Hello, I watch a lot of football in the championship and often the commentators on sky sports will say “this is the most unpredictable league in the world”. The thought occurred to me that this is actually quite easy to test. All you need is a model which predicts a ...

I’m proud to announce that my latest research project, reluctant generalized additive modeling (RGAM), is complete (for now)! In this post, I give a brief overview of the method: what it is trying to do and how you can fit … Continue reading →

Introduction Correlation matrix Correlogram Correlation test Code {lares} package All possible correlations Correlation of one variable against all others Reference Introduction Correlation, often computed as part of descriptive statistics, i...

RBloggers|RBloggers-feedburner RAthena 1.7.1 and noctua 1.5.1 package versions have now been released to the CRAN. They both bring along several improvements with the connection to AWS Athena, noticeably the performance speed and several creature comforts. These packages have both been designed to reflect one another,even down to how they connect ...

Introduction Correlation matrix Correlogram Correlation test Code Photo by Pritesh Sudra Introduction Correlation, often computed as part of descriptive statistics, is a statistical tool used to study the relationship between two variables, ...

  TL;DRJust answer 4 questions about best degree for Data Science here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7FGGWS7 No doubt asking the question "What's the best degree for Data Science?" one won't expect unified or even a few opinions (unless everything I know about people practicing data science is all wrong). ...

It seems that the need for MX, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records for modern email setups were just not enough acronyms (and setup tasks) for some folks, resulting in the creation of yet-another-acronym — BIMI, or, Brand Indicators for Message Identification. The goal of BIMI is to “provide a mechanism for ...

By Benaiah Ubah, Claudia Vitolo and Rick Pack Introduction Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an annual 3-month open-source software development (coding) program that provides a platform for mentors and... The post R Community Explorer – Google Summer of Code Projects appeared first on R Consortium.

The tidy data principles are a cornerstone of financial data management and the data modeling workflow. The foundation for tidy data management is the tidyverse, a collection of R packages, that work in harmony, are built for scalability, and are taugh...

At their closing keynote at the 2020 RStudio Conference, Hilary Parker and Roger Peng mentioned that they hatched the idea for their excellent Not So Standard Deviations podcast following their reunion at the 2015 rOpenSci unconf, (“runconf15”). That statement went straight to my heart because it pin-pointed how I had been feeling ...

Introduction Historically there have been several instance of air plane crashes. This study is an attempt to explore the possible causes of such air crashes, and to determine if air travel is a safe option. Objective The objective of this study are ...

This is a brief post on collecting and analysing tweets. I will show how to use the rtweet package to extract Twitter posts about the R community. This ties into last weeks post on rstudio::conf and community values, and is also related to my previous intro post on web ...

The DALEX package version 1.0 CRAN release is scheduled for Feb 20. It brings lots of improvements and changes. Below I will briefly summarise how this package helps to develop better and safer predictive models. To see code snippets scroll to the end....