Alright, seems like this is developing into a blog where I am increasingly investigating my own music listening habits.Recently, I've come across the analyzelastfm package by Sebastian Wolf. I used it to download my complete listening history from Last.FM for the last ten years. That's a complete dataset ...

CategoriesVisualizing Data Tags Best R Packages Data Visualisation R Programming The life cycle of Data science can never be completed without communicating the results of the analysis/research. In fact, Data Visualization is one of the areas where R as a language for Data science has got an edge over ...

A commonly asked question in the R community is: How can I parallelize the following for-loop? The answer almost always involves rewriting the for (...) { ... } loop into something that looks like a y

Judea Pearl said that much of machine learning is just curve fitting1 — but it is quite impressive how far you can get with that, isn’t it? In this blog post, we will look at the mother of all curve fitting problems: fitting a straight line to a number of ...

What are GANs? Some time ago, I showed you how to create a simple Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) for satellite imagery classification using Keras. ConvNets are not the only cool thing you can do in Keras, they are actually just the tip of an iceberg. Now,I think it’s ...

A good six months after the previous release, another small feature release of our pinp package for snazzier one or two column Markdown-based pdf vignettes got onto CRAN minutes ago as another [CRAN-pretest-publish] release indicating a fully automat...

Most vignettes are built when a package is built, but there are occasions where you just want to include a pdf. For example when you want to include a paper. Of course there is a package supporting this, but in … Continue reading →

Today unfortunetely one of the games best players and the current Bronwnlow Medalist Tom Mitchell has been injured and will probably miss the whole 2019 AFL season. This is horrible news as he was just coming off arguably his best season (winning the Brownlow Medal). He’s an incredibly gifted inside ...

By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It’s having real impacts on the lives of Federal government workers but they aren’t the only ones. Much of the interaction Federal ...

It's relatively easy to find the player who has scored the most goals in the last 12 years (hello, Lionel Messi). But which professional football (soccer) player is the best finisher, i.e. which player is most likely to put a shot they take into the goal? You can't simply use ...

More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here’s a run-down of various ???? updates: waffle The square pie chart generating waffle???? package now contains a nascent geom_waffle() so you can do things like this: library(hrbrthemes) library(waffle) library(tidyverse) tibble( parts = factor(rep(month.abb[1:3], 3), ...

In this post we will return to the Pitchfork music review data, parts of which I’ve analyzed in previous posts. Our goal here will be to use text mining and natural language processing (NLP) to understand linguistic signals of album quality. This typ...

In this post we will return to the Pitchfork music review data, parts of which I've analyzed in previous posts. Our goal here will be to use text mining and natural language processing (NLP) to understand linguistic signals of album quality. This type of analysis helps us understand what Pitchfork ...