Gold-Mining Week 16 (2018)
Week 16 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold!
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December 2018
Day 21 – little helper get_sequence
This little helper returns indices of recurring patterns. It works with numbers as well as with characters.
Der Beitrag Day 21 – little helper get_sequence erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.
Introduction to Redwall Analytics Nutmeg Open Data Project
Introduction
Redwall Analytics has spent the last couple of months gathering data from the State of Connecticut’s relatively new “open data initiative”. In recent months, we have made several posts on LinkedIn describing our explorations and looking at the some of the financial challenges faced by our home state: ... [Read more...]
SQL for Data Science – Part 1
Introduction
This is the third post in the series R & Databases. You can find the links to the other two posts of this series below:
Quick Guide: R & SQLite
Data Wrangling with dbplyr
SQL for Data Science - Part 2
In this post, we will learn to:
select
single column
multiple ... [Read more...]
Blogdown – shortcode for radix-like Bibtex
In the spirit of trying out new things in Hugo since my last post on modifying the RSS feed for this website, I attempted to implement the new citation feature from the new radix package by RStudio.
Essentially, I tried using a custom hugo shortcode to replicate the text and ... [Read more...]
November 2018: “Top 40” New Packages
Having absorbed an average of 181 new packages each month over the last 28 months, CRAN is still growing at a pretty amazing rate. The following plot shows the number of new packages since I started keeping track in August 2016.
This November, 171 new packages stuck to CRAN. Here is my selection for ...
Using the tidyverse for more than data manipulation: estimating pi with Monte Carlo methods
This blog post is an excerpt of my ebook Modern R with the tidyverse that you can read for
free here. This is taken from Chapter 5, which presents
the {tidyverse} packages and how to use them to compute descriptive statistics and manipulate data.
In the text below, I show how ... [Read more...]
R 3.5.2 now available
R 3.5.2, the latest version of the R language for statistical computation and graphics from the R Foundation, was released today. (This release is codenamed "Eggshell Igloo", likely in reference to this or this Peanuts cartoon.) Compared to R 3.5.1, this update includes only bug fixes, so R scripts and packages compatible ... [Read more...]
Your AI journey… and Happy Holidays!
I want to draw your attention to a very valuable (and short!) whitepaper from my colleague, Professor Andrew Ng, where he shares important insights on how to lead companies into the AI era. The five steps outlined in the paper are: Execute pilot projects to gain momentum Build an in-house ... [Read more...]
Q-learning example with Liar’s Dice in R
In my last post I coded Liar’s Dice in R and some brainless bots to play against. I build on […]
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Day 20 – little helper char_replace
This little helper replaces non-standard characters (such as the German umlaut "ä") with their standard equivalents (in this case "ae").
Der Beitrag Day 20 – little helper char_replace erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.
BH 1.69.0-0 pre-releases and three required changes
Our BH package provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R. It is quite popular, and frequently used together with Rcpp. The BH CRAN page shows e.g. that it is used by rstan, dplyr as well as a ... [Read more...]
Examining the Tweeting Patterns of Prominent Crossfit Gyms
A. Introduction The growth of Crossfit has been one of the biggest developments in the fitness industry over the past decade. Promoted as both a physical exercise philosophy and also as a competitive fitness sport, Crossfit is a high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and exercise protocols such ...
How to Scrape Data from a JavaScript Website with R
In September 2017, I found myself working on a project that required odds data for football. At the time I didn’t know about resources such as Football-Data or the odds-api, so I decided to build a scraper to collect data directly from the bookmakers... [Read more...]
Spelling 2.0: Improved Markdown and RStudio Support
We have released updates for the rOpenSci text analysis tools. This technote will highlight some of the major improvements in the spelling package and also the underlying hunspell package, which provides the spelling engine for the spelling package.
install.packages("spelling")
Update to the latest versions to use these cool ...
Package fuzzySim now on CRAN!
The fuzzySim package, which is regularly maintained on R-Forge, is finally also available on the CRAN official repository, in its latest version 2.0! Many thanks especially to Alba Estrada for invaluable help with bug search.
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Data, movies and ggplot2
Yet another boring barplot? No! I’ve asked my students from MiNI WUT to visualize some data about their favorite movies or series. Results are pretty awesome. Believe me or not, but charts in these posters are created with ggplot2 (most of them)! Star Wars Fan of StaR WaRs? Find ... [Read more...]
Spinning Pins
Condenado a estar toda la vida, preparando alguna despedida (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) I live just a few minutes from the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT), where I use to go from time to time with my family. The museum is plenty of interesting artifacts, from a portrait of ... [Read more...]
Day 19 – little helper clean_gc
This little helper frees your memory from unused objects. Well, basically it just calls gc() a few times.
Der Beitrag Day 19 – little helper clean_gc erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.
Pen plotter maps in R
I made a sweet Christmas present for my friend Clément, who cycles far too much. Last year he got himself a nice custom bicycle made and started documenting his travels.
So I grabbed the lot and started playing, and I pen-plotted his journeys on postcards.
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