Statisfix - Which fixing should I buy? I have a bathroom cabinet to put up. It needs to go onto a tiled plasterboard (drywall) wall. Because of the tiles, I can’t use the fixings I normally use to keep heavy objects fixed to the wall. A...

Statisfix - Which fixing should I buy? I have a bathroom cabinet to put up. It needs to go onto a tiled plasterboard (drywall) wall. Because of the tiles, I can’t use the fixings I normally use to keep heavy objects fixed to the wall. A...

Peter Meissner (@marvin_dpr) released crossword.r? to CRAN today. It’s a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles. He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive puzzle. I thought I’d ...

As I anticipated earlier, we're now ready to open registration for our Summer School in Florence (I was waiting for UCL to set up the registration system and thought it may take much longer than it actually did $-$ so well done UCL!).We'll probably have a few changes here ...

Introduction This is the eleventh post in the series Elegant Data Visualization with ggplot2. In the previous post, we learnt to build box plots. In this post, we will learn to build histogram specify bins modify color fill alpha bin width line type line size map aesthetics to variables A ...

As I anticipated earlier, we’re now ready to open registration for our Summer School in Florence (I was waiting for UCL to set up the registration system and thought it may take much longer than it actually did $-$ so well done UCL!). We’ll probably have a few ...

As I anticipated earlier, we’re now ready to open registration for our Summer School in Florence (I was waiting for UCL to set up the registration system and thought it may take much longer than it actually did $-$ so well done UCL!). We’ll probably have a few ...

What is SatRday? SatRday in Cape Town Be in it to win it Jumping Rivers is proud to be sponsoring the upcoming SatRday conference in Cape Town, South Africa on 17th March 2018. What is SatRday? SatRdays are a collection of free/cheap accessible ...

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Learning State Representations with Yael Niv: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk...

When fitting a Bayesian model using MCMC (often via JAGS/BUGS/Stan), a number of checks are typically performed to make sure your model is worth interpreting without further manipulation (remember: all models are wrong, some are useful!): R-hat (AKA Gelman-Rubin statistic) … Continue reading →

We’re doing some interesting studies (cybersecurity-wise, not finance-wise) on digital currency networks at work-work and — while I’m loathe to create a geo-map from IPv4 geolocation data — we: do get (often, woefully inaccurate) latitude & longitude data from our geolocation service (I won’t name-and-shame here); and, there are definite ...

After last year’s successful premiere, the eoda R-Akademie on the Road will be back in Hamburg this year for four inspiring days of professional R training for data scientists, programmers and R enthusiasts. The program for German-speaking users will start with a two-day introduction to R on 17-18 April. ...