Data science is now a hot area of investment for many organizations. Countless blogs, articles, and analyst reports emphasize that effective data science is critical for competitive advantage, and many business leaders believe that data science is vital for an organization to survive, much less thrive, over the next several ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted all of our lives in a very short period of time. Spring and summer are usually very busy as students prepare to go the field to engage in various data collection efforts. The pandemic has also disrupted these carefully planned activities as travel is ...

Background XGBoost is a machine learning library originally written in C++ and ported to R in the xgboost R package. Over the last several years, XGBoost’s effectiveness in Kaggle competitions catapulted it in popularity. At Tychobra, XGBoost is our go-to machine learning library. François Chollet and JJ Allaire ...

When we decided to make all of DataCamp free for an entire week, we expected more learners would visit our site than we typically see. But nothing could’ve prepared us for the explosive growth in activity—some of our longstanding records are being ...

Tabular data is the most common format used by data scientists. In R, tables are respresented through data frames. They can be inspected by printing them to the console. Understand why data frames are important Interpret console output created by a data frame Create a new data frame using the ...

The first COVID-19 Data Forum, co-sponsored by the Stanford Data Science Institute and the R Consortium, was held May 14, 2020. The forum used Zoom as a way to connect... The post COVID-19 Data Forum – Co-Sponsored with Stanford Data Science Institute – Heavily Attended appeared first on R Consortium.

TL;DRThe xai2cloud package allows for simple deployment of an R model as a cloud service. Any predictive model from the local R console can be converted into a REST service available remotely in the DigitalOcean cloud. GET and POST methods are created ...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools package, for instance, and hope to discuss them here soon. For the present post, though, I will ...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools package, for instance, and hope to discuss them here soon. For the present post, though, I will ...

How I created a custom partial plot function with the help of {edarf}