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Using PostgresSQL in R: A quick how-to
By Joseph Rickert Nina Zumel, Ph.D. Win-Vector LLC The combination of R plus SQL offers an attractive way to work with what we call medium-scale data: data that’s perhaps too large to gracefully work...
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By hadleywickham Devtools 1.10.0 is now available on CRAN. Devtools makes package building so easy that a package can become your default way to organise code, data, documentation, and tests. You can...
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2015 in review and a preview of 2016
By DataCamp Blog DataCamp’s mission is to build the best online platform for data science education with a focus on R and Python. In this post, we share our journey during 2015 and our plans for 2016...
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Using Jupyter Notebooks to Define Literate APIs
By Tony Hirst Part of the vision behind the Jupyter notebook ecosystem seems to be the desire to create a literate computing infrastructure that supports “the weaving of a narrative directly into a...
View ArticleFirst Bayesian Mixer Meeting in London
By Markus Gesmann There is a nice pub between Bunhill Fields and the Royal Statistical Society in London: The Artillery Arms. Clearly, the perfect place to bring people together to talk about Bayesian...
View ArticleSentiment Analysis of Uganda Presidential Debate – Using R and Twitter data
By Daniel Emaasit Introduction to Digital democracy is here. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are providing inexpensive ways for individuals to engage on political issues, therefore...
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Commonmark: Super Fast Markdown Rendering in R
By Jeroen Ooms A few months ago I first announced the commonmark R package. Since then there have been a few more releases… time for an update! What is CommonMark? Markdown is used in many places these...
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Unemployment in Europe
By Wingfeet (This article was originally published at Wiekvoet, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) A couple of years I have made plots of unemployment and its change over the years. At first this was a...
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optimal simulation on a convex set
By xi’an This morning, we had a jam session at the maths department of Paris-Dauphine where a few researchers & colleagues of mine presented their field of research to the whole department. Very...
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optimal simulation on a convex set
By xi’an (This article was originally published at R – Xi’an’s Og, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) This morning, we had a jam session at the maths department of Paris-Dauphine where a few researchers...
View ArticleMapping the world’s longest plane fights
By David Smith If you’re one of those people that dreads long plane flights, Don’t be distracted by the curved trajectories: these are all straight-line (technically, “great circle”) routes,...
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When k-means Clustering Fails
By Jonathan Callahan Letting the computer automatically find groupings in data is incredibly powerful and is at the heart of “data mining” and “machine learning”. One of the most widely used methods...
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7 Ways to Perplex a Data Scientist
By Brian Lee Yung Rowe On the heels of a report showing the inefficacy of government-run cyber security, it’s imperative to understand the limitations of your system and model. As that article shows,...
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Devtools 1.10.0
By hadleywickham Devtools 1.10.0 is now available on CRAN. Devtools makes package building so easy that a package can become your default way to organise code, data, documentation, and tests. You can...
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Predicting wine quality using Random Forests
By Teja Kodali Hello everyone! In this article I will show you how to run the random forest algorithm in R. We will use the wine quality data set (white) from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. What...
View ArticleUsing Microsoft R Open with RStudio
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert A frequent question that we get here at Microsoft about MRO (Microsoft R Open) is: can be used with RStudio? The short answer is absolutely yes! In fact, more than...
View ArticleUsing Microsoft R Open with RStudio
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert A frequent question that we get here at Microsoft about MRO (Microsoft R Open) is: can be used with RStudio? The short answer is absolutely yes! In fact, more than...
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Simple Distributions for Mixtures?
By arthur charpentier The idea of GLMs is that given some covariates, has a distribution in the exponential family (Gaussian, Poisson, Gamma, etc). But that does not mean that has a similar...
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By David Smith If you’re one of those people that dreads long plane flights, this map by Matt Strimas-Mackey will help you find routes to avoid. It shows Wikipedia’s list of the top 30 scheduled...
View ArticleFlowing triangles
By Markus Gesmann (This article was originally published at mages’ blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) I have admired the work of the artist Bridget Riley for a long time. She is now in her eighties,...
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