September 2020

National Weekly Death Rates

September 26, 2020 | R on kieranhealy.org

Following up on yesterday’s post on within-state variation in deaths in the United States, here’s a quick look at all-cause mortality rates across twenty countries, courtesy of the excellent work of the demographers who maintain the Human M... [Read more...]

Kmeans Clustering of Penguins

September 25, 2020 | r on Joel Soroos

In today's blog, I explore k-means clustering capabilities in R including algorithms, visualizations and methodologies to identify the optimal number of clusters ("k"). K-means clustering is an unsupervised machine learning tool to group s...
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Le Monde puzzle [#1155]

September 25, 2020 | xi'an

The weekly puzzle from Le Monde is another Sudoku challenge: Anahera and Wiremu play a game for T rounds. They successively pick a digit between 1 and 3, never repeating the previous one, and sum these digits. The last to play wins if the sum is a multiple of 3. Who is the ...
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Spotify Playlists

September 25, 2020 | Gregory Weber

          LinkedIn.    GitHub     Rock Hall on Spotify App hello h hello About the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame The Rock & Roll of Fame is a museum that celebrates the history of Rock & Roll, including all of its roots and branches.  The mission of the Rock Hall […] The post Rock & Roll Hall ...
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Machine Learning With R: Linear Regression

September 25, 2020 | Dario Radečić

Machine learning foundations with R. And a bunch of other things. I decided to start an entire series on machine learning with R. No, that doesn’t mean I’m quitting Python (God forbid), but I’ve been exploring R recently and it isn’t that bad as I init... [Read more...]

Drivers of Gold Returns in R

September 24, 2020 | aric.w.light

As the ultimate store of value, gold has appreciated substantially over the past 18 months; rallying from ~$1,300 in March 2019 to $1,954 on September… The post Drivers of Gold Returns in R appeared first on Light Finance.
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RStudio Named Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Notebook-Based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning, Q3 2020

September 24, 2020 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

As we’ve discussed in recent blog posts on Serious Data Science, Interoperability, and R and Python, RStudio, PBC is dedicated to investing in free and open-source software for data science and helping people understand and improve the world through data. We use our commercial software to fund this investment ...
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Writing conundrums

September 24, 2020 | R on OSM

We’re taking a break from our portfolio series and million sample simulations to return to a subject that we haven’t discussed of late despite its featured spot in this blog’s name—options. In this post, we’ll look at the buy-write (BXM) and put-write (PUT) indices on ...
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Writing conundrums

September 24, 2020 | R on OSM

We’re taking a break from our portfolio series and million sample simulations to return to a subject that we haven’t discussed of late despite its featured spot in this blog’s name—options. In this post, we’ll look at the buy-write (BXM) and put-write (PUT) indices on ...
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Writing conundrums

September 24, 2020 | R on OSM

We’re taking a break from our portfolio series and million sample simulations to return to a subject that we haven’t discussed of late despite its featured spot in this blog’s name—options. In this post, we’ll look at the buy-write (BXM) and put-write (PUT) indices on ...
[Read more...]

US Excess Mortality

September 24, 2020 | R on kieranhealy.org

The CDC recently released some new data on mortality counts by state and cause of death in the U.S., allowing us to get a look at excess mortality patterns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve folded the data into the covdata package. As an illustr... [Read more...]
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