September, 2017 | R-bloggers

Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32

September 20, 2017 | Peter Prevos

Euler Problem 32 returns to pandigital numbers, which are numbers that contain one of each digit. Like so many of the Euler Problems, these numbers serve no practical purpose whatsoever, other than some entertainment value. You can find all pandigital … Continue reading → The post Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32 appeared first on ... [Read more...]

Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32

September 20, 2017 | Peter Prevos

Euler Problem 32 returns to pandigital numbers, which are numbers that contain one of each digit. Like so many of the Euler Problems, these numbers serve no practical purpose whatsoever, other than some entertainment value. You can find all pandigital … Continue reading → The post Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32 appeared first on ... [Read more...]

Report from Mexico City

September 20, 2017 | R Views

Editors Note: It has been heartbreaking watching the images from México City. Teresa Ortiz, co-organizer of R-Ladies CDMX reports on efforts of data scientists to help. Our thoughts are with them, and with the people of México. It has been a hard couple of days around here. In ...

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Monte Carlo Simulations & the "SimDesign" Package in R

September 20, 2017 | Dave Giles

Past posts on this blog have included several relating to Monte Carlo simulation - e.g., see here, here, and here.Recently I came across a great article by Matthew Sigal and Philip Chalmers in the Journal of Statistics Education. It's titled, "Play it Again: Teaching Statistics With Monte Carlo ... [Read more...]

Answer probability questions with simulation (part-2)

September 20, 2017 | sindri

This is the second exercise set on answering probability questions with simulation. Finishing the first exercise set is not a prerequisite. The difficulty level is about the same – thus if you are looking for a challenge aim at writing up faster more elegant algorithms. As always, it pays off to ... [Read more...]

EARL London 2017 – That’s a wrap!

September 20, 2017 | Mango Solutions

Beth Ashlee, Data Scientist After a successful first-ever EARL San Francisco in June, it was time to head back to the birth place EARL - London. With more abstracts subm...

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Preview: ALTREP promises to bring major performance improvements to R

September 20, 2017 | David Smith

Changes are coming to the internals of the R engine which promise to improve performance and reduce memory use, with dramatic impacts in some circumstances. The changes were first proposed by Gabe Becker at the DSC Conference in 2016 (and updated in 2017), and the implementation by Luke Tierney and Gabe Becker ... [Read more...]

pinp 0.0.2: Onwards

September 20, 2017 | Thinking inside the box

A first update 0.0.2 of the pinp package arrived on CRAN just a few days after the initial release. We added a new vignette for the package (see below), extended a few nice features, and smoothed a few corners. The NEWS entry for this release f...

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MLJAR R API

September 20, 2017 | Piotr Płoński

Hi! We have added R API for mljar - so you can run sklearn, xgboost, lightGBM, Keras, RGF from one R line :) Please check it on https://github.com/mljar/mljar-api-R

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Major update of D3partitionR: Interactive viz’ of nested data with R and D3.js

September 20, 2017 | Antoine Guillot

D3partitionR is an R package to visualize interactively nested and hierarchical data using D3.js and HTML widget. These last few weeks I’ve been working on a major D3partitionR update which is now available on GitHub. As soon as enough feedbacks are collected, the package will be ... [Read more...]

Regression Analysis — What You Should’ve Been Taught But Weren’t, and Were Taught But Shouldn’t Have Been

September 20, 2017 | matloff

The above title was the title of my talk this evening at our Bay Area R Users Group. I had been asked to talk about my new book, and I presented four of the myths that are dispelled in the book. Hadley also gave an interesting talk, “An introduction to ... [Read more...]

12 Visualizations to Show a Single Number

September 20, 2017 | Tim Bock

Infographics, dashboards, and reports often need to highlight or visualize a single number. But how do you highlight a single number so that it has an impact and looks good? It can be a big...

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Improve the Quality of Data Visualizations Using Redundancy

September 20, 2017 | Tim Bock

Using multiple visual elements to represent one variable in a chart can increase accuracy and improve readability. This is called adding redundancy or redundant encoding and, if done right, it will improve the chances of a reader...

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From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.

September 19, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin - Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I talked about how blogging about R and Data Science helped me be... [Read more...]

From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.

September 19, 2017 | Shirin's playgRound

Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin - Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I talked about how blogging about R and Data Science helped me b...

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A simstudy update provides an excuse to talk a little bit about latent class regression and the EM algorithm

September 19, 2017 | Keith Goldfeld

I was just going to make a quick announcement to let folks know that I’ve updated the simstudy package to version 0.1.4 (now available on CRAN) to include functions that allow conversion of columns to factors, creation of dummy variables, and most importantly, specification of outcomes that are more flexibly ...

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Enterprise-ready dashboards with Shiny and databases

September 19, 2017 | R Views

Inside the enterprise, a dashboard is expected to have up-to-the-minute information, to have a fast response time despite the large amount of data that supports it, and to be available on any device. An end user may expect that clicking on a bar or column inside a plot will result ...

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Hurricane Irma’s rains, visualized with R

September 19, 2017 | David Smith

The USGS has followed up their visualization of Hurricane Harvey rainfalls with an updated version of the animation, this time showing the rain and flooding from Hurricane Irma in Florida: Another #rstats #dataviz! Precip and #flooding from #HurricaneIrma ? #opensource code: https://t.co/rpocPQe7zR #openscience pic.twitter.com/rGX1... [Read more...]

Time Series Analysis in R Part 1: The Time Series Object

September 19, 2017 | Troy Walters

Many of the methods used in time series analysis and forecasting have been around for quite some time but have taken a back seat to machine learning techniques in recent years. Nevertheless, time series analysis and forecasting are useful tools in any data scientist’s toolkit. Some recent time series-based ...

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Pirating Web Content Responsibly With R

September 19, 2017 | hrbrmstr

International Code Talk Like A Pirate Day almost slipped by without me noticing (September has been a crazy busy month), but it popped up in the calendar notifications today and I was glad that I had prepped the meat of a post a few weeks back. There will be no ‘...

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September 2017

Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32

Pandigital Products: Euler Problem 32

Report from Mexico City

Monte Carlo Simulations & the "SimDesign" Package in R

Answer probability questions with simulation (part-2)

EARL London 2017 – That’s a wrap!

Preview: ALTREP promises to bring major performance improvements to R

pinp 0.0.2: Onwards

MLJAR R API

Major update of D3partitionR: Interactive viz’ of nested data with R and D3.js

Regression Analysis — What You Should’ve Been Taught But Weren’t, and Were Taught But Shouldn’t Have Been

12 Visualizations to Show a Single Number

Improve the Quality of Data Visualizations Using Redundancy

From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.

From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.

A simstudy update provides an excuse to talk a little bit about latent class regression and the EM algorithm

Enterprise-ready dashboards with Shiny and databases

Hurricane Irma’s rains, visualized with R

Time Series Analysis in R Part 1: The Time Series Object

Pirating Web Content Responsibly With R

September 2017

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