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July 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

August 26, 2020 | R Views

One hundred sixty-one new packages made it to CRAN in July. Here are my “Top 40” picks in seven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Science, Statistics, and Utilities. Computational Methods libgeos v3.8-1-3: Implements API access the Open Source Geometry Engine GEOS which can be used to write ...
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Monitor COVID-19 at the COVID-19 Forecast Hub

August 9, 2020 | R Views

If you are looking for a place to monitor expert forecasts for United States weekly and cumulative COVID-19 deaths, you can’t do any better than the Reich Lab (University of Massachusetts) COVID-19 Forecast Hub. The same is true for data scientists who may be seeking to publish their own ...
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June 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

July 26, 2020 | R Views

Two hundred ninety new packages made it to CRAN in June. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomes, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilization, and Visualization. Computational Methods Rfractran v1.0 Implements the esoteric, Turing complete FRACTRAN programming language invented by John Horton Conway. ...
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Building A Neural Net from Scratch Using R – Part 2

July 23, 2020 | R Views

Akshaj is a budding deep learning researcher who loves to work with R. He has worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science and as a Data Scientist at KPMG India. In the previous post, we went through the dataset, the pre-processing involved, train-test split, and talked ...
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Building A Neural Net from Scratch Using R – Part 1

July 19, 2020 | R Views

Akshaj is a budding deep learning researcher who loves to work with R. He has worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science and as a Data Scientist at KPMG India. A lot of deep learning frameworks often abstract away the mechanics behind training a neural network. ...
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R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp

July 7, 2020 | R Views

Daniel Hanson is a full-time lecturer in the Computational Finance & Risk Management program within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His appointment followed over 25 years of experience in private sector quantitative development in finance and data science. One of the most time-consuming, tedious, and thankless tasks ...
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Open-Source Authorship of Data Science in Education Using R

June 30, 2020 | R Views

Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of STEM Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In earlier posts, we shared how we wrote Data Science in Education Using R as an open book (Post 1, Post 2). In this post, we describe what we consider to be the open-source authorship ...
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May 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

June 23, 2020 | R Views

One hundred eighty-four new packages stuck to CRAN in May. The following are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Data, Finance, Genomics, Marketing, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data covid19nytimes v0.1.3: Provides accesses the NY Times Covid-19 county-level data for the US that is ...
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R Can Pull the Fire Alarm!

June 17, 2020 | R Views

Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at Old Dominion University There are times when it would be really nice to get an email from R. Maybe you ...
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Learning R With Education Datasets

June 10, 2020 | R Views

Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Timothy Gallwey wrote in The Inner Game of Tennis: …There is a natural learning process which operates within everyone, if it is allowed to. This process is waiting ... [Read more...]

More Select COVID-19 Resources

June 2, 2020 | R Views

We are over five months into this pandemic, and it is pretty clear that almost everyone is really tired of hearing about it. I myself am totally zoomed out and have already seen too many dashboards. Nevertheless, we are in this for the long run. So from time-to-time, I think ...
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April 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

May 27, 2020 | R Views

One hundred forty-eight new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods JuliaConnectoR v0.6.0: Allows users to import Julia packages and functions in such a way that they ...
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Community and Collaboration: Writing Our Book in the Open

May 25, 2020 | R Views

Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Chicken Farm in the Open In 2017, Emily Bovee, Jesse Mostipak, Joshua Rosenberg, Isabella Velásquez, and I started work on our book, Data Science in Education Using R (...
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Modern Rule-Based Models

May 20, 2020 | R Views

Modern Rule-Based Models Machine learning models come in many shapes and sizes. While deep learning models currently have the lion’s share of coverage, there are many other classes of models that are effective across many different problem domains. This post gives a short summary of several rule-based models that ...
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