Last week I published my first screencast showing how to use the tidymodels framework for machine learning and modeling in R. Today, I’m using this week’s #TidyTuesday dataset on hotel bookings to show how to use one of the tidymodels packages recipes with some simple models! Here is ...

Thoughts initial Data sets Modeling political ideology in the 116th House A final thought References Thoughts initial A brief (and copycat) go at modeling roll call voting behavior in the US House of Representatives using (1) constituency demographics, (2) house member party affiliation, and (3) house member characteristics. This post is based directly ...

by Jorge Cimentada Introduction Whenever a new paper is released using some type of scraped data, most of my peers in the social science community get baffled at how researchers can do this. In fact, many social scientists can’t even think of research questions that can be addressed with ...

Problem What do I do when %__% doesn’t work? Context I love the %__%  pipe. Originally from magrittr, it’s now characteristic of tidy code. Using %__% has revolutionized how I write code in R (pssst! coming soon: an interactive pipe tutorial!). But sometimes the basic pipe falls short. table() is one ...

Most data scientists favor Python as a programming language these days. However, there’s also still a large group of data scientists coming from a statistics, econometrics, or social science and therefore favoring R, the programming language they learned in university. Now there’s a new kid on the block: ...

Not having a time series at the desired frequency is a common problem for researchers and analysts. For example, instead of quarterly sales, they only have annual sales. Instead of a daily stock market index, they only have a weekly index. While there is no way to fully make up ...

Zillow is a FREE TOOL with an API that allows Data Scientists to connect to a massive repository of Home Prices and Features. In this lab, we use Shiny, Crosstalk, and Zillow API to create an ML-powered Zillow Home Price Explanation tool. Shiny ...

A number challenge as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: When the three consecutive numbers 110, 111 and 112, they all are multiples of the sum of their digits. Are there 4 consecutive numbers with three digits like this? A contrario, does there exist 17 consecutive numbers with three digits such that they cannot be […]

Description Use MODIS image to calculate TVDI index Make multiple Raster images at the same time Can be used to calculate large image files UI interface calculates TVDI index UI interface exports Golay Savitzky filter images The functions in the TVDI package Golay_Raster Golay_GUI (may be failed if ...

First broadcast in 1988, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a television show whose nominal story involves a guy being trapped in space by a couple of mad scientist types…which is actually just an excuse to have a few guys make fun of really, really bad movies. This raises a few unusual ...