A few weeks ago, I was listening to The Athletic NBA Show podcast (Episode 581: “5 Players I was wrong about, 20 Games in Contenders, and Sam Vecenie on the 2021 Rookie Class”) and the following statistic caught my attention: … Continue reading →

I created the following video in R from ground up:https://vimeo.com/645508457https://medium.com/media/94629bc728592c01be97df6270d6c4fb/hrefThis article will give you a general understanding of the process creating the visualization above. To replicate ...

Something I have learned the hard way: every single line of code that I write should be accompanied by a unit test. Unit tests are not only useful for me as a developer to spot bugs, but a thorough sequence of unit tests should also increase others’ confidence in the ...

The function knit-deleting-service-files() is designed to avoid (R) Markdown knitting errors caused by service files from previous knittings (e.g., manuscript.tex, ZHJhZnQtYXBhLlJtZA==.Rmd, manuscript.synctex.gz). The function first suggests deleti...

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 ›

Cover photo by Mourizal Zativa on Unsplash Go to R-bloggers for R news and tutorials contributed by hundreds of R bloggers. Introduction This is the first of a series of 6 articles about time series forecasting with panel data and ensemble stacking wit...

Jonathan Lin of the Calgary R User group (meetup | website) talks to R Consortium about their adaptation into the COVID world and their struggles with the higher production value... The post Calgary R User Group on the Importance of Math Education appeared first on R Consortium.

The update contains some breaking changes and brings a lot of new features and operators, which markedly improves using containers in both interactive R sessions and code development. Also there is a new class dict.table to support the data.table pack...

NBA Playoffs and the Lakers Data Prep Scraping Betting Markets Steps Joining with FiveThirtyEight data Analysis How much does FiveThirtyEight differ from markets? Closing Thought Appendix Potential Reasons for the Difference Calculating percentiles of diff TLDR: FiveThirtyEight’s forecasts of NBA playoff berths seem to hold-up OK against betting markets. ...

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 ›

Introduction Following the same style of my previous blogs on binary search. In this blog I present how solve “tree includes” problems in R with R6 objects. The solutions and the code is based on my translation of Alvin the Programmer’s javascript code into R from his video on ...

It is easy to get started with Shiny – luckily, your apps can be hosted for free to be shared with the world.

I love a lot about R except that its name is not great for SEO. When you’re very new to R it can be a bit hard to google solutions to your problems. In learning any new skill or tool it’s difficult to know what to google in ...

We are excited to announce this year’s winners of the 2021 RStudio Table Contest. Display tables are a fundamental way we summarize and communicate information. But in many instances, these are boring and created without as much thought as they ...