Most of us have come across situations where, we do not have enough data for building reliable models due to various reasons such as, it’s expensive to collect data (human studies), limited resources, lack of historical data availability (earth quakes). Even before we begin talking about how to overcome ...

Today I had the pleasure to give a workshop on Explanatory Model Analysis at the eRum 2020 conference. The conference was completely online, so were the workshops.All the materials from my workshop are at http://tiny.cc/eRum2020.The complete three-hour...

FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Express link From Tom Hanrahan, a maze you can solve without getting lost in a field of corn: The number in each box tells you how many spaces up, down, left or right you must move. (No diagonal moves, people.) Starting at the yellow six in the ...

Hello readers, welcome to today’s blog. I am going to implement a win probability added model for twenty 20 cricket. Now this is nothing new a quick google and there are many sources for it. Cricviz is possibly the most famous version which you may have seen on the app. ...

To select only a specific set of interesting data frame columns dplyr offers the select() function to extract columns by names, indices and ranges. You can even rename extracted columns with select(). Learn to use the select() function Select columns...

During the pandemic, many virtual seminar programmes have popped up. One series, “Motors in Quarantine“, has been very successful. It’s organised by my colleagues Anne Straube, Alex Zwetsloot and Huong Vu. Anne wanted to know if attendees of the seminar series were a fair representation of the field. We ...

The tinytest package was accepted on CRAN at 18 june. This release improves the build_install_test() function with two extra arguments that were previously missing, as reported by Patrick Breheny. Meanwhile, usage of the package continues to grow steadily. At time … Continue reading →

This is the second in a series of posts (previous post: Part 1) in which I look at the following paper: Kissler, Tedijanto, Goldstein, Grad, and Lipsitch, Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period, Science, vol. 368, pp. 860-868, 22 May 2020 (released online 14 April 2020).  The paper is also available here, ...

Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at Old Dominion University There are times when it would be really nice to get an email from R. Maybe you ...

Originally posted on the R Hub blog This post was contributed by Peter Li. Thank you, Peter! packageRank is an R package that helps put package download counts into context. It does... The post From R Hub – Counting and Visualizing CRAN Downloads with packageRank (with Caveats!) appeared first on R ...

If there’s a dataset that’s been most used by data scientists / data analysts while they’re learning something or coaching something - it’s either iris (more R users) or titanic (more Python users). iris dataset isn’t most used just because it’s easy accessible but it’...

Have 5-minutes? Then let’s learn time series. In this short articles series, I highlight how you can get up to speed quickly on important aspects of time series analysis. Today we are focusing on a critical visualization technique: Autocorrelation an...

This week’s #TidyTuesday datasets reflect on Juneteenth, the date when the law abolishing slavery in the United States was finally enforced throughout the American South, and specifically Texas. My own education as a white woman in the United States has been gravely lacking in the history of enslaved people, ...