Our Covid19 app provides global view of the pandemic, but how effective is the vaccination in Switzerland? Since May 2020 we are showing on our gallery a dashboard with a global view of the COVID-19 Pandemic, including a split by continent and count...

I’m SUPER EXCITED to show fellow time-series enthusiasts a new way that we can scale time series analysis using an amazing technology called Spark! Without Spark, large-scale forecasting projects of 10,000 time series can take days to run because of long-running for-loops and the need to test many models on ...

This post by Emily Riederer is the winning entry in our recent Call for Documentation contest. Emily is a Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One where she leads a team building internal analytical tools including R packages, datamarts, and Shiny apps. Outside of work, Emily can be found sharing more ...

In June 2020, GitHub announced that is was moving the default branch name from master to the more neutral name, main. GitLab followed suit in a few months later. Tobie Langel makes the salient point on why changing the name is a good thing: So master is not only racist, it’...

 Part of the motivation behind making the course Statistics and Gambling is to infuse new applicability into introductory or intermediate probability courses. This blog post is a look at how the course is going to cover familiar probability topics...

Data science is advancing into nearly every industry from pharma and banking to sales and logistics. And why not — when data science is properly integrated it results in a performance boost, faster implementation, or process automation (read: money, money, money). The pharmaceutical and medical industries are no exception. Every top ...

Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R, In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert categorical values into quantitative values to make statistical modeling easier. Most statistical models can’t take in strings as inputs. We&#82...

Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R, In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert categorical values into quantitative values to make statistical modeling easier. Most statistical models can’t take in strings as inputs.... The post Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R appeared first on finnstats.

R consortium talks to Nino Macharashvili of DataFest Tbilisi (also on Facebook) on how they are dealing with life in the COVID age. As they were one of the early... The post DataFest Tbilisi talks about AI, the need for people, and setting up teaching programs appeared first on R ...

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/ Reshaping time-to-event data The first thing we should consider before working through this tutorial is the str...

Fathom Data has been doing a lot of work with the HCRIS (Healthcare Cost Report Information System) data. The underlying reports are submitted as a spreadsheet with multiple sheets. The data are then extracted and recorded in a simple tabular format, with each field linked to a worksheet code (wksht_...

This year 2021, we are witnessing a rare spectacle in the cricketing universe, where IPL playoffs are immediately followed by ICC World Cup T20. Cricket pundits have claimed such a phenomenon occurs once in 127 years! Jokes apart, the World cup T20 is underway and as usual GooglyPlusPlus is ready for the ...

The largest data journalism conference in Latin America reaches its sixth edition in a row bringing discussions on the climate crisis, access to information, and data protection, in addition to... The post Largest Data Journalism Conference in Latin America Coda.Br Starts Nov 8 appeared first on R Consortium.

Binning in R, you will learn about data binning in this tutorial. Binning develops distinct categories from numerical data that are frequently continuous. It’s very handy for comparing different sets of data. Binning is a pre-processing proce...