A tutorial showing how to highlight a subset of your data within the context of the full data set. We review the old school way (layering) and new school way (gghighlight).
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A tutorial showing how to highlight a subset of your data within the context of the full data set. We review the old school way (layering) and new school way (gghighlight).
The ANZ bank have a nice bit of publicity for themselves each month in New Zealand with the release of the results of their monthly Business Outlook Survey. This week it caused a bit of a stir, with the ANZ’s own commentary reporting New Zealand corporate sector is “in a funk” (ANZ’s words) with a net 45 percentage...
There are multiple add-on packages available in R to fit choice models in a Bayesian framework. These include bayesm, choiceModelR, and flipChoice. In this article,...
I was until recently subscribed to an email list, ALLSTAT, “A UK-based worldwide e-mail broadcast system for the statistical community, operated by ICSE for HEA Statistics.” created in 1998. That’s how I saw the ad for my previous job in Barcelona! Now, I dislike emails more and more so I unsubscribed, but I’d still check out the archives any...
rstudio::conf, the conference for all things R and RStudio, will take place January 17 and 18, 2019 (Thursday and Friday) in Austin, Texas. It will be preceded by Training Days on January 15 and 16 (Tuesday and Wednesday). Early Bird registration is now open! Conference: Thursday January 17 - Friday January 18, 2019 Join host and RStudio Chief Scientist Hadley Wickham...
Abstract: In 2007 Alexander Overwijk went viral with his 'Perfect Circle' video. The same year a World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship was organized, which he won. In this post we show how a mobile camera, R and the imager package can be used to develop an image analysis based method to judge future instances of the championship. This work is...
debugr is a new package designed to support debugging in R. It mainly provides the dwatch() function which prints a debug output to the console or to a file. A debug output can consist of a static text message, the values of one or more objects (p...
Having recently shared my post about defensive programming in R on the r/rstats subreddit, I was blown away by the sheer number of comments as much as I was blown away by the insight many displayed. One particular comment by u/guepier struck my attention. In my previous post, I came out quite vehemently against using theRead more The post Assignment in...
One of the great additions to the R ecosystem in recent years is RStudio's Shiny package. With it, you can easily whip up and share a user interface for a new statistical method in just a few hours. Today I want to share some of the methods and challenges that come up when the actual
There are more than 12,000 packages for R available on CRAN, and many others available on Github and elsewhere. But how can you be sure that a given R package follows best development practices for high-quality, secure software? Based on a recent survey of R users related to challenges in selecting R packages, the R Consortium now recommends a...
Today I am happy to announce that my proposal to the R Consortium was accepted! I first announced that I was submitting a proposal back... The post R Consortium Proposal Accepted! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.
tl;dr Rj Editor lets you analyse data in jamovi with R, and make use of your favourite R packages from within the jamovi statistical spreadsheet jmvconnect makes it easy to access jamovi data sets from R
Comparing multiple models is one of the core but also one of the trickiest element of data analysis. Under a Bayesian framework the loo package in R allows you to derive (among other things) leave-one-out cross-validation metrics to compare the predictive abilities of different models. Cross-validation is basically: (i) separating the data into chunks, (ii) Related PostAutomated Text Feature...
The American Birder For the millions of bird watchers in America, relevant and useful resources are always a welcome sight. Range maps and ecological histories enhance the bird watching experience by adding a layer of conservation awareness and help hobbyists become more acquainted with the birds they observe. As a birder myself, I am always
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. Version 0.6-12 is primarily a maintenance release with various bug fixes. Changes include: a fix for the bootstrap particle filter to correctly calculate weights when particles are not resampled (the filter had been omitting the previous weights when calculating the new weights);
A follow-up on Thomas Lumley follow-up post on Miles McBain post about quotation. In this post, Thomas is continuing Miles exploration of the concept of quoting and evaluation in R. Thomas speaks a little bit about lazy evaluation, and I decided to continue to explore this concept. Notably I wish to start over from on this quote from the...
We queried more than 60 people who have taken the USGS Introduction to R class over the last two years to understand what other skills and techniques are desired, but not covered in the course. Though many people have asked for an intermediate level class, we believe that many of the skills could be best taught through existing online...
Have you ever been wine shopping and wondered if the ratings actually mean anything? Do only high-priced wines get good reviews? This analysis attempts to demystify some of the confusion behind these ratings by examining a wide range of wines reviewed by a popular wine publication and showing ways to choose a wine based
Another small maintenance release of the RcppCNPy package arrived on CRAN a few minutes ago. RcppCNPy provides R with read and write access to NumPy files thanks to the cnpy library by Carl Rogers. I updated and refreshed the vignettes, and also ment...
The co-integration is an important statistical concept behind the statistical arbitrage strategy named “Pairs Trading”. While projecting a stock price with time series models is by all means difficult, it is technically feasible to find a pair of (or even a portfolio of) stocks sharing the common trend such that a linear combination of two
Project background Land Registry publishes data for each housing sale transaction that is registered in England & Wales. This data has been used extensively for many analysis, from price evolution in time to the assessment of price differences between areas. This dataset is publicly available under the government licence and dates back to 1995. The main
Recently, the R-consortium accepted a new project called histoRicalg. The main goal of the project is to document and transfer knowledge of some older algorithms used by R and by other computational systems. There is a lot of R written in Fortran—much of which is in the old F77 format—and in C whose original implementations Read the full article... The...
After reading this interesting analysis of “How Often Are Americans’ Accounts Breached?” by Gaurav Sood (which we need more of in cyber-land) I gave in to the impulse to do some gg-doodling with the “Have I Been Pwnd” JSON data he used. It’s just some basic data manipulation with some heavy ggplot2 styling customization, so... Continue reading →
In an earlier post, I focused on an in-depth visit with CHAID (Chi-square automatic interaction detection). Quoting myself, I said “As the name implies it is fundamentally based on the venerable Chi-square test – and while not the most powerful (in terms of detecting the smallest possible differences) or the fastest, it really is easy Related PostCommon Mistakes to...
Statistics Sunday: Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency As a mixed methods researcher, I love working with qualitative data, but I also love the idea of using quantitative methods to add some meaning and context to the words. This is the main reason I've started digging into using R for text mining, and these skills have paid off...
Why forecast sales? Humans have the magical ability to plan for future events, for future gain. It’s not quite a uniquely human trait. Because apparently ravens can match a 4-year-old. An abundance of data, and some very nice R packages, make our ability to plan all the more powerful. A couple of months ago we looked … Continue reading "But...
Approximately 144 new packages stuck to CRAN in June. That fact that 31 of these are specialized to particular scientific disciplines or analyses provides some evidence to my hypothesis that working scientists are actively adopting R. Below are my Top 40 picks for June, organized into the categories of Computational Methods, Data, Data Science, Economics, Science, Statistics, Time Series,...
By Gabriel Vasconcelos In this previous post I discussed some of the parameters we have to tune to estimate a boosting model using the xgboost package. In this post I will discuss the two parameters that were left out in … Continue reading →
