As referenced in my last blog post, useR Delhi NCR is all set to host our second meetup on 15th December, i.e. upcoming Saturday. We’ve finalized two exciting speaker sessions for the same. They’re as follows: Basics of Shiny and …

This little helper reads in multiple files of the same type and combines them into a data.table. Der Beitrag Day 13 – little helper read_files erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

For each NBA game, nba.com has a really nice graphic which tracks the point differential between the two teams throughout the game. Here is the lead tracker graphic for the game between the LA Clippers and the Phoenix Suns on … Continue reading →

Are multiple births on the increase? My twin boys turned 5 years old today. Wow, time flies. Life is never dull, because twins are still seen as something of a novelty, so wherever we go, we find ourselves in conversation with strangers, who...

Are multiple births on the increase? My twin boys turned 5 years old today. Wow, time flies. Life is never dull, because twins are still seen as something of a novelty, so wherever we go, we find ourselves in conversation with strangers, who...

This little helper is a debug function if you do not work with RStudio. Der Beitrag Day 12 – little helper dive erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

Visualizing Hurricane Data with Shiny Motivation for Project Around the time that I was selecting a topic for this project, my parents and my hometown found themselves in the path of a Category 1 hurricane. Thankfully, everyone was ok, and there was only minor damage to their property. But this event ...

I am extremely proud to announce that Geocomputation with R is complete. It took Robin, Jannes, and me almost 2 years of collaborative planning, writing, refinement, and deployment to make the book available for anyone interested in open source, command-line approaches for handling geographic data. We’re very happy that it’...

This is code that accompanies a book chapter on customer churn that I have written for the German dpunkt Verlag. The book is in German and will probably appear in February: https://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/13208/9783864906107-data-science.html. The code you find below can be used to recreate all figures ...

This week I’ve been attending the Functional Data and Beyond workshop at the Matrix centre in Creswick. I spoke yesterday about using ggplot2 for functional data graphics, rather than the custom-built plotting functionality available in the many functional data packages, including my own rainbow package written with Hanlin Shang. ...