Thank you for the many requests to provide some extra info on how best to get finalfit results out of RStudio, and particularly into Microsoft Word. Here is how. Make sure you are on the most up-to-date version of finalfit. [crayon-5b04b4e219aae502138484/] What follows is for demonstration ...

First, let me say I would love to have an “easy button” for predictive analytics. Unfortunately, predictive analytics is hard work that requires deep subject matter expertise in both the business problem and data science.  I’m not trying to be provocative with this post.  I just want to share ...

How Has Taylor Swift's Word Choice Changed Over Time?Sunday night was a big night for Taylor Swift - not only was she nominated for multiple Billboard Music Awards; she took home Top Female Artist and Top Selling Album. So I thought it was a good time for some more ...

Have you ever wanted to schedule tasks from R and run routine analytics repeatedly at regular intervals? Here's the best way to do it. The post Automagic epi curve plotting: part I appeared first on Doodling in Data.

We are pleased to announance upcoming Why R? 2018 conference that is going to happen in central-eastern Europe (Poland, Wroclaw) this July (2-5th). It is the last week for the call for papers! Submit your talk here. About More about the conference one can find on the conference website whyr2018....

Getting Started Getting set up with the Google Maps API Using the API The Source Data Lookup the Records Using placement Using ggmap Using Googleway Reviewing Initial Results Tackling Abbreviations Lookup edited names Bringing the data together Assessing the Quality of Geocoding Preprocess the Data and Rerun the Query Duplicated ...

Tiny things can separate life into “before” and “after”. Here is one. For almost a year I’ve been daily sending mental “thank you” to Ugo (@ugobas) who showed me how to re-organize panes in RStudio. Since then I’ve been spreading this tiny improvement so many times that I ...

Registration is now open for my 1.5-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. It will take place on July 5th & 6th in Münster, Germany. You can read about one participant’s experience in my last workshop: Big Data – a buzz word you can find everywhere ...

The competition It’s competition time! We’re sponsoring Why R? 2018 Conference. The conference runs from the 2-5th of July in Wroclaw, Poland and us nice folks here at Jumping Rivers are giving away a free ticket to the conference! The competition To enter your name into the prize ...

Aimée Gott, Education Practice Lead I always find it difficult to pick highlights from a conference and the eRum 2018 team did a fantastic job of making it difficult for me once again, so here goes... Day One The first day offered a huge choice in workshops, but teaching one ...

With fewer than three weeks left in the June 7 provincial elections in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province with 14.2 million persons, the expected outcome is far from certain.The weekly opinion polls reflect the volatility in public opinion. Progressive Conservatives (PC), one of the main opposition parties, is in the ...

NOTE: Annoyingly, the remote mathjax server often takes it's sweet time rendering LaTex equations (like, up to a minute or more!!!). I don't know if this is deliberate on the part of Google or a bug. It used to be faster. If anyone knows, I'd be interested to hear; especially ...

Using fitzRoy and the tidyverse

library(fitzRoy)
library(tidyverse)

## -- Attaching packages ----------------------- tidyverse 1.2.1 --

## v ggplot2 2.2.1     v purrr   0.2.5
## v tibble  1.4.2     v dplyr   0.7.6
## v tidyr   0.8.1     v stringr 1.3.1
## v readr   1.1.1     v forcats 0.3.0

## -- Conflicts -------------------------- tidyverse_conflicts() --
## x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
## x dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()

So what we did before, was we created 3 variables from afltables about Tony Lockett. They were Year (afl season), GM (totals games played in afl season) and GL (total goals kicked in season). These are summary statistics i.e. the year ...

One of the fun things when doing graphs, is that moment when you identify something that sticks out. A great example of this is done by ethan_meldrum In it we can see how much Paul Seedsman 2018 has stood out so far. Lets give it the ggplot/fitzRoy treatment. Step ...

Abstract Unexploded WWII bombs are ticking threats despite being dropped more than 70 years ago. In this post we explain how statistical methods are used to plan the search and disposal of unexploded WWII bombs. In particular we consider and exemplify the non-parametric nearest neighbour distance (NND) method implemented in the ...

lIt is fairly easy to link Github or Bitbucket with RStudio, in order to enable version control, or in order to work collectively on a data project, science article, or book. It can also be used to make your data or project publicly accessible (however, there is no guarantee that ...