How can we use data analytics to increase our self-knowledge? Along with biofeedback from digital devices like FitBit, less structured sources such as sent emails can provide insights. E.g. here it seems my communication took a sudden more positive tu...

The “Gold Standard” for Data Science Project ManagementThe inspiration for this post came most recently from a slide-deck by Ming Tang, a Bioinformatician at Harvard, and a new Chromebook Data Science course offered by Jeffery Leek from John Hopkin...

Each time we face real applications in an applied econometrics course, we have to deal with categorial variables. And the same question arise, from students : how can we combine automatically factor levels ? Is there a simple R function ? I did upload a few blog posts, over the pas years. But ...

Working with panel data in R: Fixed vs. Random Effects CategoriesAdvanced Modeling Tags Linear Regression Logistic Regression R Programming Video Tutorials Panel data, along with cross-sectional and time series data, are the main data types that we encounter when working with regression analysis. Types of data Cross-Sectional: Data collected at ...

This started out as a “hey, I wonder…” sort of thing, but as usual, they tend to end up as interesting voyages into the deepest depths of code, so I thought I’d write it up and share. Shoutout to [@coolbutuseless](https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless) for proving that a little ...

A while ago, I wrote two blogposts about image classification with Keras and about how to use your own models or pretrained models for predictions and using LIME to explain to predictions. Recently, I came across this blogpost on using Keras to extract learned features from models and use those ...

This started out as a “hey, I wonder…” sort of thing, but as usual, they tend to end up as interesting voyages into the deepest depths of code, so I thought I’d write it up and share. Shoutout to @coolbutuseless...Continue Reading →

7 easy steps to custom inputs in shiny A step by step guide on how to include custom inputs into R Shiny. This guide is going through an example of a custom input build from jQuery. After the tutorial you will be able to: Build your own front-end elements in shiny ...

CategoriesProgramming Tags Best R Packages R Programming Tips & Tricks In the age of smartphones, Notifications have become an integral part of life that Smart watches have started popping up to handle our notifications. Desktop Notification is a very good way of letting the user know about a task completion or ...

This new post was born because of my curiosity about this tweet: Italy 1960-2014: Big drop in annual number of births, big increase in ages of mothers. #Italy #fertility pic.twitter.com/QGT0AnA3IU — Carl Schmertmann (@CSchmert) 7 de febrero de 2018 Sometimes you just feel the urge to recreate some ...