Thanks to generous funding from the R Consortium, Forwards has offered a series of workshops around the world to support the development of coding skills and to increase the participation of women in the R community. In the last year and a half, more than 10 workshops have engaged more than 100 ...

An RSwitch user, lcolladotor filed a most-welcome issue letting me know that the core functionality of the switcher was busted ????. After testing out the 1.5.1 release candidate I had made a “harmless” & “clever” change to reduce some redundancy in the code that handled with switching which resulted in busted symbolic link ...

Introduction In the first part of this series, we looked at how the sparklyr interface communicates with the Spark instance and what this means for performance with regards to arbitrarily defined R functions. We also examined how Apache Arrow can increase the performance of data transfers between the R session ...

Next week is my first installment of live training offered through O’Reilly Media’s online platform. I’m so excited to partner with this outstanding organization to deliver workshops on business analytics. My first two courses will offer a unique perspective on SQL and R. For each, I will ...

Exploring Data Exploring Features Transforming Target Feature Exploring Predictors Visually Checking Correlation Feature Engineering Fitting Model Splitting Data Fitting Model on Training Data Checking Model Performance Summary Inisght Let’s assume that we have been hired by a winery to build a predictive model to check the qulity of their ...

Web Scraping in R Web scraping needs no introduction among Data enthusiasts. It’s one of the most viable and most essential ways of collecting Data when the data itself isn’t available. Knowing web scraping comes very handy when you are in shortage of data or in need of ...

In this post, I will walk you through some examples that show off the major features of the ggforce package. The main goal is to share a few ideas about customizing visualizations that you may find useful in your everyday work. The ggforce package is an extension to ggplot2 developed ...

Nina Zumel had a really great article on how to prepare a nice Keras performance plot using R. I will use this example to show some of the advantages of cdata record transform specifications. The model performance data from Keras is in the following format: # R code library(wrapr) df

Time flies by and we are more people now here at STATWROX. But, did we change our behavior in using emojis or are we still the same? I am revisiting my analysis and will have a look! Der Beitrag Using emojis and .png as icons in your ggplot erschien zuerst ...

As digitalization progresses and data science interfaces continue to grow, new opportunities are constantly emerging to reach the personal analysis goals. Despite the „modernity“ of the industry, there is now a wealth of software for every need: From the design of the analysis infrastructure to the complete, decentralized evaluation through ...