I’ve long been hoping for a reason to have to devote time to learning how to produce network plots. In my world, where bar and line charts reign supreme (with heatmaps and waffle charts thrown in occasionally) it is nice to be able to develop...

This blog post is a follow up on my previous post on optimising a Weibull regression model using optimx(). This time I’ll try to find a solution for the discrepancy between the confidence interval estimates of the Weibull hazard function estimated wit...

Another post on the series of useless-useful R functions. This time more on the fun side and only using paste() function for concatenation and sample() function for selection of random items from array. The complete (longer) list of all the…Read more ›

This weekend most of Europe says goodbye to summertime. Visualize the consequences using R.

This weekend most of Europe says goodbye to summertime. Visualize the consequences using R.

In the previous article, we have tried to model the gold price in Turkey per gram. We will continue to do that to find the best fit for our data. When we chose the KNN and Arima model, we saw the traditional Arima model was much better than the KNN, ...

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor. Category Data Management Tags Data Manipulation R Programming tidyverse Tips & Tricks Pivoting data can be a pain point in bioinformatics workflows. Lots of bioinformatics software are tied to the wide format with data spread out among multiple ...

Two hundred thirty-six new packages made it to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. The large number of packages and, in my opinion, the high percentage of high quality work ...

I maintain small package CGPfunctions on Github as well as CRAN. I know a few people use it because occasionally I get feedback (usually accompanied by feature requests :-) ). I am absolutely sure that it’s in no danger of “going viral” but the di...

The Riddler of this week had a quick riddle: if one does want to avoid parallel parking a car over a six spot street, either the first spot is available or two consecutive spots are free. What is the probability this happens with 4 other cars already parked (at random)? While ...

R Tutorials Update Interested in more time series tutorials? Learn more R tips: Time Series Machine Learning (and Feature Engineering) in R, and Time Series in 5-Minutes, Part 6: Modeling Time Series Data. ???? Register for our blog to get new ar...

rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance has been compiled in an online book for more than one year now. We’ve just released its fifth version. To find out what’s new in our dev guide 0.5.0, you can read the changelog, or this blog p...

Since only one man was eliminated this week (for his failure to adequately compliment Clare), this week’s blog post focuses on the suitors’ Instagram accounts. On average, the men have roughly doubled their growth in instagram followers since the show began. Please check out our dashboard (built with shiny) ...