July 2021

BERT, reticulate & lexical semantics

July 8, 2021 | Jason Timm

Intro This post provides some quick details on using reticulate to interface Python from RStudio; and, more specifically, using the spacy library and BERT for fine-grained lexical semantic investigation. Here we present a (very cursory) usage-based/BERT-based perspective on the semantic distinction between further and farther, using example contexts extracted ... [Read more...]

Using different fonts with ggplot2

July 8, 2021 | kjytay

I was recently asked to convert all the fonts in my ggplot2-generated figures for a paper to Times New Roman. It turns out that this is easy, but it brought up a whole host of questions that I don’t have … Continue reading →
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Free checklist: 30 Days to Data Analyst

July 7, 2021 | George Mount

“How do I get better at data?” is a question I get a lot. It’s an interesting one to answer — plenty of great resources are out there, it’s just a matter of finding the right sequence for the right objective and circumstances. I assume “get better at data” ...
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About

July 6, 2021 | Albert Rapp

Welcome! My Name is Albert Rapp and I am currently a PhD student in mathematics at Ulm University. As part of my obligations as a PhD student I had to teach an applied course on statistical techniques using the statistical software R. Interestingly, I ... [Read more...]

almost reversed 2-lag Markov chain

July 6, 2021 | xi'an

Another simple riddle from the Riddler: take a binary sequence and associate to this sequence a score vector made of the numbers of consecutive ones from each position. If the sequence is ten step long and there are 3 ones located at random, what is the expected total score? (The original ... [Read more...]

Hey Data Scientists from Germany – eoda is hiring

July 6, 2021 | eoda GmbH

We are hiring: Data Scientist and Senior Data Scientist Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – these are the buzzwords you hear every day. But for you they are more than just buzzwords? You are familiar with the methods, technologies and working methods behind them, know how to use them ...
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We are e-going to useR!2021

July 6, 2021 | Mirai Solutions

Check out Mirai’s contributions to useR!2021. This year’s useR! conference will be held as an online event, designed to be global and give space to the amazing ecosystem that is the R Practitioners Community. The program is very interesting and inc... [Read more...]

Walkthrough UbiOps and Tidymodels

July 5, 2021 | Roel M. Hogervorst

In this walkthrough I modified a tutorial from the UbiOps cookbook ‘Python Scikit learn and UbiOps’, but I replaced everything python with R. So in stead of scikitlearn I’m using {tidymodels}, and where python uses a requirement.txt, I will use {renv}. So in a way I’m going ...
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breaking sticks of various length

July 5, 2021 | xi'an

A riddle from the Riddler with a variation on the theme of breaking sticks: Given a stick of length L, what is the optimal manner to break said stick to achieve a maximal product of the individual lengths? While the pen & paper resolution is a one-line back-of-the-envelope calculation, with an ...
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