The post Decode Lyrics in Pop Music: Visualise Prose with the Songsim algorithm appeared first on The Lucid Manager. The lyrics of songs are more and more repetitive. Wihin this repetitiveness hides a summetrical beauty. The Songsim algorithm helps to decode lyrics. The post Decode Lyrics in Pop Music: Visualise ...

The data from the 2018 wave of the General Social Survey was released during the week, leading to a flurry of graphs showing various trends. The GSS is one of the most important sources of information on various aspects of U.S. society. One of the best things about it is ...

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Our latest tool development at STATWORX: random boost, an algorithm twice as fast as gradient boosting, with comparable prediction performance. Der Beitrag How to Speed Up Gradient Boosting by a Factor of Two erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

When this blog moved from bioinformatics to data science I ran a Twitter poll to ask whether I should start afresh at a new site or continue here. “Continue here”, you said. So let’s test the tolerance of the long-time audience and celebrate the start of the 2019 season as ...

Photo by Pankaj Patel on UnsplashAfter reading the O’Reilly book “Foundations for Architecting Data Solutions”, by Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman, I reflected on how I chose software/tools/solutions in the past and how I should choose them going forward. As a bioinformatician you need to be able ...

This spring, I’ll be giving talks at a couple of Meetups and conferences: March, 26th: At the data lounge Bremen, I’ll be talking about Explainable Machine Learning April, 11th: At the Data Science Meetup Bielefeld, I’ll be talking about Bu...

Components Qlik Sense is a tool for exploratory data analysis and visualisation. It’s powerful and versatile. It’s can, however, be significantly enhanced by interfacing with R. Qlik Sense does not currently integrate directly with R. However, it’s not too tricky to get the two systems talking to ...

Today we are presenting a new package, lconnect. This package is intended to be a very simple approach to derive landscape connectivity metrics. Many of these metrics come from the interpretation of landscape as graphs. Additionally, it also provides a function to prioritize landscape patches based on their contribution to ...

Background Readability Formulas The Data Set Setup Packages Reading in the data Audience reactions Calculating readability scores Cleaning Again Exploration Views per day Changes over Time Viewership Topics Audience Laughter Engagement Conclusions Background This analysis came about because the dataset was the topic of the Stockholm R User Group (SRUG) ...

Background Readability Formulas The Data Set Setup Packages Reading in the data Audience reactions Calculating readability scores Cleaning Again Exploration Views per day Changes over Time Viewership Topics Audience Laughter Engagement Conclusions Background This analysis came about because the dataset was the topic of the Stockholm R User Group (SRUG) ...

Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When accessing an API or database in R, it is often necessary to provide credentials such as a login name and password. You may find yourself being prompted with something like this: When writing an R ...

Our lab is international. People born all over the world have come to work in my group. I’m proud of this fact, especially in the current political climate. I’ve previously used the GoogleMaps API to display a heat map on our lab webpage. It shows where in the ...

There’s a lot going on in the development version of {tidyr}. New functions for pivoting data frames, pivot_wide() and pivot_long() are coming, and will replace the current functions, spread() and gather(). spread() and gather() will remain in the package though: You may have heard a rumour that ...

One of the things I have always wondered about AFL fantasy is just who is the best fantasy player of all time? Not the fan who wins the most but who is the best player. So one possible idea would be to work out the fantasy scores of players going ...