July 2018

rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Educational Resources Work Well and Why?

July 24, 2018 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

In the first post of this series, we sketched out some of the common challenges faced by educators who teach with R across scientific domains. In this post, we delve into what makes a “good” educational resource for teaching science with R. For instructors teaching sciences with R, there are ...

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Interactive Tutorial on Dirichlet Processes Using R Shiny

July 24, 2018 | AO

For More posts on Bayesian models, Bayesian Nonparametrics, and causal inference follow me on twitter @stablemarkets. My advisor and his collaborator are teaching a short course on Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Causal Inference at JSM next week. A... [Read more...]

Machine Learning Results in R: one plot to rule them all! (Part 2 – Regression Models)

July 24, 2018 | Bernardo Lares

Given the number of people interested in my first post for visualizing Classification Models Results, I’ve decided to create and share some new function to visualize and compare whole Linear Regression Models with one line of code. These plots will help us with our time invested in model selection ...

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Boost the speed of R calls from Rcpp

July 24, 2018 | Iñaki Úcar

If you are a user who needs to work with Rcpp-based packages, or you are a maintainer of one of such packages, you may be interested in the recent development of the unwind API, which can be leveraged to boost performance since the last Rcpp update. In a nutshell, until ... [Read more...]

Rcpp 0.12.18: Another batch of updates

July 23, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

Another bi-monthly update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN early this morning following less than two weekend in the incoming/ directory of CRAN. As always, thanks to CRAN for all the work they do so well. So once more, this release follow... [Read more...]

Notes from the 1st Insurance Data Science event

July 23, 2018 | R | mages' blog

The first Insurance Data Science event was held at Cass Business School last week, 16 - 17 July 2018. The conference followed on from five iterations of the R in Insurance events, which have the aim of bringing together practitioners and academics together to discuss and exchange ideas and needs in the sector. ...

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Arthur blinked, Ford shrugs, but Zaphod leapt; text as graph

July 23, 2018 | Roel M. Hogervorst

Can we make the computer say something about characters in a book? In this piece I will search for the names of characters and the words around those names in books. What can we learn about a character from text analysis? Of course it’s also just another excuse for ...

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Notes from the 1st Insurance Data Science event

July 23, 2018 | R on mages' blog

rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Are The Challenges When Teaching Science With R?

July 23, 2018 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Educators who teach science using R tend to face common pedagogical problems, regardless of their scientific domain. Yet instructors who teach with R often feel isolated at their institutions. They may be the only ones in their de...

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Animating the Goals of the World Cup: Comparing the old vs. new gganimate and tweenr API!

July 23, 2018 | R by R(yo)

Welcome to Part 3 of my series on “Visualizing the World Cup with R”! This is the culmination of this mini project that I’ve been working on throughout the World Cup. In addition, from having listened to Thomas Pedersen’s ...

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Antipredator behavior with R (or why wildebeest should stay together)

July 23, 2018 | Javi Fernández-López

Hi there! In 2010, when I was studying my Biology Degree at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, I fell in love with a documentary miniseries called Great Migrations(National Geographic). Their episodes talk about awesome migrations of animals around the globe. One of these chapters is “Great Migrations: Science Of Migrations”. It ... [Read more...]

Census Academy Update!

July 23, 2018 | Ari Lamstein

Last year I announced a collaboration with the Census Bureau to help with their new online training platform. This website, called “Census Academy”, is designed to... The post Census Academy Update! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.

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EARL London interviews – Willem Ligtenberg, CZ

July 23, 2018 | Mango Solutions

For today’s interview, Ruth Thomson, Practice Lead for Strategic Advice spoke to Willem Ligtenberg, Data Scientist at CZ, a health insurance company in the Netherlands. Willem is presenting “Developing a Shiny application to predict work load” at EARL London and we got the chance to get a preview of ... [Read more...]

Confidentialise Your Data with the randomNames Package

July 23, 2018 | Daniel Oehm

Sensitive data has it’s restrictions for good reason. Personal data such as names and other identifiable information should be protected. […] The post Confidentialise Your Data with the randomNames Package appeared first on Daniel Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

Real-time data visualization using R and data extracting from SQL Server

July 23, 2018 | tomaztsql

In the previous post, I have showed how to visualize near real-time data using Python and Dash module. And it is time to see one of the many ways, how to do it in R. This time, I will not…Read more ›

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DALEX and H2O: Machine Learning Model Interpretability And Feature Explanation

July 22, 2018 | business-science.io - Articles

As advanced machine learning algorithms are gaining acceptance across many organizations and domains, machine learning interpretability is growing in importance to help extract insight and clarity regarding how these algorithms are performing and why one prediction is made over another. There are many methodologies to interpret machine learning results (i.... [Read more...]

Build a Quick Elo

July 22, 2018 | Analysis of AFL

One of my favourite sites is squiggle, mainly because I like to check out what other people have tipped, what their respective margins are and how they are aligned. As some of you know James and I have been working on an AFL R package called fitzRoy One of our ... [Read more...]

REST APIs and Plumber

July 22, 2018 | R Views

Moving R resources from development to production can be a challenge, especially when the resource isn’t something like a shiny application or rmarkdown document that can be easily published and consumed. Consider, as an example, a customer success model created in R. This model is responsible for taking customer ...

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future 1.9.0 – Output from The Future

July 22, 2018 | JottR on R

future 1.9.0 - Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone - is on CRAN. This is a milestone release: Standard output is now relayed from futures back to the master R session - regardless of where the futures are processed! Disclaimer: A future’s output is relayed only after ...

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Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

July 22, 2018 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

The gifski package which was demonstrated in May at eRum 2018 in Budapest is now on CRAN. Gifski is a simple but powerful package which can hopefully take away an important performance bottleneck for generating animated graphics in R. What is Gifski Gifski is a multi-threaded high-quality GIF encoder written in ... [Read more...]

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July 2018

rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Educational Resources Work Well and Why?

Interactive Tutorial on Dirichlet Processes Using R Shiny

Machine Learning Results in R: one plot to rule them all! (Part 2 – Regression Models)

Boost the speed of R calls from Rcpp

Rcpp 0.12.18: Another batch of updates

Notes from the 1st Insurance Data Science event

Arthur blinked, Ford shrugs, but Zaphod leapt; text as graph

Notes from the 1st Insurance Data Science event

rOpenSci Educators Collaborative: What Are The Challenges When Teaching Science With R?

Animating the Goals of the World Cup: Comparing the old vs. new gganimate and tweenr API!

Antipredator behavior with R (or why wildebeest should stay together)

Census Academy Update!

EARL London interviews – Willem Ligtenberg, CZ

Confidentialise Your Data with the randomNames Package

Real-time data visualization using R and data extracting from SQL Server

DALEX and H2O: Machine Learning Model Interpretability And Feature Explanation

Build a Quick Elo

REST APIs and Plumber

future 1.9.0 – Output from The Future

Gifski on CRAN: the fastest GIF encoder in the universe

July 2018

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