Internet wisdom is divided on whether one-page resumes are more effective at landing you an interview than two-page ones. Most of the advice out there seems much opinion- or anecdotal-based, with very little scientific basis. Well, let’s fix that. Being currently open to work, I thought this would be ...

Continuous Deployment made easy with GitHub Actions and Heroku This article is a short guide on deploying a Shiny app on Heroku. Familiarity with Docker, Shiny and GitHub is presumed. For an introduction to Docker, see Deploying a Shiny Flexdashboard with Docker. This article was also published on https://www....

This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Making multiple ARIMA Time Series models in R used to be difficult. But, with the purrr nest() function and modeltime, fore...

BlueSky Statistics is an easy-to-use menu system that uses the R language to do all its work. My detailed review of BlueSky is available here, and a brief comparison of the various menu systems for R is here. I’ve just … Continue reading → The post BlueSky Statistics Intro and User ...

The aim was to make a quotes generator website which we take with our breakfast. I used SelectorGadget and rvest to scrap quotes from Wikipedia page. Then I used Unsplash API to get a random nature background image. Finally, I use Shiny to combine al...

With the release of pointblank v0.6, workflows for the validation of tabular data have been refined. On top of those improvements, we have a new workflow for describing our tabular data. There’s really so much that’s new in the release that we can only go over the big ...

This is the context. In the convalescent plasma pooled individual patient level meta-analysis we are conducting as part of the COMPILE study, there is great interest in understanding the impact of antibody levels on outcomes. (I’ve described variou...

In this post, we will examine the harmonic properties of songs in my music collection. We will focus on two primary aspects of the music: the mode (e.g. whether the songs are played in major or minor keys), and the musical key itself (e.g. C major, D minor, ...

Number of deaths in consecutive weeks. See the second plot for the whole story.Recently there have been several blog entries showing excessive number of deaths in different countries.Recently I discovered that in the eurostat database (1) one can find ...

The 3rd NHS-R Community Conference wrapped up a week ago last Friday, and was a hugely enjoyable event. There was a pre-conference training week, during which I was able to attend Syliva Canelon’s excellent xaringan workshops. They were fan...

Create Data Association of ‘feature’ and ‘target’ Resample Build Models Rescale Predictions to Predicted Probabilities Appendix Density Plots Lift Plot Comparing Scaling Methods TLDR: In classification problems, under and over sampling1 techniques shift the distribution of predicted probabilities towards the minority class. If your problem requires accurate probabilities you will ...

If you’re only going to read one line of this post let it be this one: v0.6.0 of SwimmeR is now available from CRAN and it’s better now than ever before. But don’t just stop at one line though, grab that update and come along on this ...

In the last post, we were able to identify when a regime change occurs. Today we will focus on speed (well, a trade-off) For the next question, we will still be using the datasets available at https://github.com/matrix-profile-foundation/mpf-datasets so you can try this at home. The original ...