September, 2020 | R-bloggers

A few tips for beginners on how to engage with the open source community

September 4, 2020 | Max Gordon

I have been writing code in multiple languages since 1994 and for almost a decade now I have been active within the open source community, primarily in R but I’ve also published some JavaSript/TypeScript packages. Publishing something that other people … Continue reading →

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3 Fun Shiny Apps for Your Long Labor Day Weekend

September 3, 2020 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

Photo by Vincent Keiman on Unsplash Many of us in the United States have a long Labor Day weekend coming up, which, contrary to its name, we usually celebrate by not doing labor. That fact leaves us facing a conundrum on the Friday before the weekend: ...

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Deploying flexdashboard on Github Pages

September 3, 2020 | Rami Krispin

One of Github’s coolest features is Github Pages, which enables you to create and deploy websites under github.com domain for free. The most common usage of Github Pages is the deployment of project documentation. The R community is widely using it ...

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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Florida (3)

September 3, 2020 | Welcome on Swimming + Data Science

Welcome to round two of the State-Off. Today we have Texas (2) taking on Florida (3) for the right to compete in the State-Off championships! Don’t forget to update your version of SwimmeR to 0.4.1, because we’ll be using some newly released functions. We’ll also take a look at how ...

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High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Florida (3)

September 3, 2020 | Swimming + Data Science

Welcome to round two of the State-Off. Today we have Texas (2) taking on Florida (3) for the right to compete in the State-Off championships! Don’t forget to update your version of SwimmeR to 0.4.1, because we’ll be using some newly released functions. We’ll also take a look at how ...

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Correcting for confounded variables with GLMs

September 3, 2020 | Bluecology blog

Correcting for confounded variables with GLMs General (and generalized) linear models can be useful for analyzing field data, where sampling is often distributed unevenly across different environmental gradients or treatment groups. They help us corre... [Read more...]

Deploying flexdashboard on Github Pages

September 3, 2020 | Rami Krispin

One of Github’s coolest features is Github Pages, which enables you to create and deploy websites under github.com domain for free. The most common usage of Github Pages is the deployment of project documentation. The R community is widely using it ...

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Using dplyr::filter when the condition is a string

September 3, 2020 | kjytay

This took me a while to figure out and so I thought I would post this as future reference. Let’s say I have the mtcars data and I want to filter for just the rows with cyl == 6. I … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Numerical Partial Derivative Estimation – the {NNS} package

September 3, 2020 | Fred Viole

NNS (v0.5.5) now on CRAN has an updated partial derivative routine dy.d_() . This function estimates true average partial derivatives, as well as ceteris paribus conditions for points of interest. Example below on the syntax for estimating first derivatives of the function y = x_1^2 * x_2^2 , for the points x_1 = 0.5 and … ... [Read more...]

Interview questions about Stats and Probabilities

September 3, 2020 | George Pipis

For Data Science positions, during the interview process, is common to ask questions about Statistics and Probabilities. We will provide ... Read moreInterview questions about Stats and Probabilities [Read more...]

Avoid apply() function in large datasets

September 3, 2020 | George Pipis

When we are dealing with large datasets and there is a need to calculate some values like the row/column min/max/rank/mean ... Read moreAvoid apply() function in large datasets

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R treasures: modifyList()

September 2, 2020 | petermeissner

Sometimes, more precisely quite often, the standard libraries hold treasures that we are not aware of. Maybe they have obscure names, have been reinvented and shadowed by the newest cutting edge convenience package or one simply does not expect those t... [Read more...]

State of R packages in your library

September 2, 2020 | Posts on R-hub blog

Ever wondered where packages in general and their code in particular go when you run something like install.packages()? This post is for you! Where do installed packages live? Packages are installed at the path you give as lib argument to install.packages() (or to any remotes::install_ function, that ... [Read more...]

Partial dependence plots for tidymodels-based xgboost

September 2, 2020 | A Blog on Data Analytics

Problem! ML algorithms, although their proclaimed effectiveness on predictive accuracy might be suspect, are often the first tool that a data scientist resorts to when tackling a prediction problem. Such an attitude is not the best in my opinion, and ... [Read more...]

Data Visualization in R with ggplot2: A Beginner Tutorial

September 2, 2020 | Christian Pascual

A famous general is thought to have said, “A good sketch is better than a long speech.” That advice may have come from the battlefield, but it's applicable in lots of other areas — including data science. "Sketching" out our data by visualizing it using ggplot2 in R is more impactful ...

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Most popular on Netflix. Daily Tops for last 60 days

September 2, 2020 | Andrew Sheveliev

Everyday, around 9 pm, I get fresh portion of the Netflix Top movies / TV shows. I’ve been doing this for more than two months and decided to show the first results answering following questions: How many movies / TV shows make the Top? What movie was the longest #1 on Netflix? What ...

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Time Series in 5-Minutes, Part 5: Anomaly Detection

September 1, 2020 | Business Science

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 analyzing anomalies in time series data. Updates This art...

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JS updates position of TOC for Rmarkdown file in blogdown

September 1, 2020 | R | Bangyou Zheng

The TOC is rendered underneath when using blogdown 0.20 to write Rmarkdown file. However, the current version of hugo academic theme is rendered TOC at the right hand side and always keep on the screen which wo...

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How to Clean Data: {janitor} Package

September 1, 2020 | Exploring Data

Exploring-Data is a place where I share easily digestible content aimed at making the wrangling and exploration of data more efficient (+fun). Sign up Here to join the many other subscribers who also nerd out on new tips and tricks ???? And if you enjoy the post be sure to share ...

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Train and analyze many models for #TidyTuesday crop yields

September 1, 2020 | rstats | Julia Silge

Lately I’ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast explores how to fluently apply tidy data principles to the task of buil...

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September 2020

A few tips for beginners on how to engage with the open source community

3 Fun Shiny Apps for Your Long Labor Day Weekend

Deploying flexdashboard on Github Pages

High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Florida (3)

High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Texas (2) vs. Florida (3)

Correcting for confounded variables with GLMs

Deploying flexdashboard on Github Pages

Using dplyr::filter when the condition is a string

Numerical Partial Derivative Estimation – the {NNS} package

Interview questions about Stats and Probabilities

Avoid apply() function in large datasets

R treasures: modifyList()

State of R packages in your library

Partial dependence plots for tidymodels-based xgboost

Data Visualization in R with ggplot2: A Beginner Tutorial

Most popular on Netflix. Daily Tops for last 60 days

Time Series in 5-Minutes, Part 5: Anomaly Detection

JS updates position of TOC for Rmarkdown file in blogdown

How to Clean Data: {janitor} Package

Train and analyze many models for #TidyTuesday crop yields

September 2020

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