Analyzing “Twitter faces” in R with Microsoft Project Oxford
By Longhow Lam Introduction In my previous blog post I used the Microsoft Translator API in my BonAppetit Shiny app to recommend restaurants to tourists. I’m getting a little bit addicted to the...
View ArticleR ahp package on github
By gluc AHP lets you analyse complex decision making problems. We have recently released the initial version of the R ahp package on github: gluc/ahp. What is AHP? The Analytic Hierarchy Process is a...
View ArticleThe Generalized Method of Moments and the gmm package
By matloff An almost-as-famous alternative to the famous Maximum Likelihood Estimation is the Method of Moments. MM has always been a favorite of mine because it often requires fewer distributional...
View Article2015-07 Recording and Replaying the Graphics Engine Display List
By pmur002 In the development version of R (to be R 3.3.0), it is possible again to save the result of recordPlot() from one R session and then load it and replay it, with replayPlot(), in a different...
View ArticlePrediction Intervals for Poisson Regression
By statcompute Different from the confidence interval that is to address the uncertainty related to the conditional mean, the prediction interval is to accommodate the additional uncertainty associated...
View ArticleHas there been a ‘pause’ in global warming?
By Radford Neal As I discussed in my previous post, records of global temperatures over the last few decades figure prominently in the debate over the climate effects of CO2 emitted by burning fossil...
View ArticleR is the fastest-growing language on StackOverflow
By David Smith StackOverview is a popular Q&A site, and a go-to resource for developers of all languages to find answers to programming problems they may have: most of the time, the question has...
View ArticleR is the fastest-growing language on StackOverflow
By David Smith StackOverview is a popular Q&A site, and a go-to resource for developers of all languages to find answers to programming problems they may have: most of the time, the question has...
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...
View ArticleTime series analysis with R: Testing stuff with NetAtmo data
By Sascha W. I’ve got a NetAtmo weather station. One can download the measurements from its web interface as a CSV file. I wanted to give time series analysis with the extraction of seasonal components...
View ArticleMy Poster at Rocky 2015: Estimating parameters of the Hodgkin-Huxley cardiac...
By BioStatMatt (This article was originally published at statistics – BioStatMatt, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) I’m recently returned from the 2015 Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, where I...
View ArticleR and Python: Gradient Descent
By Al-Ahmadgaid Asaad One of the problems often dealt in Statistics is minimization of the objective function. And contrary to the linear models, there is no analytical solution for models that are...
View ArticleR and Python: Gradient Descent
By Al-Ahmadgaid Asaad (This article was originally published at Analysis with Programming, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) One of the problems often dealt in Statistics is minimization of the objective...
View ArticleUsing the WikiPathways API in R
By Egon Willighagen Colored pathways created withthe new R package. Earlier this week there was a question on the WikiPathways mailing list about the webservices. There are older SOAP webservices and...
View ArticleGender Effect in Conference Talks
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) I was searching in the arXiv repository for an interesting paper to read over the weekend, when I found this:...
View ArticleAll I want for Christmas is you big data analytics!
By Mango Blogger By Hannah Evans Sound familiar? All businesses have data. But whether it is used to drive business value is another question entirely. Traditionally, technical analysts have made...
View ArticleUpdate to metricsgraphics 0.9.0 (now on CRAN)
By hrbrmstr It’s been a while since I’ve updated my metricsgraphics package. The hit list for changes includes: Fixes for the new ggplot2 release (metricsgraphics uses the movies data set which is now...
View ArticleEmbedding images in R package help pages
By Andrie de Vries by Andrie de Vries Have you noticed that most R help does not contain any images? Historically, this was for a good reason: most programming language help assumes that you use the...
View ArticleShiny https: Securing Shiny Open Source with SSL
By gluc As described in my Shiny overview post, there are different versions of Shiny server. Among other limitations, the open source flavor does not come with built-in support for https and user...
View Article6 Machine Learning Visualizations made in Python and R
By modern.data These 6 visualizations were created in Plotly between 2014 and 2016 and are in some way related to machine learning. They were created using Plotly’s free and open-source graphing...
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