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I just finished teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis at the IQMR summer school at Syracuse. With three lecture and three labs the problem every year is getting the right R packages onto people’s machines. In particular, anything that involves compilation – and when you’re using quanteda, readtext, and stm, that’... [Read more...]

A new minor version of the nanotime package for working with nanosecond timestamps just arrived on CRAN. nanotime uses the RcppCCTZ package for (efficient) high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution, and the bit64 pac... [Read more...]

Abstract: We work out the math behind the so called income mountain plots used in the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling and use these insight to generate such plots using tidyverse code. The trip includes a mixture of log-normals, the density transformation theorem, histogram vs. density and then skipping all ... [Read more...]

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One of the ways Deep Learning can be used in business is to improve the accuracy of time series forecasts (prediction). We recently showed how a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Models developed with the Keras library in R could be used to take advantage of autocorrelation to predict the ... [Read more...]