January 2019

Under the Hood of AdaBoost

January 7, 2019 | Holly Emblem

A short introduction to the AdaBoost algorithmAn Ensemble Orchestra: Photo by Kael Bloom on UnsplashIn this post, we will cover a very brief introduction to boosting algorithms, as well as delve under the hood of a popular boosting algorithm, AdaBoost...
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RTest: pretty testing of R packages

January 7, 2019 | Sebastian Wolf

The specflow and cucumber.io for R. Enabling non-coders to interpret test reports for R-packages, moreover allowing non-coders to create test cases. A step towards simple r package validation. Table of contents Why RTest? What’s special about RTest? An example of a test implementation with RTest. Further Reading Why ...
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Image Compression with PCA in R

January 7, 2019 | Grzegorz

Introduction During my Master’s of Data Science studies at Faculty of Economics University of Warsaw, at Unsupervised Learning Classes I got a task to write a paper about Principal Component Analysis. The goal of this method is to “identify patterns in data and express the data in such a ...
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RcppStreams 0.1.2

January 6, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

A maintenance release of RcppStreams arrived on CRAN this afternoon. RcppStreams brings the excellent Streamulus C++ template library for event stream processing to R. Streamulus, written by Irit Katriel, uses very clever template meta-programming (... [Read more...]

Maintenance Updates of Future Backends and doFuture

January 6, 2019 | JottR on R

New versions of the following future backends are available on CRAN: future.callr - parallelization via callr, i.e. on the local machine future.batchtools - parallelization via batchtools, i.e. on a compute cluster with job schedulers (SLURM, SGE, Torque/PBS, etc.) but also on the local machine future.... [Read more...]

???? Project-oriented workflow

January 6, 2019 | Iegor Rudnytskyi

Be honest with yourself, how many times have you wanted to restart an on-going project from scratch throwing away the current folder? Or how many times have you had to rename files and adjust folder structure to make your project simple and clear? Not to mention, all these thousands of ...
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Timing the Same Algorithm in R, Python, and C++

January 6, 2019 | John Mount

While developing the RcppDynProg R package I took a little extra time to port the core algorithm from C++ to both R and Python. This means I can time the exact same algorithm implemented nearly identically in each of these three languages. So I can extract some comparative “apples to ... [Read more...]

2018 Volatility Recap

January 6, 2019 | quintuitive

2018 brought more volatility to the markets, which so far has spilled into 2019. Let’s take a look at the long term volatility history picture using the Dow Jones Industrial Average: Indeed, 2018 was the most volatile year since 2011. Relatively speaking however, the volatility is on the low end for a bear ... [Read more...]

Co-integration and Mean Reverting Portfolio

January 5, 2019 | statcompute

In the previous post https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2018/07/29/co-integration-and-pairs-trading, it was shown how to identify two co-integrated stocks in the pair trade. In the example below, I will show how to form a mean reverting portfolio with three or more stocks, e.g. stocks with co-integration, and also how to ... [Read more...]

gganimation for the nation

January 5, 2019 | HighlandR

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]

gganimation for the nation

January 5, 2019 | HighlandR

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]

A Review of JHU Data Science Specialization

January 5, 2019 | Wei Lin

When I first joined Inspire, I actually had very limited data science knowledge and programming experience. In order to get myself up to speed, I searched online for a self-paced MOOC. One course that came up was the data science specialization from Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. Several reasons that ...
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Making Original Bingo – Heart Theme

January 5, 2019 | R on Chi's Impe[r]fect Blog

I have learned how to draw a heart with mathmatical equation, in fact there are so many “curves” you can draw with equation. Amazing, right?!? You can find all sorts of different curves on Wolfram Mathworld site. I’m really curious how did people find equation itself for some of ...
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gganimation for the nation

January 5, 2019 | HighlandR

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]
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