Today I’m going to talk about a useful family of functions that allows you to repetitively perform a specified function (e.g., sum(), mean()) across a vector, list, matrix, or data frame. For those of you familiar with ‘for’ loops, th...

I thought I’d try Julia out and see how far I could get with nothing but Google on my side.

Are the distinct residential property bands of 3 decades ago becoming less so? Over the years, urban properties have been added to and divided up. And two streets of equal attractiveness, and with equivalently-banded properties, may have diverged as neighbourhoods evolved. Whilst properties can and do move to higher or lower ...

rstudio::conf, the conference for all things R and RStudio, will take place July 25-28 in National Harbor, DC! As usual, we’ll have two days of workshops followed by two days of talks. If you’ve attended before and already know you want to ...

In this tutorial, we will run a simple network analysis on retweets that contain the hashtag “#Crypto” by taking into ... Read moreRetweet Network Analysis in Cryptocurrencies

Plotting Big Data and Alpha When plotting too many data points, we use alpha= because points are overlapped and indistinguishable. library(dplyr) library(data.table) library(cowplot) library(ggplot2) #N

In a previous post, we showed how to get Twitter data using Python. In this tutorial, we will show you ... Read moreHow to Get Twitter Data using R

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.12.2 is a bug fix release. In particular, this release fixes ...

Conditional RNN is one of the possible solutions if we’d like to make use of static features in time series forecasting. For example, we want to build a model, which can handle multiple time series with many different characteristics. It can be a mode...

For some reason, using other than the default font in plots has been a major problem for me in R. Supposedly, one can use the extrafont package to manage all of that but I found it too cumbersome. Instead, I found out that the showtext package can make my life ...