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Intro Just like the question “what’s the difference between machine learning and statistics” has shed a lot of ink (since at least Breiman (2001)), the same question but where statistics is replaced by econometrics has led to a lot of discussion, as well. I like this presentation by Hal Varian ... [Read more...]

An interesting big data thought experiment The other day on Twitter I saw someone referencing a paper or a seminar or something that was reported to examine the following situation: if you have an urn with a million balls in it of two colours (say red... [Read more...]

Week 10 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 10 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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Azure Machine Learning has added support for the R language, it was announced at the Ignite conference in Orlando this week. A new R package azuremlsdk (available to install from Github now, and from CRAN soon), provides the interface to the Azure Machine Learning service. With R functions, you can ... [Read more...]

The tidyverse ecosystem is steadily growing and adapting to the needs of its users. As part of this evolution, existing tools are being replaced by new and better methods. As useful as this flexibility is to the strength of the system, sometimes it can be hard to keep track of ... [Read more...]

The tidyverse ecosystem is steadily growing and adapting to the needs of its users. As part of this evolution, existing tools are being replaced by new and better methods. As useful as this flexibility is to the strength of the system, sometimes it can be hard to keep track of ... [Read more...]

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We are pleased to announce that styler 1.2.0 is now available on CRAN. All the below features were added after styler 1.1.0, except the ones listed under Other changes were added somewhere between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0. Let’s get started: install.packages("styler") library(styler) Alignment detection styler can finally detect aligned code and ... [Read more...]

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Today we are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $894k grant will help us improve infrastructure for R packages and enable us to move towards a science first package ecosystem for the R community. You may have already noticed ... [Read more...]

I obviously haven't been blogging lately, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been thinking about what ought to be my next blog post. Fortunately, I've had the chance to get to know two particularly impressive R packages which are available to the scientific community through CRAN. Together, the two ... [Read more...]

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In this interactive course, learn hypothesis testing in R and build the statistics skills you'll need to test the statistical significance of your analysis. The post New Statistics Course: Hypothesis Testing in R appeared first on Dataquest. [Read more...]

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