ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. scalability In our previous release (see this blog post) we announced our focus on scalability with support for Docker Swarm back-ends. With version 1.1.0 we moved to hyperscaling Shiny apps in the datacenter by ...

A threat to humanity - Since the rise and fall of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), almost no day passes without another terrorist attack in some part of the world. Though, in western media only a small number of attacks ar...

A threat to humanity - Since the rise and fall of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), almost no day passes without another terrorist attack in some part of the world. Though, in western media only a small number of attacks ar...

R FOR HYDROLOGISTS CORRELATION AND INFORMATION THEORY MEASUREMENTS (Part 2) Proposed back in the 40’s by Shannon Information theory provide a framework for the analysis of randomness in time-series, and information gain when comparing statistical models of inference. Information theory is based on probability theory and statistics. It often concerns itself ...

Another way of analysis? When there are so many tools and techniques of prediction modelling, why do we have another field known as survival analysis? As one of the most popular branch of statistics, Survival analysis is a way of prediction at various points in time. This is to say, ...

Insurance Data Science The abstract submission deadline for the Insurance Data Science conference at Cass Business School on 16 July 2018 is closing soon. You have until the 9th of April to submit your abstract. Please send your abstract to info@...

A couple of days ago I was asked to install MySQL on MacOS 10.13, and I was surprised that it was not a one-click installation, as in case of R. Unfortunately, even for me a documentation was a bit confusing, and I think it might be useful to have a guide ...

Olfactory Coding Detecting volatile chemicals and encoding these into neuronal activity is a vital task for all animals that is performed by their olfactory sensory systems. While these olfactory systems vary vastly between species regarding their numerical complexity, they are amazingly similar in their general structure. The periphery of olfactory ...

The abstract submission deadline for the Insurance Data Science conference at Cass Business School on 16 July 2018 is closing soon. You have until the 9th of April to submit your abstract. Please send your abstract to [email protected]. ...

Another R tip. Need to replace a name in some R code or make R code re-usable? Use wrapr::let(). Here is an example involving dplyr. Let’s look at some example data: library("dplyr") library("wrapr") starwars %__% select(., name, homeworld, species) %__% head(.) # # A tibble: 6 x 3 # name homeworld species # … Continue ...

I’m pleased to announce an update of my sjstats-package. New features are specifically implemented for the Anova and Bayesian statistic and summary functions. Here’s a short overview of what’s new… Anova statistics Beside the already implemented functions to calculate eta-squared, partial eta-squared and omega-squared, it is now ...

@drsimonj here to help you embark on git repo analyses! Ever wondered who contributes to git repos? How their contributions have changed over time? What sort of conventions different authors use in their commit messages? Maybe you were inspired by Mara Averick to contribute to tidyverse packages and wonder how ...

Third post from the short series about black-box explainers implemented in the DALEX package. Learn more about DALEX at SER (Warsaw, April 2018), eRum (Budapest, May 2018), WhyR (Wroclaw, June 2018) or UseR (Brisbane, July 2018). Two weeks ago I wrote about single variable conditional responses and last week I wrote about decompositions of ...