October 2019

New Introduction to rquery

October 27, 2019 | John Mount

Introduction rquery is a data wrangling system designed to express complex data manipulation as a series of simple data transforms. This is in the spirit of R’s base::transform(), or dplyr’s dplyr::mutate() and uses a pipe in the style popularized in R with magrittr. The operators themselves ... [Read more...]

littler 0.3.9: More nice new features

October 27, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

The tenth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the thirteen-ish year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R as it predates Rscript. It allows for piping as ... [Read more...]

GRNN vs. GAM

October 26, 2019 | statcompute

In practice, GRNN is very similar to GAM (Generalized Additive Models) in the sense that they both shared the flexibility of approximating non-linear functions. In the example below, both GRNN and GAM were applied to the Kyphosis data that has been widely experimented in examples of GAM and revealed very ...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine

October 26, 2019 | Pachá

About the book Jodie Burchell and yours truly have published a book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine, on graphing in Python using plotnine, a comprehensive port of ggplot2. This book will help you easily build beautiful plots. If you’d like to c... [Read more...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine

October 26, 2019 | Pachá

About the book Jodie Burchell and yours truly have published a book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine, on graphing in Python using plotnine, a comprehensive port of ggplot2. This book will help you easily build beautiful plots. If you’d like to ... [Read more...]

RAthena 1.3.0 has arrived

October 25, 2019 | Dyfan Jones Brain Dump HQ

RBloggers|RBloggers-feedburner Recap: RAthena is a R package that interfaces into Amazon Athena. However, it doesn’t use the standard ODBC and JDBC drivers like AWR.Athena and metis. Instead RAthena utilises Python’s SDK (software development kit) into Amazon, Boto3. It does this by using the reticulate package that ... [Read more...]

Pivoting tidily

October 25, 2019 | Gavin L. Simpson

One of the fun bits of my job is that I have actual time dedicated to helping colleagues and grad students with statistical or computational problems. Recently I’ve been helping one of our Lab Instructors with some data that from their Plant Physiology Lab course. Whilst I was writing ...
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dang 0.0.11: Small improvements

October 24, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of what may be my most minor package, dang, is now on CRAN. The dang package regroups a few functions of mine that had no other home as for example lsos() from a StackOverflow question from 2009 (!!) is one, this overbought/oversold pri... [Read more...]

The politics of New Mexico: a brief historical-visual account

October 23, 2019 | Jason Timm

New Mexico demographics via tidycensus 2016 Presidential Election Presidential elections in New Mexico historically New Mexico as bellwether? Congressional delegation historically New Mexico State Government Summary In this post, we piece together a brief political history of New Mexico using a host of data sources, including Wikipedia, the US Census, the ...
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Decision Making Support Systems #3: Differences between IA and AI

October 23, 2019 | Joe Cha

The Differences between Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence In previous posts, we looked at the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the definition of Intelligence Augmentation (IA). So, what are the differences between the two? Intelligence Augmentation has always been concerned with aiding human decision making and keeping humans-in-the-loop, whereas ...
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Horizontal scaling of data science applications in the cloud

October 23, 2019 | eoda GmbH

Prediction models, machine learning algorithms and scripts for data storage: The modern data science application not only shows more and more complexity, but also puts the existing infrastructure to the test by temporary resource peaks. In this article, we will show how tools such as the RStudio Job Launcher in ...
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