Introduction My package {r2r} (v0.1.1) has been accepted by CRAN, and is now available for download from the public repository. r2r r2r provides a flexible implementation of hash tables in R, allowing for: arbitrary R objects as keys and value...

We have started a series of articles on tips and tricks for data scientists (mainly in Python and R). In case you have ... Read more10 Tips and Tricks for Data Scientists Vol.10

(If you haven’t read part I, you can find it here.) Alright, this is a long overdue post: back in October, I promised a part II to show how to pull data from the web via an API. Well, better late than never! Web APIs There is so much ...

library(simplevis) library(dplyr) library(palmerpenguins) Introduction simplevis provides gglot2 (and leaflet) wrapper functions to make it easier to make beautiful visualisation with less brainpower required. In the first simplevis blog po...

This post explains how to construct ETF tracking error (TE) minimization and introduce R packages which perform (sparse) index tracking. ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is a traded fund listed on the exchange. ETF tries to mimic or follow a target benchm...

I remember my first days of coding R: I would search around for how to do X task, and find out that Y package would be really helpful. But that led to more questions: What are packages in the first place, and how do you use them? In this post, ...

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partial correlation coefficient r, When we want to find the linear relationship between two variables, we often choose the Pearson correlation coefficient. But some... The post How to Calculate Partial Correlation coefficient in R-Quick Guide appeared first on finnstats.

I saw this post on Reddit’s r/dataisbeautiful showing this plot of streaming services market share, comparing 2020 to 2021 US Streaming Services Market Share, 2020 vs 2021 and thought it looked like a good candidate for trying out some plot improvem...

The Turkish president thinks that high interest rates cause inflation, contrary to the traditional economic approach. For this reason, he dismissed two central bank chiefs within a year. And yes, unfortunately, the central bank officials have limited independence doing their job in Turkey contrary to the rest of the world. ...

Spatial joins allow to augment one spatial dataset with information from another spatial dataset by linking overlapping features. In this … Read More →