R-bloggers - Part 45

BI and Open Source Data Science: Strengths and Challenges

March 10, 2021 | Lou Bajuk

Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash In our first post in this series, we started examining a critical aspect of interoperability: the intersection between Business Intelligence (BI) and data science platforms. The two approaches share a common goal: delivering rich interactive applications and dashboards that can be shared with others ... [Read more...]

Time to get your Shiny on, Shiny Contest 2021 is here!

March 10, 2021 | Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

We’re excited to announce Shiny Contest 2021! This marks the third year of the Shiny contest, and over the past two years we have been in awe of all of your submissions and we are very much looking forward to seeing what the Shiny commun...

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torch time series continued: A first go at multi-step prediction

March 10, 2021 | Sigrid Keydana

We pick up where the first post in this series left us: confronting the task of multi-step time-series forecasting. Our first attempt was a workaround of sorts. The model had been trained to deliver a single prediction, corresponding to the very nex...

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Teams support in Microsoft365R

March 10, 2021 | Hong Ooi

by Hong Ooi I’m happy to announce that version 2.0 of Microsoft365R, the R interface to Microsoft 365, is now on CRAN! This version adds support for Microsoft Teams, a much-requested feature. To access a team in Microsoft Teams, use the get_team() fun... [Read more...]

Teams support in Microsoft365R

March 10, 2021 | Hong Ooi

by Hong Ooi I’m happy to announce that version 2.0 of Microsoft365R, the R interface to Microsoft 365, is now on CRAN! This version adds support for Microsoft Teams, a much-requested feature. To access a team in Microsoft Teams, use the get_team() fun... [Read more...]

NHSDataDictionaRy package has arrived on CRAN

March 10, 2021 | Gary Hutson

Thanks to the NHS-R community I have had time to work on another package, due to their pledge to get more packages in R funded. A big thanks to Mohammed Amin Mohammed and all the R community team. This package utilises all the excellent lookups provided by NHS Digital and ...

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Hiring a data analyst

March 10, 2021 | Oscar

In late 2020 I was hiring for a data analyst role. We were looking for someone with domain expertise, R and some SQL if possible. That alone is a long wishlist ;). Originally this post started as a twitter thread which you can find a link to at the end. These … The ...

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XLConnect on Mirai Techguides

March 10, 2021 | Mirai Solutions

New XLConnect technical chapter in our open-source techguides. XLConnect is a well established R package that enables an easy interface to Microsoft Excel. At Mirai, we have R specialists working in the financial services industry, where it is pr... [Read more...]

Why R? Foundation 2021-03-10 03:25:45

March 10, 2021 | Why R? Foundation

On Thursday, March 18th at 7 pm UTC | 8 pm CET, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we have the honour to host David Gohel, from the Founder of ArData author of R packages, such ... [Read more...]

Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

March 9, 2021 | R | msperlin

In the 18th of march 2021 I’ll complete exactly ten years since finishing my PhD and taking a professorship position at UFRGS, south of Brazil. In this post I’ll write about what I learned during this period and, hopefully, help other academics tha... [Read more...]

Higher Order Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation

March 9, 2021 | YoungStatS

Summary We propose a higher order targeted maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) that only relies on a sequentially and recursively defined set of data-adaptive fluctuations. Without the need to assume the often too stringent higher order pathwise d...

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Compositional scalar-on-function regression as a tool (not only) for geological data

March 9, 2021 | YoungStatS

Compositional data are characterized by the fact that the relevant information is contained not necessarily in the absolute values but rather in the relative proportions between particular components. As an example, take household expenditures for ...

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RStudio Professional Drivers 1.7.0

March 9, 2021 | Ricardo Andrade and Nathan Stephens

Data security is a strategic imperative in most organizations. In a world where data is under constant threat of malicious attacks, the security of your data pipeline is critical. One of the easiest ways to keep your data secure is by appl... [Read more...]

Considerations for the pattern-based spatial analysis

March 9, 2021 | Rstats on Jakub Nowosad's website

TLTR: This is a last blog post in a series about motif - an R package aimed for pattern-based spatial analysis. It sums up previous posts, but also underlines potential considerations when working with spatial patterns. Finally, it lists underexplored...

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Cheat Sheets

March 9, 2021 | R Views

In a previous post, I described how I was captivated by the virtual landscape imagined by the RStudio education team while looking for resources on the RStudio website. In this post, I’ll take a look at Cheatsheets another amazing resource hiding in plain sight. Apparently, some time ago when ...

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Ten years as a professor — six advices to young academics

March 9, 2021 | R | msperlin

In the 18th of march 2021 I’ll complete exactly ten years since finishing my PhD and taking a professorship position at UFRGS, south of Brazil. In this post I’ll write about what I learned during this period and, hopefuly, help other academics that... [Read more...]

Introductory time series forecasting with torch

March 9, 2021 | Sigrid Keydana

This is the first post in a series introducing time-series forecasting with torch. It does assume some prior experience with torch and/or deep learning. But as far as time series are concerned, it starts right from the beginning, using recurrent neural networks (GRU or LSTM) to predict how something ...

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A function to speed up and simplify writing to SQL Server databases in R

March 9, 2021 | Gary Hutson

I had a recent enquiry on our NHS-R community slack channel about which package is best to work with larger datasets, such as 5 million plus records, with high dimensionality. I got to thinking that the DBI and odbc packages would be best for this purpose, as this is still not ...

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Building a Model in R to Predict FPL Points

March 9, 2021 | Part Time Analyst

Fantasy premier league. That yearly ritual of thinking your team you spend hours agonising over whether to select this player or that player. I find you need to watch a lot of football to keep up with it so the challenge is how can I use data to shortcut this. ...

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EARL abstracts – closing soon

March 9, 2021 | Laura Swales

There is still time left for you to submit your abstract for the Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference.... The post EARL abstracts – closing soon appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]