If you dive deep into inferential statistics, you’re likely to see an acronym ANOVA. It comes in many different flavors, such as one-way, two-way, multivariate, factorial, and so on. We’ll cover the simplest, one-way ANOVA today. We’ll do so from scratch, and then you’ll see how ...
The fifth edition of Why R? Conference (2021.whyr.pl) finished last week. The post presents the highlights of the conference and the overall summary. You can find all videos from the conference on youtube.com/WhyRFoundationVideos channel.
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Two hundred eleven new packages made it to CRAN in November. Here are my “Top 40” picks in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Humanities, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. It was gratifying to see multiple packages developed for applications in the Computational Humanities. ...
Recently, a colleague submitted a paper describing the results of a Bayesian adaptive trial where the research team estimated the probability of effectiveness at various points during the trial. This trial was designed to stop as soon as the probab...
Introduction In my previous blogs, I introduced how to preform depth-first and breadth-first searches in R with R6 objects. After knowing how to do this I explored solving tree-includes problems with both of these searches. In this blog I am going to share how to solve binary “tree sum” problems ...
After three workshops series done in Q4 2021 our teaching has reached its conclusion for this year.
Starting at the end of October Mirai’s workshops have provided data scientists with the chance to learn different tools that can be of great use for ...
The fifth edition of Why R? Conference (2021.whyr.pl) finished last week. The post presents the highlights of the conference and the overall summary. You can find all videos from the conference on youtube.com/WhyRFoundationVideos channel.
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Besides the many negative aspects of going through a pandemic, there are also certain positive ones like having time to write short blog posts like this. This one picks up a topic that was intensively discussed a couple of years ago on Wolfram's page: Namely that the damped sine wave ... [Read more...]
I’m super excited to introduce portfoliodown, a new R package that makes it painless for data scientists to create a polished professional website so they can host their project portfolios, get great job interviews, and launch their data science career...
RStudio believes that you can attain greater business intelligence with interoperable tools that take the full advantage of open-source data science. Your organization may rely on Tableau for reporting purposes, but how can you ensure that you’re... [Read more...]
I am happy and excited as I have just deployed my first shiny app on the web. You can find it running at shiny.rwhitedwarf.com (NOTE: I don’t have ssl certificate so, your browser might tell you that is not secure, but you can trust me that there...
We are thrilled to have been awarded new funding as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science program’s education and capacity building strategy. This $400K grant will support a new project to enable more members of historically exclud... [Read more...]
Introduction
The 29th season of the J.League was won, yet again, by Kawasaki
Frontale who have now won 4 times out of the past 5 seasons. They
still have some way to go to overcome Kashima Antler’s record of 8
league titles but t... [Read more...]
Reading Time: 13 minutes It's time for another basketball analytics tutorial! This is for beginners and intermediate sports analytics enthusiasts. I will show you how to extract and prepare NBA data from basketball-reference.com and create a graph with a player's career stats.
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 ›
When we want to see how something varies across categories, the trellis or small multiple plot is a good friend. We repeatedly draw the same graph once for each category, lining them up in a way that makes them comparable. Here’s an example from ... [Read more...]
Couple of months ago I published a paper in Significance – couple of pages describing the essence of deep learning algorithms, and why they are so popular. I got a few requests for the code which generated the figures in that paper. This weekend I reviewed my code and was content ...
You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: ‘fusen’ v0.3: Better project templates, grouped functions and numerous other enhancements
{fusen} gets some maturity! v0.3 is a big rebranding for a more fluid experience, from beginners to advanced developers. Creating a fully documented ...
Generating data from a uniform distribution using R, without using the runif function Generating data from a uniform distribution using R, without using the runif functionShravan Vasishth12/19/2021 One can easily generate data from a uniform(0,1) using the runif function in R: