This past summer, I watched a brilliant lecture series by Richard McElreath on Bayesian statistics. It honestly changed my whole outlook on statistics, so I couldn’t recommend it more (plus, McElreath is an engaging instructor). One of the most compelling cases for using Bayesian statistics is with a collection ...

Learn how to create an icon map in R with ggmap and ggimage!

Data Science beginners often encounter the same question: which programming language should one learn first? The choice usually falls on one of the two major providers, R or Python. With this blog article, we want to help you with the search for the right programming language for you. Der Beitrag ...

Easy data access: The advantages of a unique database connection with ODBC and DBI Every developer has his favorite tools and frameworks to work with when connecting to the database. The number of different front end and back end combinations increases the complexity of the analysis. Any Relational Database Management ...

udpipe is a beautiful R package for Text Analytics and NLP and helps in Topic Extraction. While most Text Analytics resources online are only about English, This post picks up a different lanugage - Tamil and fortuntely, udpipe has got a Tamil Language Model. Loading

library(udpipe)

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Introduction How do you begin a career in analytics and data science? What’s the best way of learning R? Should I still bother with Excel? Arguably, these are some questions that you can gain more insights on by speaking to people than running mode...

A common business oriented data science task is to programatically craft and send custom emails. In this post, I will show how to accomplish this with R on the RStudio Connect platform (a paid product built for the enterprise) using the blastula package.blastula provides a set of functions for ...

Raison d’être At Tychobra, like many consulting businesses, we have multiple projects for multiple clients being worked on by multiple developers. To keep everything tracked to double precision, and because we love the taste of dog food, we built o...

This vignette builds on the making maps chapter of the Geocomputation with R book. Its goal is to demonstrate how to set and modify grids and graticules in the tmap package. Prerequisites The examples below assume the following packages are attached:

library(spData) # example datasets
library(tmap)   # map creation (>=2.3)
library(sf)     # spatial data classes

Grids and graticules The tmap package offers two ...

A digital problem as Le Monde current mathematical puzzle: Noble numbers are such that they only involve different digits and are multiple of all their digits. What is the largest noble number? Hmmmm…. Brute force? Since the maximal number of digits is 10, one may as well try: k=soz=9 for (...

tl; dr Transferring your Excel sheet to a Shiny app can be the easiest way to create an enterprise ready dashboard. In this post, I  present 6 Shiny alternatives for the table-like data that Excel users love. Intro  Excel has its limitations regarding advanced statistics and calculations, quality and version control, ...

Note: When I started writing this blog post, I encountered a bug and filed a bug report that I encourage you to read. The responsiveness of the developer was exemplary. Not only did Zhuo solve the issue in record time, he provided ample code snippets to illustrate the solutions. Hats ...

A key motivating factor for the simstudy package and much of this blog is that simulation can be super helpful in understanding how best to approach an unusual, or least unfamiliar, analytic problem. About six months ago, I described the DREAM Initiative (Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities), a ...