May 2018

How a country powers itself reveals policy, economic priorities

May 6, 2018 | Michael Caballero

Energy is a core sector Businesses from agriculture to tech rely on energy. Governments often generate or own power plants as well as craft energy policy. Expanding the energy sector while reducing greenhouse gas emissions for a power-hungry planet has been a topic of discussion for the past several decades. ...

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Meteorites

May 6, 2018 | Dragos Ilas

Meteors are small pieces of space debris that fall down on the Earth every day. The vast majority of meteors burn up high in the atmosphere, but those few that reach the ground intact are called meteorites. For this project, I wanted to get a sense of where on the ...

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ggplot2: Themes

May 6, 2018 | Rsquared Academy Blog

Introduction This is the last post in the series Elegant Data Visualization with ggplot2. In the previous post, we learnt to combine multiple plots. In this post, we will learn to modify the appearance of all non data components of the plot such as: axis legend panel plot area background ...

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Using quantities to parse data with units and errors

May 6, 2018 | Iñaki Úcar

Reporting quantities Parsing quantities A flexible errors parser Unit parsing Summary Next steps [view raw Rmd] This is the second blog post on quantities, an R-Consortium funded project for quantity calculus with ... [Read more...]

Get your Jupyterhub box set up on Linode with a single go!

May 6, 2018 | Chris

Sometimes, we all need a research box spun up quickly. Here’s our way to a well-configured box in ten minutes. The post Get your Jupyterhub box set up on Linode with a single go! appeared first on Doodling in Data. [Read more...]

RcppMsgPack 0.2.2

May 6, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

Am maintenance release of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN this afternoon. It contains a single static_cast fix to address a warning which g++-8.1 shows whereas older compilers remained silent---and CRAN asked us to address this. MessagePack itself is an ef... [Read more...]

Analyzing Spotify Song Metrics to Visualize Popular Songs

May 6, 2018 | Josh Vichare

How would you go about describing your favorite new song? What makes it catchy to you? According to the people at Spotify, characteristics like like energy or mood of a song can actually be quantified, and have many algorithms to describe music in an amazing amount of ways. Now, why ... [Read more...]

Statistics Sunday: Tokenizing Text

May 6, 2018 |

Statistics Sunday: Tokenizing TextI recently started working my way through Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach by Julia Silge and David Robinson. There are many interesting ways text analysis can be used, not only for research interests but for marketing and business insights. Today, I'd like to introduce one ...

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Send tweets from R: A very short walkthrough

May 6, 2018 | Sascha W.

There are a few reasons why you might want to send tweets from R. You might want to write a Twitter bot or - as in my case - you want to send yourself a tweet when a very long computation finishes.So, here I will run you through all ...

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Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 8

May 5, 2018 | Tinniam V Ganesh

1. Introduction You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either. Marvin Minsky A wealth of information creates a poverty of ...

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On Relocating to Github/Netlify

May 5, 2018 | Posts on Anything Data

Deep, labored breathing Hello everyone, this is the opening post on my new blog, which I’m relocating from Wordpress to GitHub Pages and Netlify. It’s so nice I’ve given it a name - because nice things have names! But, why was I panting? The relocation effort wasn’... [Read more...]

Bad Stock Photos of My Job? Data Science on Pexels

May 5, 2018 | Posts on Maëlle's R blog

I couldn’t miss the fun Twitter hashtag #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob thanks to a tweet by Julia Silge and another one by Colin Fay. The latter inspired me to actually go and look for what makes a data science photo… What characterizes “data science” stock photos? My (not bad) stock photo source ...

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Bad Stock Photos of My Job? Data Science on Pexels

May 5, 2018 | Maëlle Salmon

Remove password protection from Excel sheets using R

May 5, 2018 | markheckmann

Most data scientists wished that all data lived neatly managed in some DB. However, in reality, Excel files are ubiquitous and often a common way to disseminate results or data within many companies. Every now and then I found myself in the situation where I wanted to protect Excel sheets ...

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Install github package on safe haven server

May 5, 2018 | Ewen Harrison

I’ve had few enquires about how to install the summarizer package on a server without internet access, such as the NHS Safe Havens. Upload summarizer-master.zip from here to server. Unzip. Run this: library(devtools) source = devtools:::source_pkg("summarizer-master") install(source) [Read more...]

R as learning tool: solving integrals

May 5, 2018 | Roberto Palloni

Integrals are so easy only math teachers could make them difficult.When I was in high school I really disliked math and, with hindsight, I would say it was just because of the the prehistoric teaching tools (when I saw this video I thought I’m not alone). I strongly ...

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NYC Real Estate Market Visualization

May 5, 2018 | Phoebe Zhou

Did you ever wonder where the most popular neighborhoods are in New York City? Where the most expensive neighborhoods are located at? What kind of properties are people buying and what is their median price? With these questions in mind. I started my project hoping to map all the answers ...

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Confessions of a Data Scientist: Why I quit social media and still cut my own grass

May 5, 2018 | scottmutchler

I hate to have to read a long blog post before I get to the payoff. So here is mine: Social media fosters a short attention span by triggering a dopamine (reward) response in our brains. Innovation in Data Science (and many other technical fields) requires deep thought. Mindless tasks ...

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RStudio:addins part 1 – code reproducibility testing

May 5, 2018 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction This is the first post in the RStudio:addins series. The aim of the series is to walk the readers through creating an R package that will contain functionality for integrating useful addins into the RStudio IDE. At the end of this first article, your RStudio will be 1 useful ... [Read more...]

RStudio:addins part 1. – code reproducibility testing

May 5, 2018 | Jozef's Rblog

Contents Introduction Prerequisites and recommendations Step 1 - Creating a package Step 2 - Writing the first functions Step 3 - Setting up an addin Step 4 - Updating our DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE What is next - Always paying our (technical) debts Wrapping up TL;DR - Just give me the package References Introduction ... [Read more...]

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May 2018

How a country powers itself reveals policy, economic priorities

Meteorites

ggplot2: Themes

Using quantities to parse data with units and errors

Get your Jupyterhub box set up on Linode with a single go!

RcppMsgPack 0.2.2

Analyzing Spotify Song Metrics to Visualize Popular Songs

Statistics Sunday: Tokenizing Text

Send tweets from R: A very short walkthrough

Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 8

On Relocating to Github/Netlify

Bad Stock Photos of My Job? Data Science on Pexels

Bad Stock Photos of My Job? Data Science on Pexels

Remove password protection from Excel sheets using R

Install github package on safe haven server

R as learning tool: solving integrals

NYC Real Estate Market Visualization

Confessions of a Data Scientist: Why I quit social media and still cut my own grass

RStudio:addins part 1 – code reproducibility testing

RStudio:addins part 1. – code reproducibility testing

May 2018

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