Intro Pipeline concept is definitely not new for software world, Unix pipe operator (|) links two tasks putting the output of one as the input of the other. In machine learning solutions it is pretty much usual to apply several transformation and manipulation to datasets, or to different portions or sample ... [Read more...]

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If you’re a Big Baller, you know when to stayeth in your lane but also when to switcheth lanes. The Big Baller Brand brothers just inked a deal to play professional basketball in Europe. They switched into a different lane to achieve their original goal. The knee-jerk reaction from ... [Read more...]

Reproduced with the kind permission of our Head of Data Engineering, Mark Sellors and first published on his blog When a Tweet Turns Into an R Package Boy, that escalated quickly I just wanted to write up a brief post about the power of R, its community, and tell the ... [Read more...]

Here is a quick example for how to get started with some of the more sophisticated point pattern analysis tools that have been developed for ecologists – principally the adehabitathr package – but that are very useful for human data. Ecologists deploy point pattern analysis to establish the “home range” of a ... [Read more...]

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A fishR user recently asked me In the book that you published, I frequently use the stock-recruit curve code. The interface that shows both the Ricker/Beverton-Holt figure with the recruit per spawner to spawner figure (i.e., the dynamic ... [Read more...]

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Slides from Münster Data Science Meetup These are my slides from the Münster Data Science Meetup on December 12th, 2017. My sketchnotes were collected from these two podcasts: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-7-carlos-guestrin-explaining-predictions-machine-learning-models/ https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2016/trusting-machine-learning-models-with-lime Sketchnotes: TWiML Talk #7 with Carlos Guestrin – Explaining the Predictions of ... [Read more...]

It’s that time of year when we need to start thinking about what R Conferences we would like to (and can!) attend. To help plan your (ahem) work trips, we thought it would be useful to list the upcoming main attractions. We maintain a list of upcomin... [Read more...]

BAGEL SHOP IDEA I was sitting in a bagel shop on Saturday with my 9 year old daughter. We had brought along hexagonal graph paper and a six sided die. We decided that we would choose a hexagon in the middle of the page and then roll the die to determine ... [Read more...]

A quick personal note: today is my first day as a member of the Cloud Developer Advocates team at Microsoft! I'll still be blogging and events related to R, and supporting the R community, but now I'll be doing it as a member of a team dedicated to community outreach. ... [Read more...]

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I am pleased to announce that the R package styler, which I have worked on through Google Summer of Code 2017 with Kirill Müller and Yihui Xie, has reached a mature stage. [Read more...]

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I am pleased to announce that the R package styler, which I have worked on through Google Summer of Code 2017 with Kirill Müller and Yihui Xie, has reached a mature stage. You can now install it from CRAN

install.packages("styler")

If your CRAN mirror does not yet have it, you ... [Read more...]