There are some important benefits to applying early. Here are just a few reasons why you might want to reconsider procrastinating on your application.

These days, most people are familiar with the concept of A/B testing. This is one of the most common ways to make advertising decisions, particularly in online marketing. In an A/B test, the customer base is divided into two or more groups, each of which is served a ...

Spatial networks in R with sf and tidygraph Lucas van der Meer, Robin Lovelace & Lorena Abad September 26, 2019 Introduction Street networks, shipping routes, telecommunication lines, river bassins. All examples of spatial networks: organized sys...

Two hundred and twenty-seven new packages made it to CRAN in August. Quite a few were devoted to medical or genomic applications, and this is reflected in my “Top 40” selections, listed below in nine categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine and Pharma, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. ...

We are using multiple imputation more frequently to “fill in” missing data in clinical datasets. Multiple datasets are created, models run, and results pooled so conclusions can be drawn. We’ve put some improvements into Finalfit on GitHub to make it easier to use with the mice package. These will ...

We hope you enjoyed EARL London as much as we did! We’re just putting the finishing touches on our highlights recap, but until then you can view the presentations we have available here, and all the photos here. We’re so proud of the incredible speakers at this year’...

What does a modern analytics platform need to offer companies real added value? Contradiction and connection at the same time: Information content vs. simple presentation A meaningful result or the answer to important questions is not everything. Making data and results comprehensible is just as important for companies as target-oriented ...

This blog post looks at how we can improve predictive accuracy by combining forecasts from different models. Der Beitrag Time series forecasting with random forest erschien zuerst auf STATWORX.

My ambitious goal is to write a machine learning algorithm that predicts authors. But let’s start with something simpler. An important part in a Data Science workflow is data preparation. Clean it, reformat it and make it usable for further analysis. Figure 1: Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash I ...

Forget about Python being the prime data analysis platform: there are plenty of alternatives and R has been one of them. With CRAN, rOpenSci, Bioconductor (doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80) the platform has three efforts where you can publish your R work. ...

Forget about Python being the prime data analysis platform: there are plenty of alternatives and R has been one of them. With CRAN, rOpenSci, Bioconductor (doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80) the platform has three efforts where you can publish your R work. I think of them as scholarly journals: the ...

R is one of the leading programming languages for data analysis. In November 2019 we bring our popular data science trainings to Frankfurt! Introduction to R | 12 – 13 November 2019 The course is intended as an introduction to R and its basic functionalities and facilitates the introduction to R with practical tips and […]

TL;DR Learn how to use the session argument as a global list for passing parameters between the modules in advanced Shiny apps to simplify the objects’ flow in code. Session can help you organize the app content and simplify the objects flow logic. It is faster than managing all ...

In keeping with pending presentations for the Secure Iowa Conference and [ISC2 Security Congress](https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/ISC2/agenda.asp?pfp=days&day=10/28/2019&theday=Monday&h=Monday October 28&BCFO=P|G), I’m continuin...