2019

The Colour of Everything

November 12, 2019 | Data Imaginist

I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big release comprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of new functions and improvements. Read on to find out what this is all about. The case for farver The first ...

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Automating update of a fiscal database for the Euro Area

November 12, 2019 | Thomas Brand

Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series that go as far as the 1980’s. We use two sources to build the database: the historical database developed in Paredes ...

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Automating update of a fiscal database for the Euro Area

November 12, 2019 | Thomas Brand

Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series that go as far as the 1980’s. We use two sources to build the database: the historical database developed in Paredes ...

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When Cross-Validation is More Powerful than Regularization

November 12, 2019 | Nina Zumel

Regularization is a way of avoiding overfit by restricting the magnitude of model coefficients (or in deep learning, node weights). A simple example of regularization is the use of ridge or lasso regression to fit linear models in the presence of collinear variables or (quasi-)separation. The intuition is that ...

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Logistic Regression in R: A Classification Technique to Predict Credit Card Default

November 12, 2019 | Rahim Rasool

Logistic Regression is one of the most popular classification techniques. In this sneak peek from Data Science Dojo's bootcamp, you'll learn about this popular algorithm and go through a real-world problem to practice.

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AzureR updates: AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph, AzureContainers

November 12, 2019 | Hong Ooi

Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week's AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live on CRAN. AzureStor 3.0.0 There are substantial enhancements to multiple-file transfers (up and down). You can supply a vector of pathnames to ... [Read more...]

AzureR updates: AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph, AzureContainers

November 12, 2019 | Hong Ooi

Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week's AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live on CRAN. AzureStor 3.0.0 There are substantial enhancements to multiple-file transfers (up and down). You can supply a vector of pathnames to ... [Read more...]

Azure AI and Machine Learning talk series

November 12, 2019 | David Smith

At last week's Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, our team delivered a series of 6 talks about AI and machine learning applications with Azure. The videos from each talk are linked below, and you can watch every talk from the conference online (no registration necessary). Each of our talks also comes ...

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My AP Statistics Class First R Programming Assignment Using RStudio

November 12, 2019 | Kevin

My AP Stats class has started their first R programming assignment this week. I gave them the code for them to type in and play with. This will give them some experience with RStudio and basic function commands. I have a total of six assignments for them to complete over ... [Read more...]

Data Scientist or Data Engineer – What’s the difference?

November 12, 2019 | [email protected]

When it was floated that I should write this article, I approached it with trepidation. There is no better way... The post Data Scientist or Data Engineer – What’s the difference? appeared first on Mango Solutions.

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Data Science – A New Hope for Good

November 12, 2019 | [email protected]

Good triumphing over evil in the end is the stuff of every good fairy tale or Hollywood storyline, but in... The post Data Science – A New Hope for Good appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

RcppAnnoy 0.0.14

November 12, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

A new minor release of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN, following the previous 0.0.13 release in September. RcppAnnoy is the Rcpp-based R integration of the nifty Annoy library by Erik Bernhardsson. Annoy is a small and lightweight C++ template header libr... [Read more...]

dplyr and Oracle database with odbc on windows

November 12, 2019 | Guillaume Pressiat

RStudio makes Oracle accessibility from R easier via odbc and connections Pane1. Personally, I find it’s not so easy. As it finally works for me, I will detail some snippets here. After tens of try it seems good to share some tricks2. This blog post is also a notepad ...

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dplyr and Oracle database with odbc on windows

November 12, 2019 | Guillaume Pressiat

RStudio makes Oracle accessibility from R easier via odbc and connections Pane1. Personally, I find it’s not so easy. As it finally works for me, I will detail some snippets here. After tens of try it seems good to share some tricks2. This blog post is also a notepad ...

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How to Become a Mango

November 12, 2019 | [email protected]

At Mango, we talk a lot about going on a ‘data-driven journey’ with your business. We’re passionate about data and getting the best... The post How to Become a Mango appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

Teach R to see by Borrowing a Brain

November 12, 2019 | Learning Machines

It has been an old dream to teach a computer to see, i.e. to hold something in front of a camera and let the computer tell you what it sees. For decades it has been exactly that: a dream – because we as human beings are able to see, we ... [Read more...]

An API for @racently

November 11, 2019 | R | datawookie

@racently is a side project that I have been nursing along for a couple of years. It addresses a problem that I have as a runner: my race results are distributed across a variety of web sites. This makes it difficult to create a single view on my runni...

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An API for @racently

November 11, 2019 | R | datawookie

@racently is a side project that I have been nursing along for a couple of years. It addresses a problem that I have as a runner: my race results are distributed across a variety of web sites. This makes it difficult to create a single view on my running performance (...

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Trying the ckanr Package

November 11, 2019 | R on Alan Yeung

How resources are grouped in CKAN Initialising ckanr and exploring groups of resources Connect to CKAN with dplyr and download from one resource Downloading all resources from a dataset In previous blog posts (Hacking dbplyr for CKAN, Getting Open Data into R from CKAN) I have been exploring how to ...

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Trying the ckanr Package

November 11, 2019 | R on Alan Yeung

How resources are grouped in CKAN Initialising ckanr and exploring groups of resources Connect to CKAN with dplyr and download from one resource Downloading all resources from a dataset In previous blog posts (Hacking dbplyr for CKAN, Getting Open Data into R from CKAN) I have been exploring how to ...

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