Win-Vector video courses: price/status changes
By John Mount Win-Vector LLC has been offering a couple of online video courses on the topics of data science and A/B testing (both using R). These are high quality courses and well worth the money and...
View ArticleData Science Virtual Machine updated with Microsoft R Server
By David Smith Microsoft has updated the Data Science Virtual Machine, a data science toolkit-in-a-box that you can easily spin up on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. The virtual machine now comes...
View ArticleData Science Virtual Machine updated with Microsoft R Server
By David Smith Microsoft has updated the Data Science Virtual Machine, a data science toolkit-in-a-box that you can easily spin up on the Microsoft Azure cloud service. The virtual machine now comes...
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R projects at Google Summer of Code 2016
By Gergely Daróczi This is the 12th year Google offering grants to students living (almost) anywhere in the world for working on various open-source projects at the summer, and R was again selected as...
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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited
By tylerrinker Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow. Part I discussed the...
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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited
By tylerrinker (This article was originally published at TRinker’s R Blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about...
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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited
By tylerrinker Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow. Part I discussed the...
View ArticleWin-Vector video courses: price/status changes
By John Mount Win-Vector LLC has been offering a couple of online video courses on the topics of data science and A/B testing (both using R). These are high quality courses and well worth the money and...
View ArticleHow to Use R to Scrape Tweets: Super Tuesday 2016
By Kris Eberwein Super Tuesday 2016 has come and gone, we have most of the election results, but what were the American public saying on Twitter? The twitteR package for R allows you to scrape tweets...
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Semi-finished
By Gianluca Baio I’ve finally managed to have a reasonably functional release for SWSamp, my package for simulation-based sample size calculations, specifically (but not necessarily just!) for a...
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ggplot2 2.1.0
By hadleywickham I’m very pleased to announce the release of ggplot2 2.1.0, scales 0.4.0, and gtable 0.2.0. These are set of relatively minor updates that fix a whole bunch of little problems that...
View ArticleConfidence Intervals for Random Forests
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Random Forests, the “go to” classifier for many data scientists, is a fairly complex algorithm with many moving parts that introduces randomness at different levels....
View ArticleConfidence Intervals for Random Forests
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Random Forests, the “go to” classifier for many data scientists, is a fairly complex algorithm with many moving parts that introduces randomness at different levels....
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Upload shapefile to R Shiny app to extract leaflet map data
By Matt Leonawicz In this post I share an R Shiny app which uses the leaftlet package for interactive maps. This app differs from prior apps I’ve made featuring leaflet maps. First, it displays...
View ArticleSunbelt and EUSN workshops on using R and ‘igraph’ for SNA
By Michał I would like to (re)announce the workshop I will be giving on using R and ‘igraph’ for Social Network Analysis on the upcoming Sunbelt 2016 conference in Newport Beach. My goal is to provide...
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An Analysis of the Flint Michigan Water Crisis: Part 1 Initial Corrosivity
By DSTribune Introduction As many have heard recently residents of Flint Michigan have been rightly outraged due to the high presence of toxic chemicals including lead in their drinking water. The...
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ggplot2 2.1.0
By hadleywickham I’m very pleased to announce the release of ggplot2 2.1.0, scales 0.4.0, and gtable 0.2.0. These are set of relatively minor updates that fix a whole bunch of little problems that...
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Where People Live
By arthur charpentier There was an interesting map on reddit this morning, with a visualisation of latitude and longituge of where people live, on Earth. So I tried to reproduce it. To compute the...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
By David Smith If you’ve ever wondered what the world will be like when the robots rebel at the abuse we’ve infliced upon them: then look no further than the YouTube channel of Simone Giertz. Her robot...
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Using Occam’s Razor to solve genius math puzzles
By Brian Lee Yung Rowe Math puzzles always tickle the brain, and this one has tickled quite a few on LinkedIn. Why are these puzzles so popular, and what’s the right answer? I sampled 610 responses to...
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