2020

Installing and switching to MKL on Fedora

October 7, 2020 | Iñaki Úcar

In our last post, we presented the FlexiBLAS library, coming to Fedora 33, and the accompanying flexiblas R package, which enables live switching of the BLAS backend among the various open source options readily available in the Fedora repositories. In this post, we demonstrate how to install, register with FlexiBLAS, and ... [Read more...]

Upcoming Workshops Series Nov/Dec 2020

October 7, 2020 | Mirai Solutions

Save the dates! Check out our upcoming workshops on some of our favorite topics: R, R-Shiny, DevOps and Agility! Who is able to manage data has a huge advantage for the next decade.Data Scientists’ skills help teams and organizations overcome the ch...
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How to Automate Excel with R

October 6, 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 Excel with R, using openxlsx and tidyquant. Get the Code: GitHub Link Video Tutorial: YouTu...
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Building a career changer resume with R {vitae} package

October 6, 2020 | R on Redwall Analytics

# Libraries
packages <- 
  c("vitae",
    "tibble",
    "spelling"
    )

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 This will be a post about building a resume (curriculum vitae) with the R {vitae} package, by a professional who somehow managed to spend 25 years without one. I am also making one of the more unusual career transitions, moving from investment research sales to look for interesting challenges ... [Read more...]

Open States data & the New Mexico State Senate

October 6, 2020 | Jason Timm

Intro NM State Senate Democrats Open-States Data DW-NOMINATE procedure Loss of the center Summary Intro So, a bit of a dust-up in the State Senate primaries in New Mexico over the summer. Progressives took aim at five Democratic members of a conservative coalition that has controlled the chamber since 2009. This ...
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Excess Deaths by Cause

October 6, 2020 | R on kieranhealy.org

As I was saying the other day, calculating excess deaths can be a tricky business, especially if your focus is on understanding counterfactuals like how many people died of some cause who would not have died due to some other competing risk over the period of interest. Moreover, even setting ... [Read more...]

Build a Trump vs Biden Prediction Model With R From Scratch

October 6, 2020 | Matt C

Let’s predict the 2020 presidential election! ___ Get the full code on my GitHub page Follow me on Twitter for model updates ___ Creating a simple prediction model for the 2020 general election between Trump and Biden is actually fairly simple. All we need is to estimate each candidate’s state-by-state average polling ...
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How to simplify your code by using data flows

October 6, 2020 | cloudcell

How can one effectively develop and manage code in large complex data analysis projects? In the past I routinely developed conventions for naming my R scripts so that those scripts have prefixes to determine the sequence to run the scripts. I used this convention several years until I came across ...
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3.84 or: How to Detect BS (Fast)

October 6, 2020 | Learning Machines

In From Coin Tosses to p-Hacking: Make Statistics Significant Again! I explained the general principles behind statistical testing, here I will give you a simple method that you could use for quick calculations to check whether something fishy is going on (i.e. a fast statistical BS detector), so read ... [Read more...]

Covid 19 – How long can the pandemic last in India?

October 5, 2020 | akhila

Six plus months had elapsed since the World Health Organization declared Covid -19 as a pandemic. The daily confirmed cases are still rising, but interestingly google trend shows a lose of interest in searches related to Covid-19 recently. Maybe the initial panic has come down to a greater extent. But ...
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