January 2019

Quantile regression in R

January 31, 2019 | kjytay

Quantile regression: what is it? Let be some response variable of interest, and let be a vector of features or predictors that we want to use to model the response. In linear regression, we are trying to estimate the conditional … Continue reading →
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Resources

January 31, 2019 | Educators R Learners

Below is a list of websites and books that I’ve found useful during my journey. As anyone who works in education knows, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all-approach to teaching and learning so, needless to say, your mileage will vary. Books R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham and Garrett ...
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About Me

January 31, 2019 | Educators R Learners

I started coding in Python at the age of 35 while in graduate school (thanks Sowmya!). Since then, I have learned the unbridled joy of using a language designed for a singular purpose: R. When I’m not delivering teacher-training workshops, doing analysis of language tests, or other job related activities, ...
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How GPL makes me leave R for Python :-(

January 31, 2019 | Hovav Dror

Being a data scientist in a startup I can program with several languages, but often R is a natural choice. Recently I wanted my company to build a product based on R. It simply seemed like a perfect fit. But this turned out to be a slippery slope into the ...
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Book review: Beyond Spreadsheets with R

January 30, 2019 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Disclaimer: Manning publications gave me the ebook version of Beyond Spreadsheets with R - A beginner’s guide to R and RStudio by Dr. Jonathan Carroll free of charge. Beyond Spreadsheets with R shows you how to take raw data and transform it for use in computations, tables, graphs, and ...
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missing digit in a 114 digit number [a Riddler’s riddle]

January 30, 2019 | xi'an

A puzzling riddle from The Riddler (as Le Monde had a painful geometry riddle this week): this number with 114 digits 530,131,801,762,787,739,802,889,792,754,109,70?,139,358,547,710,066,257,652,050,346,294,484,433,323,974,747,960,297,803,292,989,236,183,040,000,000,000 is missing one digit and is a product of some of the integers between 2 and 99. By comparison, 76! and 77! have 112 and 114 digits, respectively. While 99! has 156 digits. […]
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Fast Static Maps Built with R

January 30, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Luke Whyte posted an article (apologies for a Medium link) over on Towards Data Science showing how to use a command line workflow involving curl, node and various D3 libraries and javascript source files to build a series of SVG static maps. It’s well written and you should give ...
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Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2019 update

January 30, 2019 | nsaunders

Chains of amino acids strung together make up proteins and since each amino acid has a 1-letter abbreviation, we can find words (English and otherwise) in protein sequences. I imagine this pursuit began as soon as proteins were first sequenced, but the first reference to protein word-finding as a sport ... [Read more...]

December 2108: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

January 29, 2019 | R Views

By my count, 157 new packages stuck to CRAN in December. Below are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. This is the first time I have used the Medicine category. I am pleased that a few packages ...
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New R package: load and chart oceanic storms

January 29, 2019 | Blog - BS

Mapping historical storms data is now a little bit easier. Off the back of this blog, I have authored an R package (available at basilesimon/noaastorms) that downloads, cleans and parses NOAA IBtrack data for you. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases datasets known as International Best Track Archive ...
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Expected goals from bookmaker odds

January 29, 2019 | opisthokonta

I recently read an interesting paper called The Betting Odds Rating System: Using soccer forecasts to forecast soccer by Wunderlich and Memmert. In their paper they develop av variant of the good old Elo rating system. Instead of using the … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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