2017

GitHub Streak: Round Four

October 12, 2017 | Thinking inside the box

Three years ago I referenced the Seinfeld Streak used in an earlier post of regular updates to to the Rcpp Gallery: This is sometimes called Jerry Seinfeld's secret to productivity: Just keep at it. Don't break the streak. and showed the first chart of GitHub streaking And two year ago ... [Read more...]

How to Scrape Pdf and Rmd to Get Inspiration

October 12, 2017 | QuestionFlow

The story of QuestionFlow origins. Prologue This post is a story about how I came up with an idea of QuestionFlow name by performing text analysis. Beware of a lot of code. Introduction My name is Evgeni and I am a mathematician with strong passion for data analysis and R. ... [Read more...]

.rprofile: David Smith

October 12, 2017 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

David Smith is a Blogger and Community Lead at Microsoft. I had the chance to interview David last May at rOpenSci unconf17. We spoke about his career, the process of working remote within a team, community development/outreach and his personal methods for discovering great content to share and write ...

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The Bold & Beautiful Character Similarities using Word Embeddings

October 12, 2017 | Longhow Lam

Introduction I often see advertisement for The Bold and The Beautiful, I have never watched a single episode of the series. Still, even as a data scientist you might be wondering how these beautiful ladies and gentlemen from the show … Continue reading →

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A cRyptic crossword with an R twist

October 12, 2017 | David Smith

Last week's R-themed crossword from R-Ladies DC was popular, so here's another R-related crossword, this time by Barry Rowlingson and published on page 39 of the June 2003 issue of R-news (now known as the R Journal). Unlike the last crossword, this one follows the conventions of a British cryptic crossword: the ... [Read more...]

Increasing Countries’ Happiness

October 12, 2017 | Dimitri Liakhovitski

This project is devoted to the important topic of country development and happiness. I found two interesting data sets on Kaggle: World Development Indicators - collected […] The post Increasing Countries' Happiness appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Increasing Countries’ Happiness

October 12, 2017 | Dimitri Liakhovitski

This project is devoted to the important topic of country development and happiness. I found two interesting data sets on Kaggle: World Development Indicators - collected […] The post Increasing Countries' Happiness appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Rick and Morty and Tidy Data Principles

October 12, 2017 | Mauricio Vargas S. 帕夏

Motivation After reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text and A tidy text analysis of Rick and Morty I thought about doing something similar but reproducible and focused on Rick and Morty. In this post I'll focus on the Tidy Data principles. However, here is the Github repo with ... [Read more...]

Putting the cat in scatterplot

October 12, 2017 | Mango Solutions

Clara Schartner, Data Scientist It will come as no surprise that cats and ggplot are among our favourite things here at Mango, luckily there is an easy way to combine both. Using the function annotation_custom in the popular ggplot2 package it is possible to display images on a plot ...

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Crypto Currencies as an investment vehicle

October 12, 2017 | QUENTIN PICARD

Introduction The goal of this document is to provide an overview of crypto currencies, also identified simply as “coins” and derive preliminary recommendations for investors in […] The post Crypto Currencies as an investment vehicle appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Crypto Currencies as an investment vehicle

October 12, 2017 | QUENTIN PICARD

Introduction The goal of this document is to provide an overview of crypto currencies, also identified simply as “coins” and derive preliminary recommendations for investors in […] The post Crypto Currencies as an investment vehicle appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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R live class | Machine Learning with R | Oct 25-26

October 12, 2017 | Quantide

If you want to find the structure hidden behind your data, this is right class for you: you will learn how to group similar observations using Clustering; how to “naturally” aggregate your variables using Dimensionality Reduction; how to predict outcomes using Regression and Classification (LMs, GLMs, Trees, Random forests, Neural ... [Read more...]

17 R Jobs for R users (2017-10-12) – from around the world

October 12, 2017 | Tal Galili

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. [Read more...]

XML parsing made easy: is that podcast getting longer?

October 12, 2017 | nsaunders

Sometime in 2009, I began listening to a science podcast titled This Week in Virology, or TWiV for short. I thought it was pretty good and listened regularly up until sometime in 2016, when it seemed that most episodes were approaching two hours in duration. I listen to several podcasts when commuting ...

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Gold-Mining – Week 6 (2017)

October 11, 2017 | Michael Griebe

Week 6 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining – Week 6 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct

October 11, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be ... [Read more...]

Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct

October 11, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be ... [Read more...]

Halifax, NS, Stan talk and course Thu 19 Oct

October 11, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

Halfiax, here we come. I (Bob, not Andrew) am going to be giving a talk on Stan and then Mitzi and I will be teaching a course on Stan after that. The public is invited, though space is limited for the course. Here are details if you happen to be ... [Read more...]

RcppArmadillo 0.8.100.1.0

October 11, 2017 | Thinking inside the box

We are thrilled to announce a new big RcppArmadillo release! Conrad recently moved Armadillo to the 8.* series, with significant improvements and speed ups for sparse matrix operations, and more. See below for a brief summary. This also required some changes at our end which Binxiang Ni provided, and Serguei Sokol ... [Read more...]

Shiny app: Distributions of random variables

October 11, 2017 | Matt's R Blog

There is a new version of my Distributions of Random Variables Shiny app available. This is a cleaned up modern revision of my original 2013 app series involving random variable probability distributions. The primary change is a switch to ggplot2 from ...

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