Problem Recently, I was making a Shiny Dashboard that I wanted to look nice but I wasn’t satisfied with any of available themes and designs. The easiest way to customize a dashboard is to change the color of the skin but you are limited to the pr...

Sooner or later (usually sooner) a data analyst runs into a situation where one needs to make multiple visualizations on the same subject, which can be slow and time-consuming. By writing simple functions, it is possible to automate most of the work, thus greatly simplifying and speeding up repetitive plotting ...

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) A little late, but I decided to have a go at Tidy Tuesday with the recent Claremont Run dataset, looking at Chris Cl...

Daniel Hanson is a full-time lecturer in the Computational Finance & Risk Management program within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His appointment followed over 25 years of experience in private sector quantitative development in finance and data science. One of the most time-consuming, tedious, and thankless tasks ...

Introduction The tidycat package includes the tidy_categorical() function to expand broom::tidy() outputs for categorical parameter estimates. Documentation For full documentation, see the package vignette: The tidycat package: expand broom::tidy() output for categorical parameter estimates Hello World The tidy() function in the broom package takes the messy output ...

This talk was presented virtually at eRum 2020 by Appsilon engineer Krystian Igras. Here is a direct link to the video. Why Should We Explain Black Box ML Models? A vast majority of state-of-the-art ML algorithms are black boxes, meaning it is difficult to understand their inner workings. The more that ...

In late 2016, we took a gamble: we made DataCamp completely free for classroom use in secondary and higher education. We called this academic program DataCamp for the Classroom. All qualified educators can receive six months of free access to DataCamp...

This useR!2020 session and video was organized by Laura Acion, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Paola Corrales, and Paloma Rojas Saunero. Leonardo Collado Torres coordinated the blog post submission. On June 19th, 2020,... The post Latin American Communities and Organizations: useR!2020 Video appeared first on R Consortium.

In this post, fourth in a series (previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I’ll finally talk about some substantive conclusions of 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 […]

Photo by Mark Cruz on Unsplash The TIOBE Company just published the July edition of its TIOBE Programming Community Index of programming language popularity. R users will be pleased to see that R is now ranked as the 8th most popular programming language as shown in the screenshot below, having ...

Motivation For the May 26 2020 R4DS Tidy Tuesday data set, I explored UpSet charts, which simplify visualizing overlap of large numbers of sets. Laura Ellis has a useful explanation of how Venn and Euler diagrams become unwieldy for intersections of greater than two sets. I analyzed which ingredients, as well ...

We have been working hard behind the scenes on the upcoming release of our new git package named gert, a joint effort from rOpenSci and the Tidyverse team. One of the main features of gert is the out-of-the-box authentication mechanism, which is provided via the new credentials package. Among other ...