The latest version of the {salesforcer} package (v0.2.2) is now available on CRAN and is ready to help you have better access to data in your Salesforce Org. Along with a host of bug fixes this release has three big features: Experimental Functions for the Reports and Dashboards REST API (...

This week, I was pleased to become an official RStudio Certified Instructor after completing Greg Wilson’s training program, based on his excellent book Teaching Tech Together. Part of the certification process involved teaching a 10 minute les...

This post is a supplementary material for an assignment. The assignment is part of the Augmented Machine Learning unit for a Specialised Diploma in Data Science for Business. The aim of this project is to classify if patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) became better after seeing a doctor or ...

Today I’ve updated my Shiny App I wrote about a few days ago. I’m using now Flexdashboard to embed a shiny app into an Rmarkdown-File. Using Flexdashboard caused a little trouble when using observeEvent(). But currently the apps works, but throws a warning regarding observeEvent() in respect to ...

All-time Pythonista tries out R - comparisons with Python included. The post I’ve Tried R for the First Time - How Bad Was It? appeared first on Better Data Science.

This presentation was part of a joint virtual webinar with Appsilon and RStudio on July 28, 2020 entitled “Enabling Remote Data Science Teams.” Find a direct link to the presentation here.  In this video, Appsilon Senior Data Scientist Olga Mierzwa-Sulima explains best practices for data science teams – whether your team is lucky ...

Explaining models with triplot, part 1tl;dr Explaining black box models built on correlated features may prove difficult and provide misleading results. R package triplot, part of the DrWhy.AI project, is aiming at facilitating the process of explainin...

If you’ve ever visited this blog at wordpress.com, you might have noticed a header image that looks like this: Ever wonder how it was generated? The image depicts 100 simulations of an asymmetric random walk. In this post, I’ll go … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick quiz: which of the following statements are true: Henry Ford invented the automobile. Bob Marley recorded and sang the song, Don’t Worry; Be Happy. Medieval Europeans believed the earth was flat. All of these statements are...

Here we have it, the last meet of the State-Off semi-final round, where California (1) takes on the Cinderella story that is Pennsylvania (5) for a trip to the finals. 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 ...

# Libraries
packages <- 
  c("data.table",
    "DBI",
    "reticulate",
    "keyring",
    "RAthena"
    )

if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) {
  install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages())))  
}

invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE))

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = NA,
  fig.width = 12,
  fig.height = 8,
  out.width = '100%'
)

Introduction In A Walk Though of Accessing Financial Statements with XBRL in R - Part 1, we showed how to use R to extract Apple financial statement data from the SEC Edgar website. This would be a cumbersome process to scale across sectors, but works well for a single company. ...

Here we have it, the last meet of the State-Off semi-final round, where California (1) takes on the Cinderella story that is Pennsylvania (5) for a trip to the finals. 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 ...

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. In this article we walk through modeling time series data using the modeltime pa...