May 2017

April New Package Picks

May 29, 2017 | R Views

Here are my picks for the “Top 40” new packages submitted to CRAN in April 2017. These selections, which were culled from 208 submissions, are organized into four categories: Data, Finance, Statistics and Utilities. The number of entries in the Data and Utilities categories reflect the initiatives of R developers to connect to ...
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Exploring LSTMs

May 29, 2017 | Edwin Chen

The first time I learned about LSTMs, my eyes glazed over. Not in a good, jelly donut kind of way. It turns out LSTMs are a fairly simple extension to neural networks, and they're behind a lot of the amazing achievements deep learning has made in the past few years. ... [Read more...]

R and Keyword Planner

May 29, 2017 | Moritz

Using R and Google’s Keyword Planner to evaluate size and competitiveness of international markets.   Our Product: the Keyword Hero About two months ago our team developed a new SaaS product, the Keyword Hero. It’s the only solution to “decrypt” the organic keywords in Google Analytics that users searched ... [Read more...]

Instrumental Variables in R exercises (Part-3)

May 29, 2017 | Bassalat Sajjad

This is the third part of the series on Instrumental Variables. For other parts of the series follow the tag instrumental variables. In this exercise set we will use Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimation technique using the examples from part-1 and part-2. Recall that GMM estimation relies on the ... [Read more...]

Update to GetHFData (Version 1.3)

May 29, 2017 | R and Finance

- I just posted a major update to GetHFData. Version 1.3 of GetHFData makes it possible to download and aggregate order data from Bovespa. The data comprises buy and sell orders sent by market operators. Tabular data includes t... [Read more...]

5 ways to measure running time of R code

May 27, 2017 | Alexej's blog

A reviewer asked me to report detailed running times for all (so many :scream:) performed computations in one of my papers, and so I spent a Saturday morning figuring out my favorite way to benchmark R code. This is a quick summary of the options I fou...
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5 ways to measure running time of R code

May 27, 2017 | Alexej's blog

A reviewer asked me to report detailed running times for all (so many :scream:) performed computations in one of my papers, and so I spent a Saturday morning figuring out my favorite way to benchmark R code. This is a quick summary of the options I found to be available. ... [Read more...]

Oakland Real Estate – Full EDA

May 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 – Full EDA

May 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, ...
[Read more...]

Canada Immigration: Where to settle in? Exercises

May 26, 2017 | Lauro Silva

Many people around the globe would like to immigrate to Canada as a Skilled Worker. These candidates must prove language proficiency in French and English, at least 2 years of working experience after graduation, and more. But, many immigrants that arrive in canada face unemployment rates sometimes even higher than in ... [Read more...]
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