Last week Neil Kaye tweeted: Animating the Mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others.Focusing on a single country helps to see effect best.#dataviz #maps #GIS #projectionmapping #mapping pic.twitter.com/clpCiluS1z— Neil Kaye (@neilrkaye) October 12, 2018 This, of course, provoked ...

The last two days, I was in London for the M-cubed conference. Here are the slides from my talk about Explaining complex machine learning models with LIME: Traditional machine learning workflows focus heavily on model training and optimization; the be...

We knew we were on to something important early on in the process of organizing R / Medicine 2018. Even during our initial attempts to articulate the differences between this conference and R / Pharma 2018, it became clear that the focus on the use of R and statistics in clinical settings was going ...

Today I received in the mail a copy of the short book published by edp sciences after the courses we gave last year at the astrophysics summer school, in Autrans. Which contains a quick introduction to ABC extracted from my notes (which I still hope to turn into a book!). ...

Introduction Last week I announced the first release of MCHT, an R package that facilitates bootstrap and Monte Carlo hypothesis testing. In this article, I will elaborate on some important technical details about making MCHTest objects, explaining in the process how closures and R environments work. To recap, last week ...

Amazing artworks people made in R:See their source code and more arts at:http://www.r-graph-gallery.com/286-antonio-sanchez-dataart/

I love R and I love Shiny. One of the things I really like about shiny is the ease with which you can incorporate other Javascript based tools and libraries. By my own admission, my JavaScript skills are definitely lacking but there are so many cool libraries out there which ...

dplyr is much more useful than tapply, read on to find out why.

Once upon a time, we at STATWORX used Slack just as a messenger, but than everything changed when emojis came… Since then, we use them for all kinds of purposes. For example we take polls with them to see were we will eat lunch or we capture unforgettable moments by ...

Shiny modules are short (well, usually short) server and UI functions, that can be connected to each other by a common namespace, and be embedded within a regular Shiny app. You can’t run a Shiny module without a parent Shiny app. The modules can contain both inputs and outputs, ...

Principal components (PC) regression is a common dimensionality reduction technique in supervised learning. The R lab for PC regression in James et al.’s Introduction to Statistical Learning is a popular intro for how to perform PC regression in R: it is … Continue reading →