While I'm still supporting caret, the majority of my development effort has gone into the tidyverse modeling packages (called tidymodels). If you've never heard of this, we have just made an excellent learning resources at tidymodels.org. You might consider focusing on the Get Started pages. Another item of note: ...

???? Learn about this feature in a special live webinar and AMA on May 7, 2020 at 1pm EDT with Plotly’s CTO and cofounder, Alex Johnson. Written by: Alex Johnson, Plotly CTO Before we start, I’d like to thank codefour for generously sponsoring this open-source feature and providing excellent feedback throughout ...

Another graph showing the recent peak in daily deaths throughout France as recorded by INSEE and plotted by Baptiste Coulmont from Paris 8 Sociology Department. And further discussed by Arthur Charpentier on Freakonometrics. With a few days off due to reporting, this brings an objective perspective on the impact of the ...

R 4.0.0 was released in source form on Friday, and binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux are available for download now. As the version number bump suggests, this is a major update to R that makes some significant changes. Some of these changes — particularly the first one listed below — are likely ...

This is the second of two articles about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions chosen as Spotlight Winners to present at the closing ceremony. Read on for the technical aspects of our solution, for a more general ...

R is everywhere Learn what R is all about Get an overview of why R is useful Submit your first code exercise Introduction to R The most powerful statistical computing language on the planet. Norman Nie, Founder of SPSS R is a programming languag...

R is everywhere Learn what R is all about Get an overview of why R is useful Submit your first code exercise Introduction to R The most powerful statistical computing language on the planet. Norman Nie, Founder of SPSS R is a programming languag...

I have written couple of blog posts on R packages (here | here ) and this blog post is sort of a preset of all the most needed packages for data science, statistical usage and every-day usage with R. Among…Read more ›

A quick one today. If you work with economic data, you’ll be confronted to NACE code sooner or later. NACE stands for Nomenclature statistique des Activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne. It’s a standard classification of economic activities. It has 4 levels, and you can learn more ...

Two hundred ninety-six new packages made it to CRAN in March. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods celltrackR v0.3.1: Provides a methodology to analyze cells that move in a two- or three-dimensional ...

Background One of the motives for starting the Data Chats interview series was to shed light on the many ways in which data and analytics professionals operate across different fields and cultures. Previously, Avision Ho (Senior Data Scientist at t...

Mixed emotions Wow! Has it been a year? Another major update from The R Foundation (the recent 4.0.0 release in April). I’m always happy to see the continuing progress and the combination of new features and bug fixes, but I also dread the upgrade because it means I have to ...