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R and Excel go together like macaroni and cheese. There’s no need to choose one over the other, as there are numerous packages and extensions that allow them to work together. Just because you have an xlsx file doesn’t mean you can’t analyze it with R. Likewise, ...

How did changes in life and emotional states affect the creativity and output of the great composers Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt? (Yeah, 3 composers are studied but Mozart seems to sell best, so he is in the title.) In his great article How Are You, My...

Photo by Jake Givens on Unsplash This is a guest post from Ryan Garnett, Ray Wong, and Dan Reed from Green Shield Canada. Green Shield Canada, a social enterprise and one of the country’s largest health benefits carriers, currently serves over 4.5 mi...

Sat, April 30, 11am West Africa Time (WAT) Organized by the OSUN R USERS GROUP, Nigeria, and coordinated by Timothy A. OGUNLEYE. Speaker Kevin O’Brien is an active contributor of... The post Free webinar: Statistical Model Diagnostics and Validation Techniques using R appeared first on R Consortium.

As part of our eoda | analytic infrastructure consulting we are looking for a System Engineer in the field of analytic infrastructure landscapes.   With strong problem-solving skills and focused on the requirements of our customers, you will work on varied projects as part of an interdisciplinary, agile team. You develop existing ...

How to combine model interpretation package "flashlight" with "plotly"?

Your production system just broke down. What should you do now? Can you imagine your shiny application / flask app, or your API service breaking down? As a beginning programmer, or operations (or devops) person it can be overwhelming to deal with logs,...

24 April 2022 This update to Big Book of R happened a little differently than the previous ones in that I livestreamed while I was updating it. During the update I felt that there were enough books for the topic of Finance to warrant it’s own chapter! Thanks to Zachary … The ...

This post explains how to forecast yield curves using Dynamic Nelson-Siegel model given information of estimated parameters. Forecasting of Dynamic Nelson-Siegel model We estimated parameters of dynamic Nelson-Seigel model in the pre...

Introduction Recently I discovered stackshare.io’s stackups which offers comparisons of different programming languages as well as their pros and cons. While looking at the all too classic comparison available between R and Python I noticed that one of the cons listed was: Messy syntax for string concatenation While ...