June 2021

Think of `&&` as a stricter `&`

June 30, 2021 | Higher Order Functions

In programming languages, we find logical operators for and and or. In fact, Python uses the actual words and and or for these operators. # Python via the reticulate package x = True y = False x and y #__ False x or y #__ True In Javascript, we ... [Read more...]

Depth Quantile Functions

June 30, 2021 | YoungStatS

Figure 1: Depth quantile functions for the wine data (d=13), class 2 vs class 3. Blue curves correspond to between class comparisons, red/pink correspond to within class comparisons. A common technique in modern statistics is the so-called kernel ...
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What to Expect When You Are Expecting the Delta Covid-19 Variant

June 30, 2021 | Ian

SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) has been the defining driver of the market since its emergence. Understanding the progression of the disease through the world has been the secret sauce of alpha generation. Correctly parsing the early infectivity and morality data allowed some to avoid the COVID crash and a solid reading into ... [Read more...]

Speeding Up R Shiny – The Definitive Guide

June 30, 2021 | Jakub Sobolewski

Better App Performance – It Can Be Done! Prototyping apps in Shiny is fast and easy, but once an app grows, performance issues may arise. Speeding up Shiny is possible and the methods described below can prevent or resolve these issues. There are a few good practices to have in mind ...
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Tired: PCA + kmeans, Wired: UMAP + GMM

June 29, 2021 | r on Tony ElHabr

Introduction Combining principal component analysis (PCA) and kmeans clustering seems to be a pretty popular 1-2 punch in data science. While there is some debate about whether combining dimensionality reduction and clustering is something we should...
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Reasons to Use Tidymodels

June 29, 2021 | Roel M. Hogervorst

I was listening to episode 135 of ‘Not so standard deviations’ - Moderate confidence The hosts, Hilary and Roger talked about when to use tidymodels packages and when not. Here are my 2 cents for when I think it makes sense to use these packages and ...
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