It's the new year. Moving into 2020, I'd like to introduce you to the BRAND NEW Shiny Production with AWS Book. This book details the enterprise-grade process for deploying, hosting, and maintaining Shiny web applications using AWS, Docker, and Git. It...

Introduction If you are anything like me, then you probably enjoy the contribution graphs that GitHub posts to both your own and others GitHub profile. You can see mine here. Since it is the beginning of a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a look back ...

The Internet Research Agency (IRA), funded by friends of Russian Intelligence, used social media to try to influence the US 2016 election. They did so in an elaborate and systematic fashion. While the number of purchased ads and money spent on Facebook...

The Internet Research Agency (IRA), funded by friends of Russian Intelligence, used social media to try to influence the US 2016 election. They did so in an elaborate and systematic fashion. While the number of purchased ads and money spent on Facebook was small there were significant resources devoted to this ...

Here is an R function that produces a Metropolis-Hastings sample for the univariate log-target f when the later is defined outside as another function. And when using a Gaussian random walk with scale one as proposal. (Inspired from a X validated question.) m1,T), c(y*{f({z

Moneyball. That horrific word coined by the book written by Michael Lewis and later hammered further into the public consciousness with the film starring Brad Pitt. Now anything in sport using stats is termed Moneyball when the truth couldn’t be further from that. In this blog I am going ...