Introduction In this blog post, I’ll use the data that I cleaned in a previous blog post, which you can download here. If you want to follow along, download the monthly data. In my last blog post I showed how to perform a grid search the “tidy” way. As an example, I looked for the right hyperparameters of a SARIMA model. However, the goal of...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. Peter Provost ports some 80's-era BASIC programs for kids to R. In a podcast for Fringe FM, I discuss the ethics of AI, Microsoft and Open Source, and the R Community. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from October...
Many R users appear to be big fans of "code capturing" or "non standard evaluation" (NSE) interfaces. In this note we will discuss quoting and non-quoting interfaces in R. The above terms are simply talking about interfaces where a name to be used is captured from the source code the user typed, and thus does … Continue reading Quoting...
I’m writing a series of posts on various function options of the glmnet function (from the package of the same name), hoping to give more detail and insight beyond R’s documentation. In this post, we will focus on the standardize … Continue reading →
Week 11 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining Week 11 (2018) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
I love the formattable package, but I always struggle to remember its syntax. A quick Google search reveals that I’m not alone in this struggle....
Right now Rcpp stands at 1500 reverse-dependencies on CRAN. The graph is on the left depicts the growth of Rcpp usage (as measured by Depends, Imports and LinkingTo, but excluding Suggests) over time. What an amazing few days this has been as we als...
Literature reviews are the cornerstone of science. Keeping abreast of developments within any given field of enquiry has become increasingly difficult given the enormous amounts of new research. Databases and search technology have made finding relevant literature easy but, keeping a coherent overview of the discourse within a field of enquiry is an ever more … Continue reading "Discourse...
Introduction In this blog post, I’ll use the data that I cleaned in a previous blog post, which you can download here. If you want to follow along, download the monthly data. In the previous blog post, I used the auto.arima() function to very quickly get a “good-enough” model to predict future monthly total passengers flying from LuxAirport. “Good-enough” models can be all you need in...
This note is just a quick follow-up to our last note on correcting the bias in estimated standard deviations for binomial experiments. For normal deviates there is, of course, a well know scaling correction that returns an unbiased estimate for observed standard deviations. It (from the same source): … provides an example where imposing the … Continue reading More...
Consider this my Good Deed for the Day!A re-tweet from a colleague whom I follow on Twitter brought an important paper to my attention. I thought I'd share it more widely.The paper is titled, "Small-sample methods for cluster-robust variance estimation and hypothesis testing in fixed effect models", by James Pustejovski (@jepusto) and Beth Tipton (@stats-tipton). It appears in The Journal of Business and Economic...
Despite their now inherent evil status, GitHub has some tools other repository aggregators do not. One such tool is the free vulnerability alert service which will scan repositories for outdated+vulnerable dependencies. Now, “R” is nowhere near a first-class citizen in the internet writ large, including software development tooling (e.g. the Travis-CI and GitLab continuous integration... Continue reading →
A new minor clean-up release of the anytime package arrived on CRAN overnight. This is the fourteenth release, and follows the 0.3.2 release a good week ago. anytime is a very focused package aiming to do just one thing really well: to convert anythi...
by Angelika Stefan & Felix Schönbrodt Almost all researchers have experienced the tingling feeling of suspense that arises right before they take a look at long-awaited data: Will they support their favored hypothesis? Will they yield interesting or even groundbreaking results? In a perfect world (especially one without publication bias), the cause of this suspense The post Gazing into...
The windows clipboard is a quick way to get data in and out of R. How can we exploit this feature to accomplish our basic data exploration needs and when might its use be inappropriate? Read on. Overview Paste Data from Clipboard to R HTML Tables Spreadsheets Copy Data from R to Clipboard Summary and Usage Notes Paste Data...
In previous post I wrote about how to set connection with Magento 2 REST API from R and make queries to universal search. Now let’s see how use filtered search. Also we’ll use other than universal search endpoints that provide access to more specific Magento 2 store information. Using filtered… The post R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited:...
A few years ago, when I first became aware of Topological Data Analysis (TDA), I was really excited by the possibility that the elegant theorems of Algebraic Topology could provide some new insights into the practical problems of data analysis. But time has passed, and the sober assessment of Larry Wasserman seems to describe where things stand. TDA is an...
I recently picked up a copy of my favorite game Stardew Valley again. If you don’t know the game, I can highly recommend it! You inherit a pixel farm and you are in charge of everything. Crops, animals, fishing, mining and never forget to socialize. My plan was to shut off work for at least a few hours while playing. But at...
In this blog post, I will show you how you can quickly and easily forecast a univariate time series. I am going to use data from the EU Open Data Portal on air passenger transport. You can find the data here. I downloaded the data in the TSV format for Luxembourg Airport, but you could repeat the analysis for any airport. Once you...
In the first article of this series, I built an Alpine-based Docker image with R base packages from Alpine’s native repositories, as well as one image with R compiled from source code. The images are hosted on Docker Hub, velaco/alpine-r repository...
Last week at the ODSC West conference, I was thrilled with the interest in my Using AI for Good workshop: it was wonderful to find a room full of data scientists eager to learn how data science and artificial intelligence can be used to help people and the planet. The workshop was focused around projects from the Microsoft AI...
So you know lapply, sapply, and apply…but…what about rapply, vapply, or eapply? These are generally a little less known as far as the apply family of functions in R go, so this post will explore how they work. rapply Let’s start with rapply. This function has a couple of different purposes. One is to recursively The post Those “other”...
CategoriesVisualizing Data Tags Data Visualisation ggplot2 R Programming One of the most frustrating issues I face in my professional life is the plentitude of ineffective reports generated within my company. Wherever I look around me is plenty of junk charts, like barplot showing useless 3D effects or ambiguous and crowded pie charts. I do understand the root causes of this desperate state of Related...
The glmnet function (from the package of the same name) is probably the most used function for fitting the elastic net model in R. (It also fits the lasso and ridge regression, since they are special cases of elastic net.) … Continue reading →
I did a remote install of Ubuntu Server today. This was somewhat novel because it’s the first time that I have not had physical access to the machine I was installing on. The server install went very smoothly indeed. The next tasks were to install RStudio Server and Shiny Server. The installation process for each of these is well documented...
Dean Attali wrote this nice post a few years ago describing knitr’s spin function. This function allows a regular R file, with comments written with the roxygen2-style comment tag #' to be rendered as an HTML document with the comments rendered as text and the results of the R code rendered in place, much as a RMarkdown document would. The basic...
We’re pleased to announce the CRAN release of Shiny v1.2.0! This release features Plot Caching, an important new tool for improving performance and scalability in Shiny apps. If you’re not familiar with the term “caching”, it just means that when we perform a time-consuming operation, we save (cache) the results so that the next time that operation is requested, we...
At the upcoming This week in machine learning and AI European online Meetup, I’ll be presenting and leading a discussion about the Anchors paper, the next generation of machine learning interpretability tools. Come and join the fun! :-) Date: Tuesda...
Antarctic/Southern Ocean science and rOpenSci Collaboration and reproducibility are fundamental to Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, and the value of data to Antarctic science has long been promoted. The Antarctic Treaty (which came into force in 1...
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