I did another twitter thread on the aforeblogged MowerPlus database as I explored the tables after a second mow to determine what identified a unique mowing “session” (using John Deere’s terms). This is the thread: As forewarned, today was the second mow with the new @JohnDeere mower. I'll thread ...

It continues to amaze us at the progress that our students are making in applying data science in the real world. Bryan Clark (LinkedIn), Data Scientist with H&M and student in our Business Science University DS4B 201-R course has successfully appl...

Time is the investor's best friend. The longer the investment horizon, the less the investment returns depend on factors such as crashes and current valuation levels. It is known that the chance for losing in the stock market on a 20-year period has historically been about zero. This post attempts ...

UMAP is a non linear dimensionality reduction algorithm in the same family as t-SNE. In the first phase of UMAP a weighted k nearest neighbour graph is computed, in the second a low dimensionality layout of this is then calculated. Then the embedded data points can be visualised in a ...

(TL;DR: Start with two vectors with equal numbers of elements. Multiply them element-wise. Sum the results. This is the dot product.)

I was pretty brutal to Apple earlier this week in a Twitter thread that I tried to craft so it occurred in-line with the WWDC live stream (which might be something you want to remember as/if you read on). I really don’t care about “memojis” and I have ...

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.8.0 provides some new features, speed improvements, and a variety of ...

Ali Oghabian2019-04-25The topics covered in this post are:R and IntEREst versionFiles in the zipAnnotating u12 type introns of HG38ncRNAs with U12-type intronsU12 annotation comparisonReferenceFiles in the zipYou can download the zip file the includes ...

As part of our continuous effort to improve rOpenSci infrastructure, we are rolling out a new service to automatically build and host documentation for all rOpenSci packages. The webpages are generated using the popular pkgdown system with our rOpenSci template, and get automatically published on https://docs.ropensci.org/. Some ...

Following our arXival of ABC-Gibbs, Dennis Prangle pointed out to us a 2016 paper by Athanasios Kousathanas, Christoph Leuenberger, Jonas Helfer, Mathieu Quinodoz, Matthieu Foll, and Daniel Wegmann, Likelihood-Free Inference in High-Dimensional Model, published in Genetics, Vol. 203, 893–904 in June 2016. This paper contains a version of ABC Gibbs where parameters are sequentially ...

Learn to use if-else statements, for loops, and while loops to build complex conditional programs in R, a valuable skill for aspiring data scientists and R programmers alike. The post How to Use If-Else Statements and Loops in R appeared first on Dataquest.

Nina and I have been sending out drafts of our book Practical Data Science with R 2nd Edition for technical review. A few of the reviews came back from reviewers that described themselves with variations of: Senior Business Analyst for COMPANYNAME. I have been involved in presenting graphs of data ...

A user of the {ggalt} package recently posted a question about how to add points to a geom_dumbbell() plot. For now, this is not something you can do with geom_dumbbell() but with a bit of data wrangling you can do this in a pretty straightforward manner with just ...

[R]eady for production – The Data Science Event 2019. In the upcoming week, eoda and RStudio invite the German speaking R-community to the event for the productive use of R.… Der Beitrag Are you [R]eady for production? The Data Science Event 2019 – Register now! erschien zuerst auf Der Datenanalyse Blog von ...