July 2019

Quantitative Analysis of Political Text

July 21, 2019 | R on Methods Bites

How can we infer actors’ positions, substantive topics, or sentiments from (political) texts? This Methods Bites Tutorial by Julian Bernauer summarizes Denise Traber’s workshop in the MZES Social Science Data Lab in Spring 2018. Using exemplary sets of political documents (election manifestos and coalition agreements), it showcases tools of QTA ...
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Quantitative Analysis of Political Text

July 21, 2019 | R on Methods Bites

How can we infer actors’ positions, substantive topics, or sentiments from (political) texts? This Methods Bites Tutorial by Julian Bernauer summarizes Denise Traber’s workshop in the MZES Social Science Data Lab in Spring 2018. Using exemplary sets of political documents (election manifestos and coalition agreements), it showcases tools of QTA ...
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Improve GRNN by Weighting

July 21, 2019 | statcompute

In the post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/yet-another-r-package-for-general-regression-neural-network), several advantages of General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) have been discussed. However, as pointed out by Specht, a major weakness of GRNN is the high computational cost required for a GRNN to generate predicted values based on a new input matrix due ... [Read more...]

Reversi in R – Part 1: Bare Bones

July 21, 2019 | Jack Davis

In this post, I showcase a bare-bones point-and-click implementation of the classic board Reversi (also called Othello*) in the R programming language. R is typically used for more serious, statistical endeavors, but it works reasonably well for more playful projects. Building a classic game like this is an excellent high-school ...
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R Books Discount!

July 21, 2019 | John Mount

We, the community of Manning R and data science authors, have talked Manning into offering a catalog-wide 40% discount on all books. Please take a look at some great deals on some great technical books here: http://mng.bz/adRj !
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Ode to the joy of R data packages

July 21, 2019 | Ben Hicks

I have been meaning to get into writing my first R package for some time and was fortunate enough to be guided through the process at a Tidy Tools workshop run by Hadley Wickham (which I thoroughly recommend if anyone gets the chance). This got me (somewhat overly) excited about ... [Read more...]

RPushbullet 0.3.2

July 21, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

A new release 0.3.2 of the RPushbullet package is now on CRAN. RPushbullet is interfacing the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more. It lets you easily send alerts like the one to the left to your browser, phone... [Read more...]

Big News: Porting vtreat to Python

July 20, 2019 | John Mount

We at Win-Vector LLC have some big news. We are finally porting a streamlined version of our R vtreat variable preparation package to Python. vtreat is a great system for preparing messy data for suprevised machine learning. The new implementation is based on Pandas, and we are experimenting with pushing ... [Read more...]

GEDCOM Reader for the R Language: Analysing Family History

July 20, 2019 | Peter Prevos

Understanding who you are is strongly related to understanding your family history. Discovering ancestors is now a popular hobby, as many archives are available on the internet. The GEDCOM format provides a standardised way to store information about ancestors. This article shows how to develop a GEDCOM reader using the ...
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1st Ashes Test — My Team

July 20, 2019 | Part Time Analyst

Hello welcome to today’s blog looking at something a bit different. The first ashes test starts on 1st August and England will imminently name their squad. In this piece I look at what the team for the first game might look like. First things first this is the team ... [Read more...]

GEDCOM Reader for the R Language: Analysing Family History

July 20, 2019 | Peter Prevos

Understanding who you are is strongly related to understanding your family history. Discovering ancestors is now a popular hobby, as many archives are available on the internet. The GEDCOM format provides a standardised way to store information about ancestors. This article shows how to develop a GEDCOM reader using the ...
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Impressions from useR! 2019

July 20, 2019 | Mirai Solutions

This year, the greater R community gathering useR! took place in sunny Toulouse in July, bringing together over 1000 practitioners from both academia and industry. The event spanned over five days, including: a tidyverse day one full day of workshops 6 keynotes and a few sponsor talks contributed talks and lightning talks ...
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Adding Syntax Highlight

July 19, 2019 | R on notast

Syntax highlighting Previously, I posted entries without any syntax highlighting as I was satisfied using basic blogdown and Hugo functions until a Disqus member commented in the previous post to use syntax highlighting. Thus, I tasked myself to learn more about syntax highlighting and to implement them in future posts. ... [Read more...]

Germination data and time-to-event methods: comparing germination curves

July 19, 2019 | R on The broken bridge between biologists and statisticians

Very often, seed scientists need to compare the germination behaviour of different seed populations, e.g., different plant species, or one single plant species submitted to different temperatures, light conditions, priming treatments and so on. How should such a comparison be performed? Let’s take a practical approach and start ...
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