sha256 1 478ec2042047eb285ec4d30177a825af0f8b106a38ac1faeb863c6c1c9df407f Shikokuchuo About ichimoku The ichimoku R package provides tools for creating and visualising Ichimoku Kinko Hyo...

I think that the “difficult” R learning curve is a myth. That’s because what people call the “R learning curve” is actually the combination of several disparate skill sets that are often taught as one conglomerated curricu...

I’m a big proponent of enabling the reading time option on this blog which uses Hugo’s academic theme. I always appreciate seeing it on other blogs so I know how much time to invest in the post. I also like it because its a feedback mechanism for me ...

Enterprise Shiny App Webinar: Mark Your Calendar! Appsilon and RStudio are teaming up to bring you a Shiny X-Session event on Aug 10, 2021 @ 12PM – 2PM EST. The theme of the event is “Enterprise Shiny Apps from Concept to Production.” The Shiny experts at Appsilon will guide you through building durable code, ...

Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic challenge. You can find the source Rmd on GitHub, but I’m also testing the limits of WP’s markdown rendering and putting it in-stream as well. No longer book expository this ...

Marta Cifuentes and Wayne Crismani asked on Twitter if there is a web tool similar to the Arabidopsis Chromosome Map Tool that makes figures of genes on chromosomes for humans. This will not really be an answer to the question — not a web tool, not conveniently packaged — but I thought ...

In the previous post I introduced the {tomtom} package and showed how it can be used for geographic routing. Now we’re going to look at the traffic statistics returned by the TomTom API. As before we’ll need to load the {tomtom} package and specif...

This post explains how to calculate delta sensitivities or delta vector of interest rate swap, especially delta. delta can be calculated by either 1) zero delta or 2) market delta. To the best of our knowledge, FRTB can use these two methods but SIM...

In this post I’ll be taking a break from my normal explorations in the medical device domain to talk about Sliced. Sliced is a 2-hour data science competition streamed on Twitch and hosted by Meg Risdal and Nick Wan. Four competitors tackle a prediction problem in real time using ...

Did the recent unrest in South Africa have a detectable effect on mobility patterns? Google Mobility Data Google has used anonymised data personal location data to gather information on mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. These data are free...

The powercurve function from the simr package in R (Green & MacLeod, 2016) can incur very long running times when the method used for the calculation of p values is Kenward-Roger or Satterthwaite (see Luke, 2017). Here I suggest three ways for cutting down this time. Where possible, use a high-performance (or high-end) ...

The useR! conference took place as a global online conference and we are eager to share some impressions. This year’s useR! conference was quite different from those in the past due to its virtual and global design: its schedule was almost 24/7 an...

Shiny Server is one of the most popular options to host unlimited Shiny web applications and interactive R markdown documents for free.

Yesterday Olga Tokarczuk (2018 Nobel Prize in Literature) said in an interview that when she thinks about literature, she no longer thinks about books!!!So, how should we effectively tell the most important story in predictive modelling i.e. The story ...