman, author of the forecast package Forecasting involves making predictions about the future. It is required in many situations such as deciding whether to build another power generation plant in the next ten years requires forecasts of future demand; scheduling staff in ...
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Drilling Into CSVs — Teaser Trailer

May 31, 2017 | hrbrmstr

I used reading a directory of CSVs as the foundational example in my recent post on idioms. During my exchange with Matt, Hadley and a few others — in the crazy Twitter thread that spawned said post — I mentioned that I’d personally “just use Drill”. I’ll use this post ... [Read more...]

GSoC 2017 : Parser for Biodiversity Checklists

May 31, 2017 | vijaybarve

Guest post by Qingyue Xu Compiling taxonomic checklists from varied sources of data is a common task that biodiversity informaticians encounter. In the GSoC 2017 project Parser for Biodiversity checklists, my overall goal is to extract taxonomic names from given text into a tabular format so that easy aggregation of biodiversity ... [Read more...]

simmer 3.6.2

May 31, 2017 | Iñaki Úcar

The second update of the 3.6.x release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN, thus inaugurating a bi-monthly release cycle. I must thank Duncan Garmonsway (@nacnudus) for creating and now maintaining “The Bank Tutorial: Part I” vignette, Franz Fuchs for finding an important and weird memory bug (... [Read more...]

Data Science Podcasts

May 30, 2017 | Rstats on Jon Calder

Podcasts are awesome. Especially when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work. Below are some podcasts I listen to that relate to data science and statistics. Each of them has something slightly different to offer, so if this is an area of interest to you then I ...
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Training dates for Marketing Analytics course announced

May 30, 2017 | Allan Engelhardt

Classes 3-7 July 2017: We have updated our very popular training course to take advantage of the latest Microsoft Advanced Analytics technology and re-launched it as Marketing Analytics using Microsoft R and Azure. We have just announced public training dates and are looking forward to giving the course in the week 3... [Read more...]

Data Science Podcasts

May 30, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Make the most of your commute! - Podcasts are awesome. Especially when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work. Below are some podcasts I listen to that relate to data science and statistics. Each of them has something slightly different t... [Read more...]

Data Science Podcasts

May 30, 2017 | Jon Calder's R Blog

Make the most of your commute! - Podcasts are awesome. Especially when you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work. Below are some podcasts I listen to that relate to data science and statistics. Each of them has something slightly different t... [Read more...]

Reflections on ROpenSci Unconference 2017

May 30, 2017 | David Smith

Last week I attended the ROpenSci Unconference in Los Angeles, and it was fantastic. Now in its fourth year, the ROpenSci team brought together a talented and diverse group of about 70 R developers from around the world to work on R-related projects in an intense 2-day hackathon. Not only did ... [Read more...]

Hospital Infection Scores – R Shiny App

May 30, 2017 | Scott Stoltzman

Medicare Data – R Shiny App About two weeks ago I created an extremely rough version of an R Shiny Application surrounding Medicare data. Right after publishing the blog post, I received a lot of input for improvement and help from others. Here’s a look a look at the latest ...
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Summarizing big data in R

May 30, 2017 | John Mount

Our next "R and big data tip" is: summarizing big data. We always say "if you are not looking at the data, you are not doing science"- and for big data you are very dependent on summaries (as you can’t actually look at everything). Simple question: is there ... [Read more...]

plotly 4.7.0 now on CRAN

May 30, 2017 | Carson Sievert

I’m super excited about plotly 4.7.0 – it includes numerous improvements and new features related to performance, mapping, and API requests. It also includes support for something folks have wanted for a very long time – fixed coordinates via ggplotly()! In other words, if you use coord_equal(), coord_fixed(), etc to ... [Read more...]

Multi Armed Bandit – Is it better than A/B testing?

May 29, 2017 | Riki Saito

In the field of webpage optimization, A/B testing is the most commonly and widely used experimentation method to compare two (or more) versions of a webpage or app to determine which version performs better in measures like traffic or customer conversion rates. The basic design is to randomly assign ...
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How do you feel about Last Week Tonight?

May 29, 2017 | Daniela Vazquez

Welcome, welcome, welcome! One thing my husband and I enjoy a lot is watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver every week. It is an HBO political talk-show that airs on Sunday nights, and we usually watch it while we have dinner sometime during the week. We love the show ...
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