December 2021

Stats and R is 2 years old!

December 15, 2021 | R on Stats and R

Introduction Analytics Users and page views Page views over time Page views per channel Page views per day of week and month of year Page views per month and year Top performing pages Page views by country User engagement by devices Browser information End note Introduction Stats and R has ...

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Job vacancies at Jumping Rivers!

December 15, 2021 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

In line with the continuous growth at Jumping Rivers, we are looking to expand our team of dedicated professionals working in our teams. If you are enthusiastic and keen to develop your skills in ...

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Advent of 2021, Day 14 – Introduction to Spark Streaming

December 15, 2021 | tomaztsql

Series of Apache Spark posts: Dec 01: What is Apache Spark Dec 02: Installing Apache Spark Dec 03: Getting around CLI and WEB UI in Apache Spark Dec 04: Spark Architecture – Local and cluster mode Dec 05: Setting up Spark Cluster Dec 06: Setting up IDE Dec…Read more ›

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How to Connect R to Google Sheets Using googlesheets4

December 15, 2021 | Zuzanna

Manipulating data in sheets can be a tedious task, but if you have at least a bit of a programmer inside you, you can make your work with Google sheets much easier. How – you ask? By connecting R to Google sheets using the googlesheets4 package provided by tidyverse. This article ...

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How to Find Unique Values in R

December 15, 2021 | finnstats

Visit for the most up-to-date information on Data Science, employment, and tutorials finnstats. If you want to read the original article, go here How to Find Unique Values in R To find unique values in a column in a data frame, use the unique() function in R. In Exploratory Data ... [Read more...]

Awardees of Supporting grant for Women in Data Science

December 15, 2021 | Why R? Foundation

This Friday, during Why R? 2021 Conference, we announced awardees of Supporting grant for Women in Data Science. This was the 4th edition of the grant. In this post we present their silhouettes! Awardees Maja Jabłońska Maja is currently finishing h... [Read more...]

RObservations # 19: Breadth-first search for Binary Trees

December 14, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

Introduction In my last blog I shared how to do a depth-first search in R by using R6 classes. In this short blog I’m going to show how to do a breadth-first search. Breadth-first search: A brief explination. In contrast to a depth-first search which traverses a tree by ...

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Sharing Data With the pins Package

December 14, 2021 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

Photo by Universal Eye on Unsplash Teams often need access to key data to do their work, but have you ever opened your coworker’s script to see: dat

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Topic modeling for #TidyTuesday Spice Girls lyrics

December 14, 2021 | rstats | Julia Silge

This is the latest in my series of screencasts, but instead of being about tidymodels, this screencast focuses on unsupervised modeling for text, specifically topic modeling. Today’s screencast walks through how to build a structural topic model and...

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Gold-Mining Week 15 (2021)

December 14, 2021 | Michael Griebe

Week 15 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 15 (2021) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

Awardees of Community award for Outstanding Community Leaders

December 14, 2021 | Why R? Foundation

This Friday, during Why R? 2021 Conference we announced awardees of Community award for Outstanding Community Leaders. We are thankful for every input our awardees provided for R community. You can find their biograms belows. Dr. Hedia Tnani got her ... [Read more...]

How to Split data into train and test in R

December 14, 2021 | finnstats

finnstats:-For the latest Data Science, jobs and UpToDate tutorials visit finnstats Split data into train and test in r, It is critical to partition the data into training and testing sets when using supervised learning algorithms such as Linear Regression, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes classification,... The post How ... [Read more...]

10 Tips and Tricks for Data Scientists Vol.12

December 14, 2021 | George Pipis

We have started a series of articles on tips and tricks for data scientists (mainly in Python, R, SQL and Bash). ... Read more10 Tips and Tricks for Data Scientists Vol.12 [Read more...]

GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!

December 14, 2021 | Tinniam V Ganesh

Analytics for e.g. sports analytics, business analytics or analytics in e-commerce or in other domain has 2 main requirements namely a) What kind of analytics (set of parameters,function) will squeeze out the most intelligence from the data b) How to represent the analytics so that an expert can garner ...

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Optimising dplyr

December 14, 2021 | Tom Jemmett

By Tom Jemmett Recently in a project I was working on I encountered an issue where one code chunk in […] The post Optimising dplyr appeared first on NHS-R Community. [Read more...]

New paper in Computational Brain and Behavior: Sample size determination for Bayesian hierarchical models commonly used in psycholinguistics

December 14, 2021 | Shravan Vasishth

We have just had a paper accepted in the journal Computational Brain and Behavior. This is part of a special issue that responds to the following paper on linear mixed models: van Doorn, J., Aust, F., Haaf, J.M. et al. Bayes Factors for Mix...

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RObservations #18: Depth-first search for Binary Trees.

December 13, 2021 | Benjamin Smith

Introduction The more I use R, the more I am convinced that you can do anything with it. Recently, I checked out FreeCodeCamp’s video “Binary Tree Algothritms for Technical Interviews” and was told that I can write the code in any language I want. While Alvin used Javascript, I ...

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How to split vector and data frame in R

December 13, 2021 | finnstats

finnstats:-For the latest Data Science, jobs and UpToDate tutorials visit finnstats Split vector and data frame in R, splitting data into groups depending on factor levels can be done with R’s split() function. Split() is a built-in R function that divides a vector or data... The post How ... [Read more...]

Osun R User Group in Nigeria talks about Spreading the Gospel of R across Africa

December 13, 2021 | R Consortium

The R consortium spoke with Timothy Ogunleye on adapting to fit the system during the lockdown. We found out how they were able to adjust and move from having so... The post Osun R User Group in Nigeria talks about Spreading the Gospel of R across Africa appeared first on ...