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The Data-Driven Weekly #1.6
By Brian Lee Yung Rowe Right on cue, this past week heralded in an announcement of OpenAI, a new non-profit started by a number of tech luminaries to spearhead AI research that is publicly accessible....
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RTutor: Public Procurement Auctions: Design, Outcomes and Adaption Costs
By Economics and R – R posts As an economist, I consider public procurement of construction projects a very interesting topic. While several firms may initially bid for a project and propose prices,...
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Anomaly Detection in R
By Pablo C. Introduction Inspired by this Netflix post, I decided to write a post based on this topic using R. There are several nice packages to achieve this goal, the one we´re going to review is...
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Le Monde puzzle [#939bis]
By xi’an If you remember the previous post, I had two interpretations about Le Monde mathematical puzzle #639: Find all integers with less than 11 digits that are perfect squares and can be written as...
View ArticleTutorial: Data Science with SQL Server R Services
By David Smith You may have heard that R and the big-data RevoScaleR package have been integrated with with SQL Server 2016 as SQL Server R Services. If you’ve been wanting to try out R with SQL Server...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Smart Charger
By David Smith Did you know that the charger for a modern MacBook has about as much computing power as the original Macintosh computer? That’s one surprising lesson from this teardown of an Apple...
View ArticleBuzzfeed uses R for Data Journalism
By David Smith Buzzfeed isn’t just listicles and cat videos these days. Science journalist Peter Aldhous recently joined Buzzfeed’s editorial team, after stints at Nature, Science and New Scientist...
View ArticleBuzzfeed uses R for Data Journalism
By David Smith Buzzfeed isn’t just listicles and cat videos these days. Science journalist Peter Aldhous recently joined Buzzfeed’s editorial team, after stints at Nature, Science and New Scientist...
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BayesiaLab-Like Network Graphs for Free with R
By Joel Cadwell My screen has been filled with ads from BayesiaLab since I downloaded their free book. Just as I began to have regrets, I received an email invitation to try out their demo datasets. I...
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My Poster at Rocky 2015: Estimating parameters of the Hodgkin-Huxley cardiac...
By BioStatMatt I’m recently returned from the 2015 Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, where I presented the above poster. This is work with a colleague, Rick Gray, at the FDA. He and I...
View ArticleA use of gsub, reshape2 and sqldf with healthcare data
By Divya Parmar Building off other industry-specific posts, I want to use healthcare data to demonstrate the use of R packages. The data can be downloaded here. To read the .CSV file in R you might...
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Integrating Python and R Part III: An Extended Example
By Mango Blogger By Chris Musselle This is the third post in a three part series where I have explored the options available for including both R and Python in a data analysis pipeline. See post one...
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IBM DataScientistWorkBench = OpenRefine + RStudio + Jupyter Notebooks in the...
By Tony Hirst One of the many things on my “to do” list is to put together a blogged script that wires together RStudio, Jupyter notebook server, Shiny server, OpenRefine, PostgreSQL and MongDB...
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6 benefits of learning Tableau (a BI tool for interactive visualization)
By Tal Galili Guest post by Kirill Eremenko Source: www.tableau.com I teach Tableau through Udemy, and would like to offer you the following six points to help you decide if Tableau is a tool you...
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Marathon Races Shiny App
By jlebeau About a year ago I posted about men’s and women’s marathon (and longer) distance races from the Arrs.net dataset. In the meantime, Shiny development and the open source announcement of...
View ArticleCraig Venter’s first chromosome
By Isomorphismes is, I think, the one you can find at sacred-texts.org. curl -O 'http://www.sacred-texts.com/dna/hgp011k.htm' #get it #BORING DATA JANITORSHIP tail -n +15 hgp011k.htm > hgp011k...
View ArticleCraig Venter’s first chromosome
By Isomorphismes is, I think, the one you can find at sacred-texts.org. curl -O 'http://www.sacred-texts.com/dna/hgp011k.htm' #get it #BORING DATA JANITORSHIP tail -n +15 hgp011k.htm > hgp011k...
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RcppTOML 0.0.5
By Thinking inside the box After a short hiatus, a new version of the (wonderfully useful, if I dare say so RcppTOML package is now on CRAN. RcppTOML lets R read the (absolutely awesome) TOML...
View Articleggplot 2.0.0
By hadleywickham I’m very pleased to announce the release of ggplot2 2.0.0. I know I promised that there wouldn’t be any more updates, but while working on the 2nd edition of the ggplot2 book, I just...
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Online R courses at Udemy – for only $15 (“Christmas deal”)
By Tal Galili tl;dr: $15 Christmas deal at Udemy – (until the 24th) For the next 3 days (until 12/24/2015 , 6:00am PST), Udemy is offering readers of R-bloggers access to its global online learning...
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