September 2018

Downloading 24-Hour Weather Updates in R

September 27, 2018 | George Mount

This post serves as a follow-up on a previous post about scheduled collection of Weather.gov’s XML feed in R, which itself was a follow-up to retrieving real-time data from Weather.gov in Excel. Reflecting on the best way to accomplishing this automation, I noticed something back on Weather....
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Introduction to tibbles

September 27, 2018 | Rsquared Academy Blog

Introduction A tibble, or tbl_df, is a modern reimagining of the data.frame, keeping what time has proven to be effective, and throwing out what is not. Tibbles are data.frames that are lazy and surly: they do less (i.e. they don’t change variable names or types, ... [Read more...]

Six Degrees of Zlatan Ibrahimovic

September 27, 2018 | schochastics

This post is based on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon which itself is an adoption of the Erdős number in math. Readers familiar with the concepts can skip the following paragraph and go directly to the calculation of the Zlatan number. I have done this before on my ...
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binb 0.0.2: Now with presento

September 27, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

As tweeted three days ago, our still-new binb package with crisper Beamer themes for RMarkdown now contains presento. Versions 0.0.2 with this addition just arrived on CRAN. Here is a quick demo combining all themes: Otherwise, we also added links t... [Read more...]

Individual level data

September 26, 2018 | R on Gianluca Baio

Cost-effectiveness analysis with individual level data You can do this practical either directly in BUGS, or running the scripts from R. If you are using the BUGS graphical interface, then you will need to open the relevant model files (e.g. normal-mo... [Read more...]

Individual level data

September 26, 2018 | R on Gianluca Baio

Cost-effectiveness analysis with individual level data You can do this practical either directly in BUGS, or running the scripts from R. If you are using the BUGS graphical interface, then you will need to open the relevant model files (e.g. normal-mo... [Read more...]

Strategizing Retirement Investments (In the US)

September 26, 2018 | Francis Smart

Major caveat! I have no investment training or finance training and all of my calculations are back of the envelope calculations put together from what information I can gather online. In addition, given that investment planning usually spans decades, massive uncertainties exist in tax schemes and expected rate of returns. ...
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3-D shadow maps in R: the rayshader package

September 26, 2018 | David Smith

Data scientists often work with geographic data that needs to be visualized on a map, and sometimes the maps themselves are the data. The data is often located in two-dimensional space (latitude and longitude), but for some applications we have a third dimension as well: elevation. We could represent the ... [Read more...]

Time Series with Matrix Profile

September 26, 2018 | Francisco Bischoff

Recently I began to look further into Time Series(TS). During the course of my Master’s degree, I used the forecast package quite a bit (Thanks to Prof. Hyndman), and TS got my attention. So, after reading lots of publications about everything you can imagine about TS, I came ...
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New Course: Generalized Linear Models in R

September 26, 2018 | Ryan Sheehy

Here is the course link. Course Description Linear regression serves as a workhorse of statistics, but cannot handle some types of complex data. A generalized linear model (GLM) expands upon linear regression to include non-normal distributions inc...
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Recap: Greater Cleveland R Users Lightning Talk

September 26, 2018 | George Mount

I am a regular attendee at the Greater Cleveland R Users Meetup and participated in the September 2018 Lightning Talks, in which a series of speakers gave ~8min presentations on talk running the gamut of R. My presentation came from the social science research world: statistical mediation. In my graduate program ...
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Scrapping BOE in search of post election designations

September 25, 2018 | Assorted things

Anyone with little contact with spanish adminstration, or just with interest in politics, knows that after a major change in the party ruling the goverment goes an important amount of dessignations in the highest levels of administration. I want to quantify this by counting the dessignations and cessations published in ...
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