October 2018

Find Salamander — Congressional District Gerrymandering

October 22, 2018 | R & Census

When Republicans or Democrats are in charge, they tend to draw election district boundaries to their favor. This can go very ugly, creating wacky boundaries by a practice called Gerrymandering. The word “Gerrymander” is a blend of two species: the Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry and a mythological salamander, a dragon-like ... [Read more...]

Cross-over study design with a major constraint

October 22, 2018 | Keith Goldfeld

Every new study presents its own challenges. (I would have to say that one of the great things about being a biostatistician is the immense variety of research questions that I get to wrestle with.) Recently, I was approached by a group of researchers who wanted to evaluate an intervention. ...
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Maximized Monte Carlo Testing with MCHT

October 22, 2018 | ntguardian

Introduction I introduced MCHT two weeks ago and presented it as a package for Monte Carlo and boostrap hypothesis testing. Last week, I delved into important technical details and showed how to make self-contained MCHTest objects that don’t suffer side effects from changes in the global namespace. In this ...
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The Mysterious Ellipsis: Tutorial

October 22, 2018 | Yanir Mor

If you have any basic experience with R, you probably noticed that R uses three dots ellipsis (…) to allow functions to take arguments that weren’t pre-defined or hard-coded when the function was built. Even though R beginners are usually aware of this behavior, especially due to some common functions ...
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Hacking strings with stringr

October 21, 2018 | Rsquared Academy Blog

Introduction In this post, we will learn to work with string data in R using stringr. As we did in the other posts, we will use a case study to explore the various features of the stringr package. Let us begin by installing and loading stringr and a set of ...
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The tweenr is all grown up

October 21, 2018 | Data Imaginist

NOTE: tweenr was released some time ago but a theft of my computer while writing the release post meant that I only just finished writing about it now. I’m very happy to once again announce a package update, as a new major version of tweenr is now on CRAN. ...
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Searching for R Packages

October 21, 2018 | R Views

Searching for R packages is a vexing problem for both new and experienced R users. With over 13,000 packages already on CRAN, and new packages arriving at a rate of almost 200 per month, it is impossible to keep up. Package names can be almost anything, and they are rarely informative, so ...
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Faceted Graphs with cdata and ggplot2

October 21, 2018 | Nina Zumel

In between client work, John and I have been busy working on our book, Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition. To demonstrate a toy example for the section I’m working on, I needed scatter plots of the petal and sepal dimensions of the iris data, like so: I ...
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automl package: part 1/2 why and how

October 21, 2018 | Alex Boulangé

Why & how automl package automl package provides: Deep Learning last tricks (those who have taken Andrew NG’s MOOC on Coursera will be in familiar territory) hyperparameters autotune with metaheuristic (PSO) experimental stuff and more to come (you’re welcome as coauthor!) Deep Learning existing frameworks, disadvantages Deploying and maintaining ...
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