In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019, we will have two exciting talks about Word2Vec Text Mining & Parallelization in R! You can RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Munster-R-Users-Group/events/262236134/ Thorbe...

This week we return to Australian Rules Football, the R package fitzRoy and some statistics to ask – why can’t Geelong win after a bye? (with apologies to long-time readers who used to come for the science) Code and a report for this blog post are available at Github. First, ...

This puzzle is in Jersey and features an image, which, judging by the colours and rough shape, is obviously a scrambled version of a map of Jersey. The text confirms that a map has been “shredded”, and your task is to unshred it. I’m intrigued to know how they ...

This post will introduce using the keyring package to hide a password. Short background The keyring package is a library designed to let you access your operating system’s credential store. In essence, it lets you store and retrieve passwords in your operating system, which allows you to avoid having ...

This guide is for you, if: You are a data scientist and want to quickly publish a training or scoring function to your peers with a plumber API. Your IT demands, that connections should be encrypted and password protected. You are familiar with docker containers. You are lazy and do ...

Tips and tricks to creating easy to follow technical tutorials.

Quantitative assessment of spatial patterns has been a keen interest of generations of spatial scientists and practitioners using spatial data. This post describes Information Theory-based metrics allowing for numerical description of spatial patterns. Each example is accompanied by an R code allowing for reproducing these results and encouraging to try ...

Two hundred twenty-two new packages made it to CRAN in May, and it was more of an effort than usual to select the “Top 40”. Nevertheless, here they are in nine categories, Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities and Visualization. Computational Methods dde v1.0.0: Implements a Dormand-Prince ...

A few weeks ago, I was at the annual meeting of the NIH Collaboratory, which is an innovative collection of collaboratory cores, demonstration projects, and NIH Institutes and Centers that is developing new models for implementing and supporting large-scale health services research. A study I am involved with - Primary ...

Wow! I was listening a recent episode of the “Storytelling with data” podcast by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. It was an interview with Alberto Cairo who came up recommending an awesome tool for data visualization: iNZight! Interestingly iNZight is entirely based on R code and in its latest releases it speaks ...

Machine learning models grow more powerful every week, but the earliest models and the most recent state-of-the-art models share the exact same dependency: data quality. The maxim “garbage in – garbage out” coined decades ago, continues to apply today. Recent examples of data verification shortcomings abound, including JP Morgan/Chase’s 2013 ...

Over 20% of Amazon’s North American retail revenue can be attributed to customers who first tried to buy the product at a local store but found it out-of-stock, according to IHL group (a global research and advisory firm specializing in technologies for retail and hospitality. In other words, many companies ...

In this post I’m going to explain how to use the package roadHotspots. This is just a development version located in github and I must say that I have no further intentions of continuing to work on this. If someone find this useful and would like to continue where ...