January 2020

ABS time series as tsibbles

January 23, 2020 | R on Rob J Hyndman

library(tidyverse)
library(tsibble)
library(readabs)
library(raustats)
Australian data analysts will know how frustrating it is to work with time series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. They are stored as multiple ugly Excel files (each containing multiple sheets) with inconsistent formatting, embedded comments, meta data stored along with the actual data, dates stored in ... [Read more...]

How to create REST APIs with R Plumber

January 23, 2020 | Stephan Emmer

In this blog post, Stephan explains how to translate a simple R script, which transforms tables from wide to long format into a REST API with the R package Plumber and how to run it locally or with Docker. Der Beitrag How to create REST APIs with R Plumber erschien ...
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Generate synthetic data using R

January 22, 2020 | Sidharth Macherla

If you are building data science applications and need some data to demonstrate the prototype to a potential client, you will most likely need synthetic data. In this article, we discuss the steps to generating synthetic data using the R package ‘conjurer’.  Steps to build synthetic data 1. Installation Install conjurer ...
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Using R to solve old solitaire

January 22, 2020 | Assorted things

There is an old solitaire I started to play when I was in high school, when classes became too boring. I don’t know if it has a name or if I invited it ex nihilo. These are the rules: It begins with an empty 10x10 matrix Write a 1 where ...
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Why we wrote wrapr to/unpack

January 22, 2020 | John Mount

One reason we are developing the wrapr to/unpack methods is the following: we wanted to spruce up the R vtreat interface a bit. We had recently back-ported a Python sklearn Pipeline step style interface from the Python vtreat to R (announcement here). But that doesn’t mean we are ... [Read more...]

rstudio::conf 2020 –> conference preview

January 22, 2020 | Jordan

Two weeks ago I flew from New York to Warsaw, Poland to begin a new role at Appsilon Data Science. On Saturday, I’ll be flying right back in the other direction to attend rstudio::conf::2020. This is convenient because my bags aren’t even unpacked yet, and also exciting ...
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Descriptive statistics in R

January 21, 2020 | R on Stats and R

Introduction Data Minimum and maximum Range Mean Median First and third quartile Other quantiles Interquartile range Standard deviation and variance Summary Coefficient of variation Mode Correlation Contingency table Mosaic plot Barplot Histogram...
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