t-SNE is a useful dimensionality reduction method that allows you to visualise data embedded in a lower number of dimensions, e.g. 2, in order to see patterns and trends in the data. It can deal with more complex patterns of Gaussian clusters in multidimensional space compared to PCA. Although is ...

Practice makes better. And faster. But what exactly is the relation between practice and reaction time? In this blog post, we will focus on two contenders: the power law and exponential function. We will implement these models in Stan and extend them to account for learning plateaus and the fact ...

One hundred eighty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my picks for the “Top 40”, organized into ten categories: Biotechnology, Data, Econometrics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Biotechnology genpwr v1.00: Provides functions for power and sample size calculations for genetic association studies ...

We are excited to announce the latest major release of rIP (v1.2.0), which is an R package that detects fraud in online surveys by tracing, scoring, and visualizing IP addresses. Essentially, rIP takes an array of IP addresses, which are always captured in online surveys (e.g., MTurk), and the ...

After an extended hiatus, Reproducible Finance is back! We’ll celebrate by changing focus a bit and coding up an investment strategy called Momentum. Before we even tiptoe in that direction, please note that this is not intended as investment advice and it’s not intended to be a script ...

An analytical model for predicting employee flight risk behaviour “People are the nucleus of any organization. So, how can you find, engage and retain top performers who’ll contribute to your goals, your future?” There is no dearth of Enterpris...

In my ongoing quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, I've just updated my analysis of the job market. To save you from reading the entire tome, I'm reproducing that section here. Continue reading →

We had a journal club about the single step GBLUP method for genomic evaluation a few weeks ago. In this post, we’ll make a few graphs of how the single step method models relatedness between individuals. Imagine you want to use genomic selection in a breeding program that already ...

If you are having the following symptoms at your company when it comes to business KPI forecasting, then maybe you need to look at automated forecasting: Ugly Excel spreadsheets with multiple tabs and 2000s style pastel formatting Business unit managers, store managers, operations managers, sales teams, and finance teams who ...

This post is a follow-up two my two recent posts on generating control charts in R, and animating them. One thing that I’ve been wondering about is how to calculate a range chart without using a package like ggQC or qcc. I knew that I could do it using ...

What I will show you In this post, I want to show you a few ways how you can save your datasets in R. Maybe, this seems like a dumb question to you. But after giving quite a few R courses mainly - but not only - for R beginners, ...