April 2020

Using Python to Cheat at Scrabble

April 22, 2020 | Ari Lamstein

My New Year’s Resolution was to learn Python. After taking a few online courses, I became comfortable enough with the language to tackle a small side project. Side projects are great for learning a language because they let you “own” a project from start to finish as well as ... [Read more...]

What Panel Data Is Really All About

April 22, 2020 | R on Robert Kubinec

We’ve all been in that seminar where the author puts up a slide containing regression coefficients, and buried in the bottom line of the table we can see little Ys and Ns indicating the kind of panel data model employed. Quite often, these brief descriptions of models are taken ... [Read more...]

S is for summarise

April 22, 2020 | Unknown

Today, we'll finally talk about summarise! It's very similar to mutate, but instead of adding or altering a variable in a dataset, it aggregates your data, creating a new tibble with the columns containing your requested summary data. The number of rows will be equal to the number of groups ...
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Favorite links

April 21, 2020 | r on Joel Soroos

Learning R “R for Data Science” — seminal Tidyverse book by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund “Learning R Step by Step” - hard copy book by Richard Cotton Statistics with R — online Duke courses via Coursera R Programmi... [Read more...]

Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R – Part I

April 21, 2020 | R | Julian Quandt

Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R - Part I: Theoretical introduction to simulation Back to Power Finally, an actual power simulation. Summary Footnotes Click HERE to download the .Rmd file This blog is also available on R-Bloggers Power Analysis by Data Simulation in R - Part I: Theoretical introduction ...
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The performance of small value stocks in bear markets

April 21, 2020 | Data-based investor

If you have ever seen comparisons of investment returns with and without reinvested dividends, you know that the difference gets huge as the investment horizon increases. Wouldn't it be great you could achieve a similar increase in returns by altering your investment style? Small cap value stocks have historically achieved ...
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Recreating a Shiny App with Flask

April 21, 2020 | Jamie Owen

So RStudio Connect has embraced Python and now runs Flask applications! At Jumping Rivers we make a lot of use of R, shiny, and Python for creating visual tools for our clients. Shiny has a lot of nice features, in particular it is very fast for prototyping web applications. Over ...
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R is for read_

April 21, 2020 | Unknown

The tidyverse is full of functions for reading data, beginning with "read_". The read_csv I've used to access my reads2019 data is one example, falling under the read_delim functions. read_tsv allows you to quickly read in tab-delimited files. And you ...
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Easy ggplot2 Theme customization with {ggeasy}

April 21, 2020 | AbdulMajedRaja RS

In this post, We’ll learn about {ggeasy} an R package by Jonathan Carroll. The goal of {ggeasy} is to help R programmers make ggplot2 theme customizations with simple-easy English functions. (much easier than playing with theme()) We use dataset generated by {fakir} for this tutorial. Youtube: https://youtu.be/...
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COVID-19: Analyze Mobility Trends with R

April 21, 2020 | Learning Machines

The global lockdown has slowed down mobility considerably. This can be seen in the data produced by our ubiquitous mobile phones. Apple is kind enough to make those anonymized and aggregated data available to the public. If you want to learn how to get a handle on those data and ... [Read more...]

Make your Amazon purchases with R!

April 20, 2020 | Andrew Treadway

Background Anyone who’s bought groceries online recently has seen the huge increase in demand due to the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantines. In this post, you’ll learn how to buy groceries on Amazon using R! To do that, we’ll be using the RSelenium package. In case you’re ...
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sparklyr 1.2: Foreach, Spark 3.0 and Databricks Connect

April 20, 2020 | Yitao Li

Behold the glory that is sparklyr 1.2! In this release, the following new hotnesses have emerged into spotlight: A registerDoSpark method to create a foreach parallel backend powered by Spark that enables hundreds of existing R packages to run in Spark. Support for Databricks Connect, allowing sparklyr to connect to remote ...
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inSilecoMisc 0.4.0 (part 2/2)

April 20, 2020 | R-bloggers on inSileco

In the first part of this post I introduced several functions available in the package inSilecoMisc. In this post, I keep on introducing features of the package you might find useful! If you did not read the first part of this post and are interested in reproducing the examples below, ...
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Launch of New Course Platform

April 20, 2020 | Quantargo Blog

Launch of New Course Platform After months of hard work we are really excited to launch our brand-new course platform to learn and apply data science. Together with the new platform we also developed the first new course Introduction to R which is ava...
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Launch of New Course Platform

April 20, 2020 | Quantargo Blog

Launch of New Course Platform After months of hard work we are really excited to launch our brand-new course platform to learn and apply data science. Together with the new platform we also developed the first new course Introduction to R which is ava...
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The Case for tidymodels

April 20, 2020 | R Views

If you are a data scientist with a built-out set of modeling tools that you know well, and which are almost always adequate for getting your work done, it is probably difficult for you to imagine what would induce you to give them up. Changing out what works is a ...
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