June 2020

sans sérif & sans chevron

June 16, 2020 | xi'an

{\sf df=function(x)2*pi*x-4*(x__1)*acos(1/(x+(1-x)*(x symbols in the sans-sérif “\sf” font… Which is a surprise, given the ubiquity of the symbols in R and my LaTeXing books over the years. Must have […] [Read more...]

R tips and tricks – utilities

June 16, 2020 | Eran Raviv

As the title reads, few more R-related tips and tricks. I hope you have not seen those before. Some utilities Methods are functions which are specifically written for particular class. In the post Show yourself (look “under the hood” of a function in R) we saw how to get the ...
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Market Making and The Win/Loss Ratio

June 16, 2020 | Rory Winston

The article https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/VirtuOverview.pdf is a neat little illustration of a simple asymptotic toy distribution given an initial probability of a win or loss per-trade. It is used as an example to illustrate the basic methodology behind the working market-maker business – develop a ... [Read more...]

David Robinson’s R Programming Screencasts

June 16, 2020 | Paul van der Laken

David Robinson (aka drob) is one of the best known R programmers. Since a couple of years David has been sharing his knowledge through streaming screencasts of him programming. It’s basically part of R’s #tidytuesday movement. Alex Cookson decided to do us all a favor and annotate all ...
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Thomas Ramge: Postdigital (Book Excerpt)

June 16, 2020 | Learning Machines

We are honoured to present to you an exclusive excerpt from digital thought leader and bestselling author Thomas Ramge’s new book Postdigital. Using AI to Fight Coronavirus, Foster Wealth and Fuel Democracy: In concrete terms, what would a postdigital world look like in which people — both individually and as ... [Read more...]

Introduction to dplyr

June 16, 2020 | Quantargo Blog

Learn what dplyr does Get an overview of Select, Filter and Sort Learn what Joins, Aggregations and Pipelines are What is dplyr There’s the joke that 80 percent of data science is cleaning the data and 20 percent is complaining about cleaning the data. Anthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO of Kaggle ...
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Rcpp 1.0.5 in two+ weeks: Please help test

June 15, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

With the current four-month release cycle, the next Rcpp release is due in July following the 1.0.4 release in March. Just prior to the 1.0.4 release I had asked this: It would be particularly beneficial if those with “unsual” build dependencies tested it as we would increase overall coverage beyond what I ... [Read more...]

Logging in R: Why, When, and How

June 15, 2020 | Abraham Mathew

Anyone who is writing R code should get familiar with logging. While it may not be useful for writing exploratory scripts or doing basic coding projects, logging can be critical when doing development work as it helps track what your code is doing. In this post, I will provide some ... [Read more...]

Understanding Lasso and Ridge Regression

June 15, 2020 | R | Science Loft

Backdrop Prepare toy data Simple linear modeling Ridge regression Lasso regression Problem of co-linearity Backdrop I recently started using machine learning algorithms (namely lasso and ridge regression) to identify the genes that correlate with different clinical outcomes in cancer. Coming purely from a biology background, I needed to brush up ...
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Using the geofacet package to spatially arrange plots

June 15, 2020 | Michael

The {geofacet} package allows to « arrange a sequence of plots of data for different geographical entities into a grid that strives to preserve some of the original geographical orientation of the entities ». Like the previous post, it’s interesting if you view each entity as a unit and don’t ... [Read more...]
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