Plankton may be small, but they are mighty. These organisms play a crucial role in maintaining the health of our oceans. Their diversity and abundance make them a primary source of food for many marine animals. And they produce around half of the world’s oxygen! Understanding how plankton reacts ...

I was cranking out a blog post for work earlier this week that shows off just how many integrations our platform has. I won’t blather about that content here, but as I was working on it, I really wanted to show off all the integrations. A table seemed far ...

Last week collapse reached 1M downloads off CRAN. This is a milestone that was largely unforeseen for a package that started 4 years ago as a collection of functions intended to ease the R life of an economics master student. Today, collapse provid...

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named a Finalist in the British Data Awards 2023. The British Data Awards is an annual quest to discover and celebrate data success stories. Organisatio...

It has been well over a year since my last entry, I have been rather quiet because someone has been rather loud 👶 Just last week I found some time to rewrite a draft on gradient descent from about two years ago, so here we are – back in business! Gradient descent ...

Part 1: Before I Knew What Data Science Was When I graduated from Penn State in 2007, I spent the first couple of years as a mechanical engineer learning all there was to know about engineering valves. Eventually, I landed at a company called Bonney ...

The ongoing debate recently in Turkey is that the Turkish government has suppressed US Dollar/Turkish Lira exchange rates (USD/TRY) to prevent economic turmoil. Many authorities in the business, especially exporters, think that the USD/TRY parity should be in the range of 24-25 Turkish Lira. To look through ...

I’ve used the credit card fraud dataset from Datacamp for a variety of projects, most notabily the tidymodels and imbalance class tutorials. I’ve used it when I was learning Tableau and also Python. One advantage of working with the same dataset...

1. Classification using tidymodels I will walk through a classification problem from importing the data, cleaning, exploring, fitting, choosing a model, and finalizing the model. I wanted to create a project that could serve as a template for oth...

Introduction In the analytics realm whether some like it or not, Excel is huge and maybe King. This is due to the fact of the shear volume of people using it. Microsoft has positioned Excel well in this situation, but, that does not mean we cann...

This post presents a real highlight: We will build and backtest a quantitative trading strategy in R with the help of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4! If you want to get a glimpse into the future of trading system development, read on! On this blog, I already provided a template to build ...

As I’ve started working on more complicated machine learning projects, I’ve leaned into the tidymodels approach. Tidymodels is a highly modular approach, and I felt it reduced the number of errors, especially when evaluating many machine models an...

Passive scalar turbulence is the study of how a scalar quantity, such as temperature or salinity, is transported by an incompressible fluid. This process is modeled by the advection diffusion equation \[\begin{equation} \partial_tg_t + u_t\cdot\nabl...

sp evolution status Splitting R_LIBS ASDAR examples using sf or terra Which sf or terra methods or functions match retiring methods or functions? Conserving sp workflows "SpatVector" coercion "sf" "Spati...

It is carnival time again as IPL 2023 is underway!! The new GooglyPlusPlus now includes AI/ML models for computing ball-by-ball Win Probability of matches and each individual player’s Win Probability Contribution (WPC). GooglyPlusPlus uses 2 ML models Besides, as before, GooglyPlusPlus will also include the usual near real-time analytics with ...