2017

Functional peace of mind

November 13, 2017 | rdata.lu Blog | Data science with R

I think what I enjoy the most about functional programming is the peace of mind that comes with it. With functional programming, there’s a lot of stuff you don’t need to think about. You can write functions that are general enough so that they solve a variety of ... [Read more...]

Functional peace of mind

November 13, 2017 | Econometrics and Free Software

I think what I enjoy the most about functional programming is the peace of mind that comes with it. With functional programming, there’s a lot of stuff you don’t need to think about. You can write functions that are general enough so that they solve a variety of ... [Read more...]

2017 rOpenSci ozunconf :: Reflections and the realtime Package

November 13, 2017 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

This year’s rOpenSci ozunconf was held in Melbourne, bringing together over 45 R enthusiasts from around the country and beyond. As is customary, ideas for projects were discussed in GitHub Issues (41 of them by the time the unconf rolled around!) and there was no shortage of enthusiasm, interesting concepts, and ... [Read more...]

Updated curl package provides additional security for R on Windows

November 13, 2017 | David Smith

There are many R packages that connect to the internet, whether it's to import data (readr), install packages from Github (devtools), connect with cloud services (AzureML), or many other web-connected tasks. There's one R package in particular that provides the underlying connection between R and the Web: curl, by Jeroen ... [Read more...]

Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to “280” with rtweet

November 13, 2017 | hrbrmstr

By now, virtually every major media outlet has covered the “280 Apocalypse”™. For those still not “in the know”, Twitter recently moved the tweet character cap to 280 after a “successful” beta test (some of us have different ideas of what “success” looks like). I had been on a hiatus from the ...

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normal variates in Metropolis step

November 13, 2017 | xi'an

A definitely puzzled participant on X validated, confusing the Normal variate or variable used in the random walk Metropolis-Hastings step with its Normal density… It took some cumulated efforts to point out the distinction. Especially as the originator of the question had a rather strong a priori about his or ...

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rxylib Shiny

November 13, 2017 | Johannes Friedrich's R Blog

Start analysing your data online ... - I’m proud to announce my first shiny app rxylib Shiny. This little application is capable to plot and manipluate x-y data, fit them and download the results. It is a online version of the R-package rxy...

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Spatial networks – case study St James centre, Edinburgh (2/3)

November 13, 2017 | mikerspencer

This is part two in a series I'm writing on network analysis. The first part is here. In this section I'm going to cover allocating resources, again using the St James' development in Edinburgh as an example. Most excitingly (for me) the end of this post covers the impact of ...

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SQL Saturday statistics – Web Scraping with R and SQL Server

November 13, 2017 | tomaztsql

I wanted to check a simple query: How many times has a particular topic been presented and from how many different presenters. Sounds interesting, tackling the problem should not be a problem, just that the end numbers may vary, since there will be some text analysis included. First of all, ...

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Visualizing classifier thresholds

November 13, 2017 | Corey Chivers

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between prediction models and the decisions that they influence. There is a lot of theory around this, but communicating how the various pieces all fit together with the folks who will use and be impacted by these decisions can be ...

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New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!

November 13, 2017 | Ari Lamstein

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over... The post New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

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New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!

November 13, 2017 | Ari Lamstein

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over... The post New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

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New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!

November 13, 2017 | Ari Lamstein

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over... The post New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

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New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau!

November 13, 2017 | Ari Lamstein

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over... The post New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

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Beat the Delays: installing R and the BH package on a memory stick

November 13, 2017 | Jocelyn Ireson-Paine

I use R on a range of Windows machines. Often, I’ll only use these once, and they won’t already have R. So I want to carry an installation with me. So I decided to install R on a memory stick. Installing R itself worked, once I’d changed ... [Read more...]

Make memorable plots with memery. v0.3.0 now on CRAN.

November 13, 2017 | Matt Leonawicz

Make memorable plots with memery. memery is an R package that generates internet memes including superimposed inset graphs and other atypical features, combining the visual impact of an attention-grabbing meme with graphic results of data analysis. Version 0.3.0 of memery is now on CRAN. The latest development version and a package ... [Read more...]

Experiments with count(), tally(), and summarise(): how to count and sum and list elements of a column in the same call

November 13, 2017 | Jocelyn Ireson-Paine

Most people have a job. Some don’t. And a few have more than one. I’ve mentioned before that our economic model works on data about British households, gathered from surveys such as the Family Resources Survey. Each collection of data is a year long, and contains a file ... [Read more...]

Update on coordinatized or fluid data

November 12, 2017 | John Mount

We have just released a major update of the cdata R package to CRAN. If you work with R and data, now is the time to check out the cdata package. Among the changes in the 0.5.* version of cdata package: All coordinatized data or fluid data operations are now in ...

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ShinyProxy 1.0.2

November 12, 2017 | Open Analytics

ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Since our last blog post ten new releases of ShinyProxy have seen the light, but with the 1.0.2 release it is time to provide an overview of the lines of development and advances made. ...

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Simulating Insurance Claims

November 11, 2017 | Posts on Tychobra

When I was fresh out of college, my boss asked me to run some simulations in R. This was my first exposure to R, and I was initially skeptical of its practical usefulness. But with some Googling and a little perseverence, I overcame the initial frustra...

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