June, 2019 | R-bloggers

Le Monde puzzle [#1104]

June 17, 2019 | xi'an

A palindromic Le Monde mathematical puzzle: In a monetary system where all palindromic amounts between 1 and 10⁸ have a coin, find the numbers less than 10³ that cannot be paid with less than three coins. Find if 20,191,104 can be paid with two coins. Similarly, find if 11,042,019 can be paid with two or […]

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Digital Water Utility Competencies: R for Water Professionals

June 17, 2019 | Peter Prevos

The digital water utility is a fashionable catchphrase in the water industry. Managing reliable water services requires not only a sufficient volume of water but also significant amounts of data. Water professionals continuously measure the flow and quality of the water and how customers perceive their service. Water professionals analyse ...

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On my way to Manizales (Colombia)

June 16, 2019 | arthur charpentier

Next week, I will be in Manizales, Colombia, for the Third International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance. I will be giving a lecture on Wednesday with Jed Fress and Emilianos Valdez. I will give my course on Algorithms for Predictive Modeling on Thursday morning (after Jed and Emil’...

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Meteorite Falls and Finds in the UK

June 16, 2019 | » R

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) The Tidy Tuesday dataset for this week, compiling meteorite strikes across the world, grabbed my interest so I decid...

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Forecasting tools in development

June 16, 2019 | - r

As I’ve been writing up a progress report for my NIGMS R35 MIRA award, I’ve been reminded at how much of the work that we’ve been doing is focused on forecasting infrastructure. A common theme in the Reich Lab is making operational forecasts of i... [Read more...]

modelDown is now on CRAN!

June 16, 2019 | smarterpoland

The modelDown package turns classification or regression models into HTML static websites. With one command you can convert one or more models into a website with visual and tabular model summaries. Summaries like model performance, feature importance, single feature response profiles and basic model audits. The modelDown uses DALEX explainers. ... [Read more...]

‘Simulating genetic data with R: an example with deleterious variants (and a pun)’

June 16, 2019 | mrtnj

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Edinburgh R users group EdinbR on the RAGE paper. Since this is an R meetup, the talk concentrated on the mechanics of genetic data simulation and with the paper as a case study. I showed off some of what Chris ...

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Introducing the {ethercalc} package

June 15, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it’s also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub out the appropriate URL prefix). I’m creating a package-specific Docker image (there are a couple out there but ...

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Comrades Marathon (2019) Start Delay

June 14, 2019 | R | datawookie

How long does it take to cross the start line at the Comrades Marathon? If you’re lucky enough to be starting in one of the batches which is close to the front then this might be a matter of seconds to a couple of minutes. But if you’re ...

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Comrades Marathon (2019) Start Delay

June 14, 2019 | R on datawookie

How long does it take to cross the start line at the Comrades Marathon? If you’re lucky enough to be starting in one of the batches which is close to the front then this might be a matter of seconds to a couple of minutes. But if you’re ...

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Comrades Marathon: Start Delay

June 14, 2019 | R on datawookie

How long does it take to cross the start line at the Comrades Marathon? If you’re lucky enough to be starting in one of the batches which is close to the front then this might be a matter of seconds to a couple of minutes. But if you’re ...

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Stabilising transformations: how do I present my results?

June 14, 2019 | R on The broken bridge between biologists and statisticians

ANOVA is routinely used in applied biology for data analyses, although, in some instances, the basic assumptions of normality and homoscedasticity of residuals do not hold. In those instances, most biologists would be inclined to adopt some sort of ...

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Exploring Categorical Data With Inspectdf

June 14, 2019 | Alastair Rushworth

Exploring categorical data with inspectdf

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Stabilising transformations: how do I present my results?

June 14, 2019 | R on The broken bridge between biologists and statisticians

ANOVA is routinely used in applied biology for data analyses, although, in some instances, the basic assumptions of normality and homoscedasticity of residuals do not hold. In those instances, most biologists would be inclined to adopt some sort of stabilising transformations (logarithm, square root, arcsin square root…), prior to ANOVA. ...

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Fun with R and the Noops

June 14, 2019 | David Smith

Earlier this week, Github introduced Noops, a collection of simple black-box machines with API endpoints, with the goal of challenging developers of all skill levels to solve problems with them. Five "Noops" machines have been released so far along with challenges suitable for beginner programmers, with 15 further machines (and some ...

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EARL London keynote announcement: Helen Hunter, Sainsbury’s

June 14, 2019 | Mango Solutions

We are delighted to announce that Helen Hunter, Chief Data Officer at Sainsbury’s will deliver the opening keynote address at this year’s London EARL conference. As Chief Data Officer at Sainsbury’s plc, Helen’s remit is to maximise the value of the Group’s data asset: democratising ... [Read more...]

Periodogram with R

June 13, 2019 | Chris Carbone

Periodogram with R The power spectral density (PSD) is a function that describes the distribution of power over the frequency components composing our data set. If we knew the process that generated the data, we could just calculate the PSD; we would not have to estimate it. Unfortunately, in practice ...

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Useful callbacks for DT (in Shiny)

June 13, 2019 | Stéphane Laurent

Edit cells on pressing Tab and arrow keys Select rows on click and drag Getting the selected rows Edit columns... [Read more...]

Fixing your mistakes: sentiment analysis edition

June 13, 2019 | Rstats on Julia Silge

Today tidytext 0.2.1 is available on CRAN! This new release of tidytext has a collection of nice new features. Bug squashing! ???? Improvements to error messages and documentation ???? Switching from broom to generics for lighter dependencies Addition... [Read more...]

#rstats adventures in the land of @rstudio shiny (apps)

June 13, 2019 | lortie

PreambleColleagues and I had some sweet telemetry data, we did some simple models (& some relatively more complex ones too), we drew maps, and we wrote a paper. However, I thought it would be great to also provide stakeholders with the capacity to engage with the models, data, and maps. I ... [Read more...]

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June 2019

Le Monde puzzle [#1104]

Digital Water Utility Competencies: R for Water Professionals

On my way to Manizales (Colombia)

Meteorite Falls and Finds in the UK

Forecasting tools in development

modelDown is now on CRAN!

‘Simulating genetic data with R: an example with deleterious variants (and a pun)’

Introducing the {ethercalc} package

Comrades Marathon (2019) Start Delay

Comrades Marathon (2019) Start Delay

Comrades Marathon: Start Delay

Stabilising transformations: how do I present my results?

Exploring Categorical Data With Inspectdf

Stabilising transformations: how do I present my results?

Fun with R and the Noops

EARL London keynote announcement: Helen Hunter, Sainsbury’s

Periodogram with R

Useful callbacks for DT (in Shiny)

Fixing your mistakes: sentiment analysis edition

#rstats adventures in the land of @rstudio shiny (apps)

June 2019

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