In this previous post, I showed how one can scrape top-level NBA game data from BasketballReference.com. In the post after that, I demonstrated how to scrape play-by-play data for one game. After writing those posts, I thought to myself: why … Continue reading →

So…you want to play a pRank with R? This short post will give you a fun function you can use in R to help you out! How to change a file’s modified time with R Let’s say we have a file, test.txt. What if we want ...

Shiny is a great tool for fast prototyping. When a data science team creates a Shiny app, sometimes it becomes very popular. From that point this app becomes a tool used on production by many people, that should be reliable and work fast for many concurrent users. There are many ...

With this little helper you can load functions directly from an URL (e.g. from GitHub). Der Beitrag Day 18 – little helper burglr erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

Updated 2019-07-15 Motivation Just to remember the (good?) days when I was TA at college. Supply-demand classic figure For example, consider this classic supply-demand chart (right-click on the image to download the editable svg): Example 1: Up...

Samuel Berchuck is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Department of Statistical Science and Forge-Duke’s Center for Actionable Health Data Science. Joshua L. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University. Looking Forward in Glaucoma Progression Research The contribution of the womblR package and corresponding statistical ...

The Ecology Hackathon Almost one year ago now, ecologists filled a room for the “Ecology Hackathon: Developing R Packages for Accessing, Synthesizing and Analyzing Ecological Data” that was co-organised by rOpenSci Fellow, Nick Golding and Methods in Ecology and Evolution. This hackathon was part of the “Ecology Across Borders” Joint ...

Introduction Playing around with PyTorch and R Shiny resulted in a simple Shiny app where the user can upload a flower image, the system will then predict the flower species. Steps that I took Download labeled flower data from the … Continue reading →

This little helper is just a convenience function to set infinite values and NaNs to NA. Der Beitrag Day 17 – little helper to_na erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

In a new paper in Monthly Weather Review, minimum CRPS and maximum likelihood estimation are compared for fitting heteroscedastic (or nonhomogenous) regression models under different response distributions. Minimum CRPS is more robust to dist...

This little helper is our own STATWORX color palette. Der Beitrag Day 16 – little helper statworx_palette erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

Do you subscribe to the Data is Plural newsletter from Jeremy Singer-Vine? You probably should, because it is a treasure trove of interesting datasets arriving in your email inbox. In the November 28 edition, Jeremy linked to the Small World of Words project, and I was entranced. I love stuff like ...

Our linl package for writing LaTeX letter with (R)markdown had a fairly minor release today, following up on the previous release well over a year ago. This version just contains one change which Mark van der Loo provided a few months ago with a clea...