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Making a line chart in ggplot2 is pretty straightforward, if you know how it works ... The post How to make a line chart with ggplot2 appeared first on SHARP SIGHT LABS. [Read more...]

Why care about patents? 1. Patents play a critical role in incentivizing innovation, without which we wouldn't have much of the technology we rely on everyday What does your iPhone, Google's PageRank algorithm, and a butter substitute called Smart Balance all have in common? ...They all probably wouldn't be here if ... [Read more...]

International Talk Like A Pirate Day Q: What has 8 legs, 8 arms and 8 eyes? A: 8 pirates. Avast, ye scurvy scum! Today be September 19, the International Talk Like A Pirate Day. While it’s a silly “holiday”, it’s a great chance to ... [Read more...]

Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to justify using R over Python. And while I do use Python for running scripts in production, I am much more comfortable with the R environment. Basically, whenever I can, I use R for prototyping, testin... [Read more...]

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Why care about patents? 1. Patents play a critical role in incentivizing innovation, without which we wouldn’t have much of the technology we rely on everyday What does your iPhone, Google’s PageRank algorithm, and a butter substitute called Smart Balance all have in common? …They all probably wouldn’t ... [Read more...]

I have written a blog post about why I love R and prefer it to other languages. The post is on my new site, but since it isn’t on R-bloggers yet I am also posting the link here: Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to ... [Read more...]

Take the mystery out of CRAN level package maintenance - Thinking of creating a new package? Dread the task of function documentation? Afraid to run devtools::check(build_args = '--as-cran') and get bombarded by Errors, Warnings, and Notes (o... [Read more...]

The fourth EARL London conference took place last week, and once again it was an enjoyable and informative showcase of practical applications of R. Kudos to the team from Mango for hosting a great event featuring interesting talks and a friendly crowd. As always, there were more talks on offer ... [Read more...]

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Last weekend, another edition of Trivadis Tech Event took place. As usual, it was great fun and a great source of inspiration. I had the occasion to talk about deep learning twice: One talk was an intro to DL4J (deeplearning4j), zooming in on a few aspects I’ve ... [Read more...]

I was socially engineered by @yoniceedee into creating today’s post due to being prodded with this tweet: Where to see the best fall foliage, based on your location: https://t.co/12pQU29ksB pic.twitter.com/JiywYVpmno— Vox (@voxdotcom) September 18, 2017 Since there aren’t nearly enough sf and geom_... [Read more...]

Invitation to the 3rd Big Data Analytics World Championships 2017 We invite members of the R-Bloggers/R-Users community to participate in the 2017 TEXATA Big Data Analytics World Championships (www.texata.com).  You’re Free Discount Code is: 2017RUSERS (normally $30 fully paid entry).   Here are important dates for the TEXATA educational business ... [Read more...]

While working on a couple of projects involving beer data I did land up at breweries association. They have a data set on all the breweries across the US. This raw html table was scrapped ,cleaned and geocoded using R. You can find the R Scripts which ... [Read more...]

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Thinking of creating a new package? Dread the task of function documentation? Afraid to run devtools::check(build_args = '--as-cran') and get bombarded by Errors, Warnings, and Notes (oh my!) ? Wait…. breathe! After feeling all that anxiety and following all of Hadley’s directions online, I felt I was doing ... [Read more...]

Stay motivated with R programming by knowing your emotions We don’t usually think of programming as an ‘emotional’ experience. It is all code and computer logic and if using R, probably statistics. But recognising the emotions you face when pro... [Read more...]

Employee turnvover (attrition) is a major cost to an organization, and predicting turnover is at the forefront of needs of Human Resources (HR) in many organizations. Until now the mainstream approach has been to use logistic regression or survival cur... [Read more...]

As mentioned in the previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/model-operational-loss-directly-with-tweedie-glm/), we often need to model non-negative numeric outcomes with zeros in the operational loss model development. Tweedie GLM provides a convenient interface to model non-negative losses directly by assuming that aggregated losses are the Poisson sum of Gamma outcomes, ... [Read more...]