Batch Forecasting in R
By atmathew Given a data frame with multiple columns which contain time series data, let’s say that we are interested in executing an automatic forecasting algorithm on a number of columns....
View ArticleMy Baby Boomer Name Might Have Been “Debbie”
By Julia Silge I have always loved learning and thinking about names, how they are chosen and used, and how people feel about their names and the names around them. We had a traditional baby name book...
View ArticleMapping Birds with Choroplethr
By Ari Lamstein The bird in question. But where does it live? Credit: Wikipedia. After releasing my course Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr last December I received an interesting email from Dr. Herb...
View ArticleMortality by Weekday and Age
By arthur charpentier A few days ago, I did mention on Twitter a nice graph, with Mortality by Weekday and Age https://t.co/LyzQ7nJABZ very interesting difference, young vs. old...
View ArticleToying with models: The Game of Life with selection
By mrtnj Conway’s Game of life is probably the most famous cellular automaton, consisting of a grid of cells developing according simple rules. Today, we’re going to add mutation and selection to the...
View Articlecovplot supports GRangesList
By R on Guangchuang Yu To answer the issue, I extend the covplot function to support viewing coverage of a list of GRanges objects or bed files. library(ChIPseeker) files By default, The coverage plot...
View ArticleFALSE: Clinton Funded by “Grassroots”
By Francis Smart Related R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: Data science, Big Data, R jobs, visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation),...
View ArticleAnalysing the movements of a cat
By Joseph Rickert by Verena Haunschmid Since I have a cat tracker, I wanted to do some analysis of the behavior of my cats. I have shown how to do some of these things here. Data Collection The data...
View ArticleA Gadget for tidyr
By Mango Blogger By Aimee Gott About a month ago I wrote a review of the Shiny Developer Conference and I mentioned Shiny Gadgets, my new favourite thing in R. Over the last month I have played about...
View ArticleReading and writing proofs
By John Mount Uwe Kils “Iceberg” In this article I am attempting to reproduce some fraction of the insight found in: In my recent article on optimizing set diversity I mentioned the primary abstraction...
View ArticleGet-your-stuff-in-order exercises
By r-exercises In the exercises below we cover the basics of ordering vectors, matrices and data frames. We consider both column-wise and row-wise ordering, single and multiple variables, ascending and...
View ArticleR Crash Course, Data Science for Actuaries, Year 2
By arthur charpentier This Monday, we will start the second year of the Actuary: Data Science (ADS) program, supported by the (French) Institute of Actuaries. I will be there on monday morning for the...
View ArticleNotes from the Kölner R meeting, 26 February 2016
By Markus Gesmann Last Friday the Cologne R user group came together for the 17th time. This time we were in for a special treatment, with two talks by psychologists! But, there was nothing to fear, we...
View ArticleNairobi Data Science Meetup: Paradigm Shift in Research with Samuel Kamande
By Douglas Kingori Samuel Kamande is a Data Scientist at Nielsen and his presentation will focus on “Paradigm Shift in Research”.We caught up with him and he shared a lot about his work at Nielsen,...
View ArticleInnumeracy, Statistics and R
By matloff A couple of years ago, when an NPR journalist was interviewing me, the conversation turned to quantitative matters. The reporter said, only half jokingly, “We journalists are innumerate and...
View ArticleRcppEigen 0.3.2.8.1
By Thinking inside the box A good week after the update to Eigen 3.2.8 in our RcppEigen package 0.3.2.8.0, we have another (local) update with RcppEigen 0.3.2.8.1 which should fix another UBSAN issue....
View ArticleEight Advantages of Python Over Matlab
By Riddhiman The original post is here. Dr. Phillip Feldman has kindly agreed to let us repost his thoughts on some key differences between Matlab and Python. Python code tends to be more compact and...
View Article50% Draft of Forthcoming Book Available
By matloff As I’ve mentioned here a couple of times, I am in the midst of writing a book, From Linear Models to Machine Learning: Regression and Classification, with Examples in R. As has been my...
View ArticleLearn R from the Ground Up
By Hamza Arab R is an open source programming language which is made from the dialect of S. R programming is very power when dealing with Data Manipulation and Statistical Modelling. R is widely used...
View ArticleAnalysing the movements of a cat
By Joseph Rickert by Verena Haunschmid Since I have a cat tracker, I wanted to do some analysis of the behavior of my cats. I have shown how to do some of these things here. Data Collection The data...
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