October 2018

Statistics Sunday: What Fast Food Can Tell Us About a Community and the World

October 21, 2018 |

Two statistical indices crossed my inbox in the last week, both of which use fast food restaurants to measure a concept indirectly.First up, in the wake of recent hurricanes, is the Waffle House Index. As The Economist explains:Waffle House, a breakfas...

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Using the ExPanDaR package for panel data exploration

October 20, 2018 | An Accounting and Data Science Nerd's Corner

Did you ever want to do a quick exploratory pass on a panel data set? Did you ever wish to give somebody (e.g., a reviewer or a fellow researcher), the opportunity to explore your data and your findings but can’t provide your raw data? Do you get bored ...

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styler 1.1.0

October 20, 2018 | Lorenz Walthert

styler 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN. This release introduces new features and is fully backward-compatible. It also adapts to changes in the R parser committed into R devel (#419). Major changes are: styler can now style roxygen code examples in the source code of package. This might be helpful for package ... [Read more...]

Getting the data from the Luxembourguish elections out of Excel

October 20, 2018 | Econometrics and Free Software

In this blog post, similar to a previous blog post I am going to show you how we can go from an Excel workbook that contains data to flat file. I will taking advantage of the structure of the tables inside the Excel sheets by writing a function that extracts ... [Read more...]

A Lazy Function

October 20, 2018 | Cillian McHugh

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How to Make an Area Chart in R

October 20, 2018 | Tim Ali

Adding Data Before I can make a chart, I need to have some data. For this example, I will load a CSV data set which...

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Developing a package to analyze data of the hospital morbidity survey

October 19, 2018 | Assorted things

Introduction This post is going to be the most ambitious one so far. Months ago I decided to develope a R package from scratch to learn a little about the process. So I dug up some code I wrote and I got to the work. And of course, for a ...

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A Lazy Function

October 19, 2018 | R Blog on Cillian McHugh

It has been quite a while since I posted, but I haven’t been idle, I completed my PhD since the last post, and I’m due to graduate next Thursday. I am also delighted to have recently been added to R-bloggers.com so I’m keen to get back ... [Read more...]

Converting nested JSON to a tidy data frame with R

October 19, 2018 | r on Tony ElHabr

In this “how-to” post, I want to detail an approach that others may find useful for converting nested (nasty!) json to a tidy (nice!) data.frame/tibble that is should be much easier to work with. 1 For this demonstration, I’ll start out by scraping National Football League (NFL) 2018 regular ... [Read more...]

RSAGA 1.0.0

October 19, 2018 | Marc Becker

[view raw Rmd] RSAGA 1.0.0 has been released on CRAN. The RSAGA package provides an interface between R and the open-source geographic information system SAGA, which offers a variety of geoscientific methods to analyse spatial data. SAGA GIS is supp... [Read more...]

Statistics Challenge Invites Students to Tackle Opioid Crisis Using Real-World Data

October 19, 2018 | ThisIs Stats

In 2016, 2.1 million Americans were found to have an opioid use disorder (according to SAMHSA), with drug overdose now the leading cause of injury and death in the United States. But some of the country’s top minds are working to fight this epidemic, and statisticians are helping to lead the ...

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Solving the chinese postman problem

October 19, 2018 | arthur charpentier

Some pre-Halloween post today. It started actually while I was in Barcelona : kids wanted to go back to some store we’ve seen the first day, in the gothic part, and I could not remember where it was. And I said to myself that would be quite long to do ...

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Gold-Mining Week 7 (2018)

October 19, 2018 | Michael Griebe

Week 7 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go check out our cheat sheet for this week. The post Gold-Mining Week 7 (2018) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

New Course: Interactive Data Visualization with rbokeh

October 19, 2018 | Ryan Sheehy

Here is the course link. Course Description Data visualization is an integral part of the data analysis process. This course will get you introduced to rbokeh: a visualization library for interactive web-based plots. You will learn how to use rbokeh l...

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New Course: Visualization Best Practices in R

October 19, 2018 | Ryan Sheehy

Here is the course link. Course Description This course will help you take your data visualization skills beyond the basics and hone them into a powerful member of your data science toolkit. Over the lessons we will use two interesting open datasets t...

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Loops and Pizzas

October 19, 2018 | Marcelo S. Perlin

An Introduction to Loops in R - Loops in R First, if you are new to programming, you should know that loops are a way to tell the computer that you want to repeat some operation for a number of times. This is a very common task t... [Read more...]

Loops and Pizzas

October 18, 2018 | R on msperlin

Loops in R First, if you are new to programming, you should know that loops are a way to tell the computer that you want to repeat some operation for a number of times. This is a very common task that can be found in many programming languages. For example, ... [Read more...]

Probability of Getting Zero Points in Dr. Burnörium’s Psycho Dice Game

October 18, 2018 | Curiosity

“What is the probability of ending a round with zero points in Dr. Burnörium’s Psycho Dice Russian Roulette Game?” That question came up during a Psycho Dice gaming session, when we noticed that turns ending with zero points occur about a quar...

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survHE new release

October 18, 2018 | R on Gianluca Baio

I have just submitted a revised version of survHE on CRAN — it should be up very shortly. This will be version 1.0.64 and its main feature is a major restructuring in the way the rstan/HMC stuff works. Basically, this is due to a change in the default C++ compiler. I ... [Read more...]

Maryland’s Bridge Safety, reported using R

October 18, 2018 | David Smith

A front-page story in the Baltimore Sun reported last week on the state of the bridges in Maryland. Among the report's findings: 5.4% of bridges are classified in "poor" or "structurally deficient" condition 13% of bridges in the city of Baltimore are in "poor" condition Those findings were the result of analysis ... [Read more...]

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