March, 2021 | R-bloggers

Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

March 9, 2021 | R | msperlin

In the 18th of march 2021 I’ll complete exactly ten years since finishing my PhD and taking a professorship position at UFRGS, south of Brazil. In this post I’ll write about what I learned during this period and, hopefully, help other academics tha... [Read more...]

Higher Order Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation

March 9, 2021 | YoungStatS

Summary We propose a higher order targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) that only relies on a sequentially and recursively defined set of data-adaptive fluctuations. Without the need to assume the often too stringent higher order pathwise d...

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Compositional scalar-on-function regression as a tool (not only) for geological data

March 9, 2021 | YoungStatS

Compositional data are characterized by the fact that the relevant information is contained not necessarily in the absolute values but rather in the relative proportions between particular components. As an example, take household expenditures for ...

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Considerations for the pattern-based spatial analysis

March 9, 2021 | Rstats on Jakub Nowosad's website

TLTR: This is a last blog post in a series about motif - an R package aimed for pattern-based spatial analysis. It sums up previous posts, but also underlines potential considerations when working with spatial patterns. Finally, it lists underexplored...

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Cheat Sheets

March 9, 2021 | R Views

In a previous post, I described how I was captivated by the virtual landscape imagined by the RStudio education team while looking for resources on the RStudio website. In this post, I’ll take a look at Cheatsheets another amazing resource hiding in plain sight. Apparently, some time ago when ...

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Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

March 9, 2021 | R | msperlin

In the 18th of march 2021 I’ll complete exactly ten years since finishing my PhD and taking a professorship position at UFRGS, south of Brazil. In this post I’ll write about what I learned during this period and, hopefuly, help other academics that... [Read more...]

Introductory time series forecasting with torch

March 9, 2021 | Sigrid Keydana

This is the first post in a series introducing time-series forecasting with torch. It does assume some prior experience with torch and/or deep learning. But as far as time series are concerned, it starts right from the beginning, using recurrent neural networks (GRU or LSTM) to predict how something ...

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A function to speed up and simplify writing to SQL Server databases in R

March 9, 2021 | Gary Hutson

I had a recent enquiry on our NHS-R community slack channel about which package is best to work with larger datasets, such as 5 million plus records, with high dimensionality. I got to thinking that the DBI and odbc packages would be best for this purpose, as this is still not ...

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Building a Model in R to Predict FPL Points

March 9, 2021 | Part Time Analyst

Fantasy premier league. That yearly ritual of thinking your team you spend hours agonising over whether to select this player or that player. I find you need to watch a lot of football to keep up with it so the challenge is how can I use data to shortcut this. ...

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EARL abstracts – closing soon

March 9, 2021 | Laura Swales

There is still time left for you to submit your abstract for the Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference.... The post EARL abstracts – closing soon appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

Complete the Introduction to Machine Learning Course for Free until March 21

March 9, 2021 | Quantargo Blog

Complete the Introduction to Machine Learning Course for Free until March 21 To all of you who want to get started with machine learning we have a special offer! Until March 21 you can finish all of the new Introduction to Machine Learning course less...

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Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

March 9, 2021 | Christoph

seasonal is an easy-to-use and full-featured R-interface to X-13ARIMA-SEATS, the seasonal adjustment software developed by the United States CensusBureau. The latest CRAN version of seasonal makes it much easier to adjust multiple time series. seasonal depends on the x13binary package to access pre-built binaries of X-13ARIMA-SEATS on ... [Read more...]

Assess Your DATA QUALITY in R

March 8, 2021 | 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. Skimr is my go-to R package for fast data quality assessment, and Skimr is my first step in exploratory data analysis. Befo...

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An introduction to k-gram language models in R

March 8, 2021 | Valerio Gherardi

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor. Category Advanced Modeling Tags Machine Learning Natural Language Processing NLP R Programming Text Mining This post offers a brief introduction to \(k\)-gram language models, using the R package kgrams, which provides an interface for training, evaluating ... [Read more...]

Star Trek ratings on IMDB

March 8, 2021 | Code R

My girlfriend and I are watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). The first season it’s pretty lame, but it gets better further down the line. That piqued my curiosity – is that impression shared by the rest of The Internets? So I decided to d...

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rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review – Community Call Summary

March 8, 2021 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

A week ago we held a Community Call discussing rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review. This call included speakers Noam Ross, Mark Padgham, Anna Krystalli, Alex Hayes, and John Sakaluk. This post provides a ready reference and descri... [Read more...]

Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

March 8, 2021 | Christoph Sax

seasonal is an easy-to-use and full-featured R-interface to X-13ARIMA-SEATS, the seasonal adjustment software developed by the United States Census Bureau. The latest CRAN version of seasonal makes it much easier to adjust multiple time series.

[Read more...]

Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

March 8, 2021 | Christoph Sax

seasonal is an easy-to-use and full-featured R-interface to X-13ARIMA-SEATS, the seasonal adjustment software developed by the United States Census Bureau. The latest CRAN version of seasonal makes it much easier to adjust multiple time series.

[Read more...]

Analyzing Room Temperature Data

March 8, 2021 | Jared

In previous posts I talked about collecting temperature data from different rooms in my house and automating that process using Docker and GitHub Actions. Now it is time to analyze that data to figure out what is happening in the house to make informed decisions about replacing the HVAC units ...

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Preparing a manuscript for publication using bookdown

March 8, 2021 | %>% dreams

My co-authors Ryan, Emily, Jesse, Josh, and I published our book last year, but Data Science in Education Using R is also available online as a bookdown on a website, available to all. {bookdown} is an R package that facilitates writing books ...

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March 2021

Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

Higher Order Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Compositional scalar-on-function regression as a tool (not only) for geological data

Considerations for the pattern-based spatial analysis

Cheat Sheets

Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

Introductory time series forecasting with torch

A function to speed up and simplify writing to SQL Server databases in R

Building a Model in R to Predict FPL Points

EARL abstracts – closing soon

Complete the Introduction to Machine Learning Course for Free until March 21

Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

Assess Your DATA QUALITY in R

An introduction to k-gram language models in R

Star Trek ratings on IMDB

rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review – Community Call Summary

Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

Seasonal Adjustment of Multiple Series

Analyzing Room Temperature Data

Preparing a manuscript for publication using bookdown

March 2021

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