July 2017

Data wrangling : Transforming (2/3)

July 19, 2017 | Vasileios Tsakalos

Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go ... [Read more...]

New R Course: Writing Efficient R Code

July 19, 2017 | DataCamp Blog

Hello R users, we've got a brand new course today: Writing Efficient R Code by Colin Gillespie. The beauty of R is that it is built for performing data analysis. The downside is that sometimes R can be slow, thereby obstructing our analysis. For thi... [Read more...]

Short course on Bayesian data analysis and Stan 23-25 Aug in NYC!

July 19, 2017 | andrew

Jonah “ShinyStan” Gabry, Mike “Riemannian NUTS” Betancourt, and I will be giving a three-day short course next month in New York, following the model of our successful courses in 2015 and 2016. Before class everyone should install R, RStudio and RStan on their computers. (If you already have these, please update to ... [Read more...]

Short course on Bayesian data analysis and Stan 23-25 Aug in NYC!

July 19, 2017 | andrew

Jonah “ShinyStan” Gabry, Mike “Riemannian NUTS” Betancourt, and I will be giving a three-day short course next month in New York, following the model of our successful courses in 2015 and 2016. Before class everyone should install R, RStudio and RStan on their computers. (If you already have these, please update to ... [Read more...]

RcppAPT 0.0.4

July 19, 2017 | Thinking inside the box

A new version of RcppAPT -- our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, ... commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu and the like -- arrived on CRAN yesterday. We added a few more functions in order to ... [Read more...]

seplyr update

July 19, 2017 | John Mount

The development version of my new R package seplyr is performing in practical applications with dplyr 0.7.* much better than even I (the seplyr package author) expected. I think I have hit a very good set of trade-offs, and I have now spent significant time creating documentation and examples. I wish ... [Read more...]

Parameter tuning with mlrHyperopt

July 18, 2017 | r-bloggers on Machine Learning in R

Hyperparameter tuning with mlr is rich in options as they are multiple tuning methods: Simple Random Search Grid Search Iterated F-Racing (via irace) Sequential Model-Based Optimization (via mlrMBO) Also the search space is easily definable and customizable for each of the 60+ learners of mlr using the ParamSets from the ParamHelpers ...
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Parameter tuning with mlrHyperopt

July 18, 2017 | Jakob Richter

Hyperparameter tuning with mlr is rich in options as they are multiple tuning methods: Simple Random Search Grid Search Iterated F-Racing (via irace) Sequential Model-Based Optimization (via mlrMBO) Also the search space is easily definable and customizable for each of the 60+ learners of mlr using the ParamSets from the ParamHelpers ...
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Some Ideas for your Internal R Package

July 18, 2017 | R Views

At RStudio, I have the pleasure of interacting with data science teams around the world. Many of these teams are led by R users stepping into the role of analytic admins. These users are responsible for supporting and growing the R user base in their organization and often lead internal ... [Read more...]

JAGS 4.3.0 is released

July 18, 2017 | Martyn

The source tarball for JAGS 4.3.0 is now available from Sourceforge. Binary distributions will be available later. See the updated manual for details of the features in the new version. This version is fully compatible with the current version of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Multiple Factor Analysis to analyse several data tables

July 18, 2017 | francoishusson

How to take into account and how to compare information from different information sources? Multiple Factor Analysis is a principal Component Methods that deals with datasets that contain quantitative and/or categorical variables that are structured by groups. Here is a course with videos that present the method named Multiple ... [Read more...]

Animating a spinner using ggplot2 and ImageMagick

July 18, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

It’s Sunday, and I [Bob] am just sitting on the couch peacefully ggplotting to illustrate basic sample spaces using spinners (a trick I’m borrowing from Jim Albert’s book Curve Ball). There’s an underlying continuous outcome (i.e., where the spinner lands) and a quantization into a ... [Read more...]

Animating a spinner using ggplot2 and ImageMagick

July 18, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

It’s Sunday, and I [Bob] am just sitting on the couch peacefully ggplotting to illustrate basic sample spaces using spinners (a trick I’m borrowing from Jim Albert’s book Curve Ball). There’s an underlying continuous outcome (i.e., where the spinner lands) and a quantization into a ... [Read more...]

Plants

July 18, 2017 | @aschinchon

Blue dragonflies dart to and fro I tie my life to your balloon and let it go (Warm Foothills, Alt-J) In my last post I did some drawings based on L-Systems. These drawings are done sequentially. At any step, the state of the drawing can be described by the position (...
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Multiple Correspondence Analysis with FactoMineR

July 18, 2017 | francoishusson

Here is a course with videos that present Multiple Correspondence Analysis in a French way. The most well-known use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis is: surveys. Four videos present a course on MCA, highlighting the way to interpret the data. Then  you will find videos presenting the way to implement MCA ...
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