February 2019

Robust Regressions: Dealing with Outliers in R

February 26, 2019 | Michael Grogan

Robust Regressions in R CategoriesRegression Models Tags Machine Learning Outlier R Programming Video Tutorials It is often the case that a dataset contains significant outliers – or observations that are significantly out of range from the majority of other observations in our dataset. Let us see how we can use robust ...
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Statistical Process Control (SPC) in R

February 26, 2019 | Nagdev

  Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a quality control technique that uses statistical techniques to monitor and control the process and product quality. Although this is an age old technique, this is widely used in various applications such as manufacturing, health care, banking and other service related industries. In this blog ... [Read more...]

Customers who bought…

February 26, 2019 | Learning Machines

One of the classic examples in data science (called data mining at the time) is the beer and diapers example: when a big supermarket chain started analyzing their sales data they encountered not only trivial patterns, like toothbrushes and toothpaste being bought together, but also quite strange combinations like beer ... [Read more...]

Making thematic maps for Belgium

February 26, 2019 | Super User

For people from Belgium working in R with spatial data, you can find excellent workshop material on creating thematic maps for Belgium at https://workshop.mhermans.net/thematic-maps-r/index.html by Maarten Hermans (researcher at the HIVA - Onderzoeksinstituut voor Arbeid en Samenleving - https://mhermans.net). The plots are ... [Read more...]

Gartner’s 2019 Take on Data Science Software

February 25, 2019 | Bob Muenchen

I've just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner's 2019 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the trouble of digging through all 40+ pages of my report, here's just the updated section: Continue reading →
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Logistic regression in R using blorr package

February 25, 2019 | Rsquared Academy Blog

We are pleased to introduce the blorr package, a set of tools for building and validating binary logistic regression models in R, designed keeping in mind beginner/intermediate R users. The package includes: comprehensive regression output variable selection procedures bivariate analysis, model fit statistics and model validation tools various plots ...
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Four Dataviz Posters

February 25, 2019 | R on kieranhealy.org

I was asked for some examples of posters I’ve made using R and ggplot. Here are four. Some of these are done from start to finish in R, others involved some post-processing in Illustrator, usually to adjust some typographical elements or add text in a sidebar. I’ve linked ... [Read more...]

R Journal Volume 10/2, December 2018 is out!

February 25, 2019 | John Mount

We forgot to say: R Journal Volume 10/2, December 2018 is out! A huge thanks to the editors who work very hard to make this possible. And big “thank you” to the editors, referees, and journal for helping improve, and for including our note on pipes in R.
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