R-4.1.0 is released! Rejoice! A new R release (v 4.1.0) is due on 18th May 2021. Typically most major R releases don’t contain that many new features, but this release does contain some interesting and important changes. This post summarises some of the notable changes introduced. More detail on the changes ...

R Consortium’s R User Group and Small Conference Support Program (RUGS) provides grants to help R groups around the world organize, share information and support each other. The wealth of... The post Brazil’s R Community is Vibrant and Active appeared first on R Consortium.

Like many others, I’ve never felt that the solution to the Monty Hall problem was intuitive, despite the fact that explanations of the correct solution are everywhere. I am not alone. Famously, columnist Marilyn vos Savant got droves of mail from people trying to school her after she had ...

The wealth of contributed R packages can supercharge Shiny app development. This also means that you have to manage these dependencies. Learn about dependency management when working with R and Docker.

A question from X validated on sampling from an unknown density f when given both a sample from the density f restricted to a (known) interval A , f¹ say, and a sample from f restricted to the complement of A, f² say. Or at least on producing an estimate of ...

Sentiment analysis in R, In this article, we will discuss sentiment analysis using R. We will make use of the syuzhet text package to... The post Sentiment analysis in R appeared first on finnstats.

During COVID I’ve started watching some older “classic” movies that I hadn’t seen before but felt for whatever reason I should have seen as a movie fan. Last week, I had watched The Third Man after listening to a podcast about Spy Movies. After watching it I was ...

A group of people were asked to what degree they agree or disagree with a statement at two time points. Agreement

As a data educator, I’ve helped plenty of self-styled math- and technophobes find out that data and analytics is for them, and it’s fun. These learners are often pretty surprised by how approachable and humorous many analytics professionals are. I mean, not all of us are out of ...

The house I live in has been built around 1939 and is accompanied by a water well that is about 6 m deep. This was dug out by hand, 0.5 m a day, added scaffolding, added concrete and so on for a few weeks. I think, but see the below figure where on ...

Animated graph gif, an animated graph can effectively draw the audience’s focus and lead their eyes to specific points on the graph. In most... The post Animated Graph GIF with gganimate & ggplot appeared first on finnstats.

I have been busy learning Docker, as it was one of those things I have been putting off for a while. But, I am so glad that I did. Essentially, I have gone through all the pain so you don’t have to. Building the ML Model and creating API ...