We have just released two new free video lectures on vectors from a programmer’s point of view. I am experimenting with what ideas do programmers find interesting about vectors, what concepts do they consider safe starting points, and how to condense and present the material. Please check the lectures ...

I am very excited to hear that there are attempts to create a brand new R user group in Glasgow! I had just talked in Post Number One about my guilt at not having been able to attend EdinbR as often as I wished but it should be much easier ...

I am very excited to hear that there are attempts to create a brand new R user group in Glasgow! I had just talked in Post Number One about my guilt at not having been able to attend EdinbR as often as I wished but it should be much easier ...

Background Anyone who has created wordclouds for a presentation before will know that it is an iterative process. Not only do you have to remove “useless” stop words (e.g. the, at, am), you may also need to process word stemming so that words with the same stem do not ...

recorder 0.8.1 is now available on CRAN. recorder is a lightweight toolkit to validate new observations before computing their corresponding predictions with a predictive model. With recorder the validation process consists of two steps: record relevant statistics and meta data of the variables in the original training data for the predictive ...

In the documentation of Haskell module NgxExport.Tool.Aggregate there is a small example of how to establish monitoring of Nginx worker’s load. In a few words, it is possible to set up an internal server that would sit on an arbitrary Nginx worker process and accumulate various data ...

In the documentation of Haskell module NgxExport.Tool.Aggregate there is a small example of how to establish monitoring of Nginx worker’s load. In a few words, it is possible to set up an internal server that would sit on an arbitrary Nginx worker process and accumulate various data ...

I’m clearing out some books. You can buy them! They are all good ones, it’s just that I don’t need … More

Welcome to the second part of R Studio shortcuts and tips! If you have not yet read r studio shortcuts and tips – part one, I strongly recommend to do it before proceeding further. Code Inserting Tricks Operators and sections Let’s start with some shortcuts that are easy and very ...

Quickly and easily explore your data set in R with the Inspectdf function!

Intro On my last few posts I’ve tried answering high level questions such as “What is Causal inference?”, “How is it different than ML?” and “When should I use it?”. In this post we finally get our hands dirty with some Kaggle style Causal Infe...

Intro On my last few posts I’ve tried answering high level questions such as “What is Causal inference?”, “How is it different than ML?” and “When should I use it?”. In this post we finally get our hands dirty with some Kaggle style C...

Very happy to share that my DataCamp course “Survey and Measure Development in R” is now available. Check it out here — the first chapter is free. From the course description: How can we measure something like “brand loyalty?” It’s an obvious measure of interest to marketers, but we can’...