Whether you are building bridges, baseball bats, or medical devices, one of the most basic rules of engineering is that the thing you build must be strong enough to survive its service environment. Although a simple concept in principle, variation in use conditions, material properties, and geometric tolerances all introduce ...

Tim Churches is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Medicine South Western Sydney Clinical School at Liverpool Hospital, and a health data scientist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, also located at Liverpool, Sydney. His background is in general medicine, general practice medicine, occupational health, public health ...

The number of different products and customers in any business area are practically infinite. But how can you find interactions between them like joint purchases and define groups? One solution is the so-called Community Detection. In this blog post, I want to show you the magic behind Community Detection and ...

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor. Category Visualizing Data Tags Data Visualisation ggplot2 R Programming Tips & Tricks As you may all know, a new virus named a coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting a lot of people all over the world. The symptoms are ranging ...

Über Tuesday has come and almost gone (some state results will take a while to coalesce) and I’m relieved to say that {catchpole} did indeed work, with the example code from before producing this on first run: If we tweak the buffer space around the squares, I think the ...

I used to think that making nice table in R is not worth the effort. However, after changing my mind for the billionth time on relatively large tables for a paper and do not wanting to reformat them again from scratch, I gave a try to the formattable package, and ...

In my last post, I walked through an intuition-building visualization I created to describe mixed-effects models for a nonspecialist audience. For that presentation, I also created an analogous visualization to introduce Bayes’ Theorem, so here I will walk through that figure.. As in the earlier post, let’s start by ...

Correspondence Analysis – CA – is an exploratory multivariate method for exploring and visualizing contingency tables, i.e. tables on which a chi-squared test can be performed. CA is particularly useful in text mining. The function Factoshiny of the package Factoshiny allows you to perform CA in an easy way. You can ...

I’m pleased to announce the release of tidyquant version 1.0.0 that includes Excel in R (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, Sum-Ifs, and 100+ Excel Functions). I’ve also integrated the FREE Tiingo API via riingo. There are a ton of new features that are cove...

Riddler express Riddler classic Appendix Time to center Transform grid, rotate first Transform city, pretty This post contains solutions to FiveThirtyEight’s two riddles released 2020-02-14, Riddler Express and Riddler Classic. I created a toy ...

Riddler express Riddler classic Appendix Time to center Transform grid, rotate first Transform city, pretty This post contains solutions to FiveThirtyEight’s two riddles released 2020-02-14, Riddler Express and Riddler Classic. I created a toy ...

This is Part 3 of a series on aligning 2D NMR, as implemented in the package ChemoSpec2D. Part 1 Part2 Let’s get to work. The function to carry out alignment is hats_alignSpectra2D. The arguments maxF1 and maxF2 define the space that will be considered as the two spectra ...

For this Community Call, we’re trying something different. We’ll start with a short talk by Julia Silge, then spend most of the time on Q & A with four panelists - Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain - moderated by Julia. Our panelists bring a wide ...

Services include R consulting, development, and training; contributes to multiple R open source projects including golem, framework for building robust Shiny apps SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2020 – The R... The post R Consortium Welcomes New Member ThinkR, R Language and Data Science Engineering Company appeared first on R Consortium.

The Objective Organizing books by genre falls far short of telling a perspective reader if that book is of any interest to them.  Any one book can fall into dozens of categories while two books in the same category share almost nothing in common.  This makes identifying a good read ...

A few weeks ago, my tweet on the R patchwork package went nerd viral. I analyze the tweet performance and possible impact on the patchwork package downloads. I’ll arrange the resulting graphs with patchwork! As a bonus, I’ll show y’all how I added an image to the ...

Registration is now open for a two-day training workshop on NIMBLE, June 3-4, 2020 in Berkeley, California. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). The workshop will cover: the basic concepts and workflows ...