2020

Upcoming workshop: From Excel to R

October 21, 2020 | Mirai Solutions

Discover how to use R to break free from Excel’s limitations at Mirai’s From Excel to R workshop. Excel’s lengthy formulas and complex macros, files that take forever to open and crash as frequently as you try to update them, major mistakes due to a... [Read more...]

eXplainable AI + Shiny = xai2shiny

October 21, 2020 | Adam Rydelek

xai2shiny is a new tool for lightning-quick deployment of machine learning models and their explorations using Shiny.By Anna KozakThe explainability of machine learning models has already proven to be an essential part of building a successful model. T...

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How to Automate PDF Reporting with R

October 20, 2020 | Business Science

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. Let’s learn how to automate PDFs with R. Get the Code: GitHub Link Video Tutorial: YouTube Tutorial (Click im...

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RStudio 1.4 Preview: Multiple Source Columns

October 20, 2020 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release. RStudio v1.4 introduces the capability to configure your workbench with multiple source columns. Multiple source columns give you the ability to vie...

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GPU support in WSL 2 in practice Jupyter notebooks and Rstudio working seamlessly with a GPU using docker containers

October 20, 2020 | Angel Sevilla Camins' Blog

Summary If you are reading this blog, probably you are wondering whether a GPU can be shared by Windows. This is a real problem because in virtual machines hosted on Windows, GPU support doesn’t work properly or it’s really hard to set up. Even docker... [Read more...]

Leading Causes of Mortality by U.S. County

October 20, 2020 | Tyrone Wilkinson

LinkedIn | GitHub | Email | Data Venit Mors Velocitor Why would it be helpful to know the leading causes of mortality of a given population at a granular level and how they have been trending? Well, does it come into play when considering places to live or travel? Would having a large ...

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Bayesian Statistics using R, Python, and Stan

October 20, 2020 | Paul van der Laken

For a year now, this course on Bayesian statistics has been on my to-do list. So without further ado, I decided to share it with you already. Richard McElreath is an evolutionary ecologist who is famous in the stats community for his work on Bayesian statistics. At the Max Planck ...

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NHS-R Book Club

October 20, 2020 | Nujcharee Haswell

Nujcharee Haswell Data Scientist Apprentice, North Yorkshire County Council “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is a […] The post NHS-R Book Club appeared first on NHS-R Community.

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“You Are Here”: Understanding How GPS Works

October 20, 2020 | Learning Machines

Last week, I showed you a method of how to find the fastest path from A to B: Finding the shortest Path with Dijkstra’s Agorithm. To make use of that, we need a method to determine our position at any point in time. For that matter, many devices use ... [Read more...]

Little useless-useful R function – DataFrame Maker

October 20, 2020 | tomaztsql

Series of useless R functions continues. This time writing long code to generate random data.frame.Read more ›

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Why you should use vapply in R

October 19, 2020 | Andrew Treadway

In this post we’ll cover the vapply function in R. vapply is generally lesser known than the more popular sapply, lapply, and apply functions. However, it is very useful when you know what data type you’re expecting to apply a function to as it helps to prevent silent ...

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Using Space Ranger at JHPCE

October 19, 2020 | rstats | LIBD rstats club

By Nick Eagles As part of recent LIBD work with spatial gene expression, I recently was recommended the tool Space Ranger, which provides software pipelines walking Visium spatial RNA-seq samples through the steps we ultimately need to explore gene expression coupled with spatial information. In this blog post, I’ll ... [Read more...]

Linear mixed model (Multilevel model)

October 19, 2020 | Analysis on StatsNotebook - Simple. Powerful. Reproducible.

The tutorial is based on R and StatsNotebook, a graphical interface for R. Data with multilevel (hierarchical) structure are common in many area of research. In our tutorial on moderation analysis, we examine the impact of increasing alcohol tax in Que...

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New International Swimming League Season – New Version(s) of SwimmeR

October 19, 2020 | Welcome on Swimming + Data Science

Welcome back to Swimming + Data Science friends. Last week something exciting happened - two things actually! First, the International Swimming League kicked off its 2020 season in Budapest. Second, and directly related, I released version 0.5.0 of SwimmeR to CRAN with functions to read ISL results from the inaugural 2019 season and from ...

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Capture message, warnings and errors from a R function

October 19, 2020 | R | Bangyou Zheng

During development the web platform PhenoCopter to process images captured by UAV, I need to capture all logs (i.e. message, warning and error) of R scripts for data processing, and then store into the database which are rendered by web interface a... [Read more...]

Understanding COVID19 in Connecticut. It takes a town

October 19, 2020 | Posts on R Lover ! a programmer

Well, it has been way too long since I posted something. As with most of you life during the pandemic has been interesting to say the least. I’ve been working hard (to include trying to find a new job), practicing good hygiene, socially distancing...

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New International Swimming League Season – New Version(s) of SwimmeR

October 19, 2020 | Swimming + Data Science

Welcome back to Swimming + Data Science friends. Last week something exciting happened - two things actually! First, the International Swimming League kicked off its 2020 season in Budapest. Second, and directly related, I released version 0.5.0 of SwimmeR to CRAN with functions to read ISL results from the inaugural 2019 season and from ...

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: how (not) to visualize data

October 19, 2020 | Dr. Shirin Elsinghorst

Below you’ll find the complete code used to create the ggplot2 graphs in my talk The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: how (not) to visualize data at this year’s data2day conference. You can find the German slides here: You can also find a German blog article ...

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Searching medRxiv and bioRxiv Preprint Data

October 19, 2020 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Background & motivation medRxiv, as the preprint repository for papers in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences,1 has become a central source of new studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, more and more researchers have begun to include medRxiv in the list of bibliographic databases they search ...

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Reproduce economic indicators from ‘The Economist’

October 19, 2020 | Thomas Brand

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States -2.9 Q3 +33.1 -4.3 +3.1 -5.3 Oct +1.2 Oct +1.5 +6.9 Oct China +0.1 Q3 +0.3 +1.9 +8.2 +5.4 Nov§ +1.7 Sep +2.9 +4.2 Q3 Japan -5.9 Q3 +21.4 -5.3 +2.3 -10.0 Sep +0.2 Aug -0.1 +3.0 Sep Britain -9.6 Q3 +78.0 -9.8 +5.9 -6.3 Sep +0.9 Oct +0.8 +4.3 ... [Read more...]

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