Need help with R, data visualization, and/or statistics? Hire me or attend my 2 day workshop! As the maintainer of the R package plotly, I’m certainly aware that ggplotly() is not perfect.1 And, even when conversion from ggplot2 to plotly ‘works’ it can leave some things to be desired. ...

I wrote an open-source app called NBA Shots DB that uses the NBA Stats API to populate a database with all 4.5 million shots attempted in NBA games since 1996. The app also processes a dataset provided by Sportradar of over 1 million NCAA men’s shot attempts since 2013 into a format that ...

In previous post we discovered Dallas Animal Services data sources (available on Dallas Open Data) and successfully analyzed how animals get admitted to and discharged from the city shelters. We loaded actual shelter records and looked at the types of admittance, different outcomes and their relationships. In this post we ...

You have to have been living under a rock to not know about Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS offering. I won’t go into “privacy”, “security” or “speed” concepts in this post since that’s a pretty huge topic to distill for folks given the, now, plethora of confusing (and pretty ...

x[idxs + 1] or x[idxs + 1L]? That is the question. Assume that we have a vector $x$ of $n = 100,000$ random values, e.g. __ n x idxs y y typeof(idxs) [1] "integer" __ typeof(idxs + 1) [1] "double" __ typeof(1) [1] "double" Note also that doubles (aka “numerics” in R) take up twice the amount of ...

We are very pleased to announce the availability of an RStudio TensorFlow template for the Paperspace cloud desktop service. If you don’t have local access to a modern NVIDIA GPU, your best bet is typically to run GPU intensive training jobs...

Minmising risk of delayed departure - This post is an attempt to answer this question: https://community.rstudio.com/t/how-to-answer-a-question-without-statistical-tests-but-is-backed-by-data/3711 It was a pretty interesting question, and I...

A quick guide on setting up your own RStudio server on a Linode or other Debian-based UNIX server. The post Installing RStudio Server on Debian 9 appeared first on Doodling in Data.

The fs package makes it super quick and easy to find out just how much “package hoarding” you’ve been doing: While you can modify the above and peruse the list of packages/directories in tabular format or programmatically, you can also do a bit more work to get a ...

Deep learning is under active development. Papers with new approaches are being published every day. In this set of exercises we will go through some of the newer methods that boost the neural network’s performance. By the end of this post, you will be able to train neural networks ...

Track performance over time - A Bump Chart is a special form of a line plot. This kind of plot is designed for exploring changes in rank over time. The focus here is usually on comparing the position or performance of multiple observation...