lumberjack is a package that allows you to track (log) changes in data while an R script is running. This allows you to detect exactly which code had what effect on your data. The only thing you have to do … Continue reading →

Deal of the Day May 10: Half off Practical Data Science with R, Second Edition. Use code dotd051020au at https://bit.ly/2xLRPCk

This is an update of a benchmark of popular graph / network packages post. This study aims to serve as a starting point for anyone interested in applied graph or network analysis. The featured network packages offer a convenient and standardised API for modelling data as graphs and extracting network related ...

eponge is a small package, which facilitates selective object removal. It was released on CRAN at 23th March 2020. Initially, the package was named sponge, but during first submission trial I found out, that currently there exists the SPONGE package, ...

A recent update to the {tidycovid19} package brings data on testing, alternative case data, some regional data and proper data documentation. Using all this, you can use the package to explore the associations of (the lifting of) governmental measures, citizen behavior and the Covid-19 spread. Installation The Package is hosted ...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express ( Link to the original article.) From Patrick Mayor comes a question about something we’re doing these days to keep ourselves and others safe: social distancing. You’re walking along the middle of a wide sidewalk when you see someone walking toward you from the other ...

After seeing this blog post from Matt Dray, and this github repo from Devin Pleurer, I knew what my next blog post was going to be. My last post was my first foray into gganimate, and this will be my first look at the ggsoccer package. Let’s get started. ...

The new version of modelStudio has recently been released on CRAN.modelStudio is an R package that automates the exploration of ML models and allows for interactive examination. It works in a model agnostic fashion, therefore is compatible with most of...

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Maya Angelou “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic ...

This week I learned about another neat trick with tidyverse functions: the argument .drop from the group_by function. To showcase this functionality I made up a simple example with this dataset consisting of nuclear accidents data. original_data % mdy() %__% year(), In_Europe = if_else(Region %in% c("EE", "WE"), ...

Representing words in a numerical format has been a challenging and important first step in building any kind of Machine Learning (ML) system for processing natural language, be it for modelling social media sentiment, classifying emails, recognizing names inside documents, or translating sentences into other languages. Machine Learning models can ...

tinytest is a relatively new, light-weight (no-dependency) but full-featured unit testing framework for R. It is currently used by 60+ packages, including the famous Rcpp package. The latest version of tinytest was accepted by CRAN on 5 May 2020. This … Continue reading →