On Friday, while working on a project that I needed to union multiple data.frames with different column names, I realized that the base::rbind() function doesn’t take data.frames with different columns names and therefore just quickly drafted a rbind2() function on the fly to get the job ...

In this post we will return to the data on Pitchfork music reviews, parts of which I’ve analyzed previously. The goal of this post will be to gain an understanding of distinctive words in the reviews of albums of different musical genres. This type of analysis helps us understand ...

In this post we will return to the data on Pitchfork music reviews, parts of which I've analyzed previously. The goal of this post will be to gain an understanding of distinctive words in the reviews of albums of different musical genres. This type of analysis helps us understand the ...

I’ve ended up (almost accidentally) collecting a number of different solutions to the “use a column to choose values from other columns in R” problem. Please read on for a brief benchmark comparing these methods/solutions. What we did is: build a 1,000,000 row variation of the original example. In ...

R is not just a tool for the data science elite. It is an immensely powerful tool that can be used by market researchers in...

ggplot is a wonderful package to make beautiful plots in R. For those who still just use standard R plots I really suggest you give a look at ggplot. The ggplot syntax may look a bit strange in the beginning but there are really good tutorials out there to help ...

I’d seen the small multiple artwork of running and cycling routes from Marcus Volz’s R package Strava all over the web. Ads for “posters of your GPS tracks” pop up on Reddit and I’d notice a few #Rstats people put up their posters on Twitter. I’ve ...

In a recent blog post our CEO Sebastian Heinz wrote about Google's newest stroke of genius – AutoML Vision. A cloud service "that is able to build deep learning models for image recognition completely fully automated and from scratch". AutoML Vision is part of the current trend towards the automation of ...

Finding the Location Furthest from Water in the Conterminous United States The idea for this post came a few months back when I received an email that started, “I am a writer and teacher and am reaching out to you with a question related to a piece I would like ...

Last week I spent some time reminiscing about my PhD and looking through some old R code. This trip down memory lane led to some of my old R scripts that amazingly still run. My R scripts were fairly simple and just created a few graphs. However now that I’...

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