How can we contribute to the development of early career researchers in a lab environment? I’m talking about how people in the lab acquire “soft skills” or “get better” in ways that are parallel to doing research. This sort of training can get overlooked in the chase for new results and the excitement of doing
In this blog post I want to explore the EU regulation for average CO2 emissions of manufacturer’s car fleets using the EU data set of newly registered cars. The data was already studied on an aggregate level in my earlier post. Here we explore, in particular, the monetary implications of the regulatory details for different car manufactures and car...
Learning Machines proudly presents a fascinating guest post by decision and risk analyst Robert D. Brown III with a great application of R in the business and especially startup-arena! I encourage you to visit his blog too: Thales’ Press. Have fun! Introduction While Excel remains the tool of choice among analysts for business case analysis, … Continue reading "Business...
The new year has started and we at MilanoR are deep into the frantic organization of the third European R User Meeting (eRum). eRum will take place next May (27-30) in Milan, it is a nonprofit event and completely community-driven. An impressive array of experts, enthusiasts and R professionals will animate the conference. We expect The post eRum2020: call...
By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science, to help healthcare professionals understand the topic and to work … Continue reading →
Background This post is going to talk about how to import Python classes into R, which can be done using a really awesome package in R called reticulate. reticulate allows you to call Python code from R, including sourcing Python scripts, using Python packages, and porting functions and classes. To install reticulate, we can run: The post How to...
In the MAT7381 course (graduate course on regression models), we will talk about optimization, and a classical tool is the so-called conjugate. Given a function its conjugate is function such that so, long story short, is the maximum gap between the linear function and . Just to visualize, consider a simple parabolic function (in dimension 1) , then is...
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A board game as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: 11 players in a circle and 365 tokens first owned by a single player. Players with at least two tokens can either remove one token and give another one left or move two right and one left. How quickly does the game stall, how many
Northern Scotland broken GB December temperature records in 2019, how has time affected snow cover?
I saw this CNBC article on an in-theory browser client-side-only conversion utility for taking Apple Card PDF statements and turning them into CSV files. Since I (a) never trust any browser or site and (b) the article indicated that there is a $5 fee to avoid the “single random transaction removal”, I felt compelled to... Continue reading →
Sudoku is a classical logical game based on combinatorial number replacement puzzle. Objective is to to fill 9×9 matrix with digits so that each column, each row, and each box (3×3 sub-grid) of nine contain all of the digits from…Read more ›
H2O is the scalable, open-source Machine Learning library that features AutoML. Here are 5 Reasons why it's an essential library for creating production data science code. Full-Stack Data Science Series This is part of a series of articles on ...
English French German The newest release of the pointblank package makes it really easy to validate your data with workflows attuned to your data quality needs. You can install pointblank 0.3 from CRAN with: install.packages("pointblank") The design goals of pointblank are to enable two important data validation workflows with a common set of validation step functions, and, to have the code work seamlessly with...
The oil-to-gas ratio was recently at its highest level since October 2013, as Middle East saber-rattling and a recovering global economy supported oil, while natural gas remained oversupplied despite entering the major draw season. Even though the ratio has eased in the last week, it remains over one standard deviation above its long-term average. Is now the time to...
Pedro Coutinho Silva is a software engineer at Appsilon Data Science. It is not always possible to create a dashboard that fully meets your expectations or requirements using only existing libraries. Maybe you want a specific function that needs to be custom built, or maybe you want to add your own style or company branding. Whatever the case, a moment...
Astrolabe Diagnostics is a fully bootstrapped five-person biotech startup. We offer the Antibody Staining Data Set (ASDS), a free service that helps immunologists find out the expression of different molecules (markers) across subsets in the immune system. Essentially, the ASDS is a big table of numbers, where every row is a subset and every column a … Continue reading How...
There will be no better time or place this year to accelerate your knowledge of all things R and RStudio than at rstudio::conf 2020 in San Francisco. While we’re approaching capacity, there’s still room for you! Whether you’re a dedic...
One the greatest strengths of R for data science work is the vast number and variety of packages and capabilities that are available. However, it can be intimidating to navigate this large and dynamic open source ecosystem, especially for a newcomer. All the information you need is out there, but it is often fragmented across numerous stack overflow threads...
For quite a while we have been teaching estimating variable re-encodings on the exact same data they are later naively using to train a model on, leads to an undesirable nested model bias. The vtreat package (both the R version and Python version) both incorporate a cross-frame method that allows one to use all the … Continue reading New...
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Here is a call for a research fellow at the University of Warwick to work with Adam Johansen and Théo Damoulas on the EPSRC and Lloyds Register Foundaton funded project “Robust Scalable Sequential Monte Carlo with application to Urban Air Quality”. To quote The position will be based primarily at the Department of Statistics of
Just like how Thanos claimed to be inevitable in The Avengers, the direct or indirect use of python has become inevitable for R users in recent years. Fret not R users, you don’t have to abandon your favourite IDE, Rstudio, when using python. With the reticulate package you can use python in Rstudio and even have a mixture of...
Recently there has been a couple of meta-analyses investigating heterogeneous treatment effects by analyzing the ratio of the outcome variances in the treatment and control group. The argument made in these articles is that if individuals differ in their response, then observed variances in the treatment and control group in RCTs should differ. For instance, Winkelbeiner et al. (2019)...
FOAAS, having been resting upstream for some time, released version 2.1.0 of its wonderful service this week! So without too much further ado we went to work and added support for it. And now we are in fact thrilled to announce that release 2.1.0 of...
I’m excited to announce that heatmaply version 1.0.0 has been published to CRAN! (getting started vignette is available here) What is heatmaply? heatmaply is an R package for easily creating interactive cluster heatmaps that can be shared online as a stand-alone HTML file. Interactivity includes a tooltip display of values when hovering over cells, as … Continue reading "heatmaply...
The small new package glueformula with a single function gf facilitates constructing regression formulas from vectors with variable names. The syntax is similar to glue strings. Here is an example: # Example: build a formula # for ivreg with gf libra...
Revisiting the river flow profile plot from an earlier post, the video below loops each day's flow profile for the Delaware River in 2019. Data is from USGS gages processed using R and Windows Live Movie Maker.
Like me, if you like traveling as much as R you might want to draw a world map of the countries you have visited in R. Below an example with the countries I have visited as of January 2020: To draw this map in R, you will need the following packages: library(highcharter) library(dplyr) library(maps) As usual, you need the packages to be installed on...
Nonlinear regression plays an important role in my research and teaching activities. While I often use the ‘drm()’ function in the ‘drc’ package for my research work, I tend to prefer the ‘nls()’ function for teaching purposes, mainly because, in my opinion, the transition from linear models to nonlinear models is smoother, for beginners. One problem with ‘nls()’ is...
The BH 1.72.0-1 release of BH required one update 1.72.0-2 when I botched a hand-edited path (to comply with the old-school path-length-inside-tar limit). Turns out another issue needed a fix. This release improved on prior ones by starting from a p...
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