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Baby Boomers
By Mango Blogger By Chris Campbell As another new baby card is passed around the office, and the latest cute baby pictures are emailed out, a discussion is underway. Could it be true? Something in the...
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The Data-Driven Weekly #1.7
By Brian Lee Yung Rowe Photo: Nathaniel Welch It turns out I’m not the only one who thinks AI alarmism is a bit out of hand. The ITIF Luddite Award nominations include “alarmists, even including...
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Set up Sublime Text for light-weight all-in-one data science IDE
By Yuki Katoh Sublime Text is a powerful text editor. Here I introduce how to add custom REPL config for remote/local R, Python, Scala, Spark, Hive, you name it (this is only tested for OS X).The...
View ArticleFraud Detection with R and Azure
By David Smith Detecting fraudulent transactions is a key applucation of statistical modeling, especially in an age of online transactions. R of course has many functions and packages suited to this...
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Modeling How Consumers Simplify the Purchase Process by Copying Others
By Joel Cadwell A Flower That Fits the Bill Marketing borrows the biological notion of coevolution to explain the progressive “fit” between products and consumers. While evolutionary time may seem a...
View ArticleR sucks
By andrew I’m doing an analysis and one of the objects I’m working on is a multidimensional array called “attitude.” I took a quick look: > dim(attitude) [1] 30 7 Huh? It’s not supposed to be 30 x...
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 ArticleStop fiddling around with copied paths in Windows R
By Sascha W. I work with R on both Mac OS and Windows. On Windows, you get the option to copy the path of a file or folder by holding Shift while right-clicking on the file or folder. As useful as this...
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One Solution to the ‘stringsAsFactors’-Problem Or: Hell-Yeah there is HELLNO
By Peter Meissner Base R’s stringsAsFactors default setting is supposedly the most often complained about piece of code in the whole R infrastructure. A search through the source code of all CRAN...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2016
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert The following map of all of the R user groups listed in Microsoft’s Local R User Group Directory is good way to visualize the R world as we rocket into 2016. As a...
View ArticleLooking forward to 2016
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert The following map of all of the R user groups listed in Microsoft’s Local R User Group Directory is good way to visualize the R world as we rocket into 2016. As a...
View Articlesimmer v3.1.1 released on CRAN
By FishyOperations Last week the latest version of simmer was released on CRAN: v3.1.1. This version allows adding attributes to arrivals (and basing decisions on their values). Also, the rollback...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: All I want for Christmas
By David Smith On this Christmas Day, allow me to share a couple of interesting takes on Mariah Carey’s modern Christmas classic, All I Want for Christmas is You. (Unlike most pop songs, Carey wrote...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: All I want for Christmas
By David Smith On this Christmas Day, allow me to share a couple of interesting takes on Mariah Carey’s modern Christmas classic, All I Want for Christmas is You. (Unlike most pop songs, Carey wrote...
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How to create a Twitter Sentiment Analysis using R and Shiny
By Diego Lescano Everytime you release a product or service you want to receive feedback from users so you know what they like and what they don’t. Sentiment Analysis can help you. I will show you how...
View ArticleNetwork charts of commuting in New Zealand with R and D3
By Peter’s stats stuff – R Commuting between districts and cities in New Zealand At this year’s New Zealand Statisticians Association conference I gave a talk on Modelled Territorial Authority Gross...
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Analyzing networks of characters in ‘Love Actually’
By David Robinson Every Christmas Eve, my family watches Love Actually. Objectively it’s not a particularly, er, good movie, but it’s well-suited for a holiday tradition. (Vox has got my back here)....
View ArticleR-Markdown and Knitr Tutorial (Part 2)
By Riddhiman In our last post we quickly went over how to create a new R-Markdown document and embed a Plotly graph in it. In this post we’ll get into more details around how to control code output...
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R-Markdown and Knitr Tutorial (Part 1)
By Riddhiman R-Markdown is a great way to create dynamic documents with embedded chunks of R code. The document is self contained and fully reproducible which makes it very easy to share. This post...
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Regression Diagnostic Plots using R and Plotly
By Riddhiman Plotly is a platform for making, editing, and sharing customizable and interactive graphs. Embedding Plotly graphs in a R-Markdown document is very easy. Here, we will genarate a...
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