One hundred and thirteen new packages made it to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Economics, Machine Learning, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods eRTG3D v0.6.2: Provides functions to create realistic random trajectories in a 3-D space between two ...

A couple of months ago, I was contacted about the possibility of creating a simple function in simstudy to generate a large dataset that could include possibly 10’s or 100’s of potential predictors and an outcome. In this function, only a subset of the variables would actually be predictors. The ...

Apple has brought Screen Time to macOS for some time now and that means it has to store this data somewhere. Thankfully, Sarah Edwards has foraged through the macOS filesystem for us and explained where these bits of knowledge are in her post, Knowledge is Power! Using the macOS/iOS ...

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty (Bertrand Russell) You have a pentagon defined by its five vertex. Now, follow these steps: Step 0: take a point inside the pentagon (it can be its center if you want to do it easy). Keep this point in a safe ...

Data today is the fuel driving the modern business world. It therefore stands to reason that the ability to read and speak data should be a fairly mainstream skill. Except it isn’t ­- yet. A 2018 report by Qlik suggests that just 24% of business decision were fully confident in their ...

I hate the way files are run in a camera. While it was cool to learn for this post that DSCN stands for “Digital Still Capture – Nikon,” it means nothing to me! For this post, I will be renaming the files that I took from Worden Ledges into a more “...

New Season of Bojack Horseman – NO SPOILERS! A new season of my favorite show, Bojack Horseman, just dropped on Netflix, and I have absolutely zero time to sit down and watch it. However, in some magical way there was time for me to write this blog post and do this ...

Last week, I came across a data that I thought it is a great opportunity to write about Binomial probability distributions. What is a binomial distribution and why we need to know it? Binomial distributions are formed when we repeat a set of events and each single event in a ...

A two-person game as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: Two players Amaruq and Atiqtalik are in a game with n tokens where Amaruq chooses a number 1

Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States and you need a permit to climb it. These permits are limited. But from time to time, somebody will […]

Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States and you need a permit to climb it. These permits are limited. But from time to time, somebody will return his permit. It will show up on the permit website recreation.cov. I wanted to get one of those ...

MinIO is a high performance, distributed object storage system. It is software-defined, runs on industry standard hardware and is 100% open source under the Apache V2 license[1]. Today, MinIO is deployed globally with over 272.5M+ docker pulls and 18K+ git commits. MinIO is written in “go” language. So, expect it to ...