I was recently confronted to the following problem: creating hundreds of plots that could still be edited by our client. What this meant was that I needed to export the graphs in Excel or Powerpoint or some other such tool that was familiar to the client, and not export the ... [Read more...]

I do not always come up with new ideas for my blog, but rather get inspired by the great work of others. In this case, it was a reddit post by u/Cheapo_Sam, who charted world footballs greatest goal scorers in a marvelous way. According to the post, the ... [Read more...]

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The data science community is known for its rapid growth, experimenting with new statistical algorithms and always taking stock of the best new methods used across other industries. Last year we had a chance to attend EARL Boston and this year we had the pleasure to participate in EARL London. [Read more...]

With another brilliant EARL London behind us, we are now looking forward to bringing the conference to the US with three one day EARL Roadshow events! We couldn’t be more excited to bring the latest and greatest in R to three cities across America: Seattle – 7 November Houston – 9 November Boston – 13 ... [Read more...]

The sixth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than twelve-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. And it is (in ... [Read more...]

I remember the first time I saw a deep learning text generation project that was truly compelling and delightful to me. It was in 2016 when Andy Herd generated new Friends scenes by training a recurrent neural network on all the show’s episodes. Herd’s work went pretty viral at ... [Read more...]

I’ve lived in a couple of countries where talking (or more typically whinging) about the weather is a national past time so I took things one step further, by making a blog post about it! The past few months we’ve had an abso... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. R code by Barry Rowlingson to replicate an XKCD comic about curve fitting. The rayshader package creates 3-D relief maps in R with perspective, shadows, and depth of field. The R Developer's Guide ... [Read more...]

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Week 5 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining Week 5 (2018) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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Last call for the 2-day course on Text Mining with R, held next week (08-09 October 2018) in Brussels, Belgium. Subscribe at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsb2018-text-mining-with-r-jan-wijffels-bnosac-session-03-04-tickets-50586501588 You'll learn during that course the following: Cleaning of text data, regular expressions String distances Graphical displays of text ... [Read more...]

Does video replay descrease managerial ejections? [Read more...]

As a regular user of Madrid public libraries I’m glad of having found data about borrowed stuff. So let’s take a look at it and answer a couple of questions. Miguel de Cervantes Prize is one of the most richest literary prizes and the most prestigious of the ... [Read more...]

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NOTE: This is a repost of an article that was first published in 2016 Introduction Every so often while doing data analysis, I have come across a situation where I have two datasets, which have the same structure but with small differences in the ac... [Read more...]

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