SQL Server 2016 launch showcases R
By David Smith Microsoft officially launched SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event in New York City last week, and R featured prominently. One of the highlights from Joseph Sirosh’s keynote was a...
View ArticleSpinning Cycles in Box #4 To Take the Pies out of Pi Day
By hrbrmstr library(ggplot2) library(grid) library(scales) library(hrbrmisc) # devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/hrbrmisc") library(tidyr) dat read.table(text=...
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Margin of Error by Geography in the American Community Survey (ACS)
By Ari Lamstein Today I will demonstrate how the margin of error in American Community Survey (ACS) estimates grow as the size of the geography decreases. The final chart that we’ll create is this: The...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Server Now Available in the Cloud on Azure Marketplace
By Richard Kittler by Richard Kittler, Microsoft R Server PM, Microsoft Advanced Analytics In January, Microsoft announced the re-branding of Revolution R Enterprise as Microsoft R Server, and the...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Server Now Available in the Cloud on Azure Marketplace
By Richard Kittler by Richard Kittler, Microsoft R Server PM, Microsoft Advanced Analytics In January, Microsoft announced the re-branding of Revolution R Enterprise as Microsoft R Server, and the...
View Articlex13binary 0.1.2
By Thinking inside the box A new version of x13binary is now on CRAN. It updates the underlying X-13ARIMA-SEATS binary to build 1.1.26 which was released recently by the US Census Bureau. Our x13binary...
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Adding a subtitle to ggplot2
By Martin Monkman A couple of days ago (2016-03-12) a short blog post by Bob Rudis appeared on R-bloggers.com, “Subtitles in ggplot2″. I was intrigued by the idea and what this could mean for my own...
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SQL Server 2016 launch showcases R
By David Smith Microsoft officially launched SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event in New York City last week, and R featured prominently. One of the highlights from Joseph Sirosh’s keynote was a...
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Call for Abstracts – EARL 2016 great package available.
By Angela Roberts Following on from the success of the previous London EARL (Effective Applications of the R Language) Conference plans are well underway for this years EARL on September 13-15th 2016....
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RWebData V. 0.1 on Bitbucket: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
By Ulrich Matter I am happy to announce the first release of the R-package RWebData on Bitbucket. The main aim of the package is to provide high-level functions that facilitate the access and...
View ArticleWebinar and free e-book on data preparation with R
By David Smith Just a quick heads up that Nina Zumel, co-founder and principal consultant at Win-Vector LLC will be presenting a webinar at 10AM Pacific Time on Thursday March 17, Data Preparation...
View ArticleAnalyzing Golden State Warriors’ passing network using GraphFrames in Spark
By Yuki Katoh Databricks recently announced GraphFrames, awesome Spark extension to implement graph processing using DataFrames.I performed graph analysis and visualized beautiful ball movement network...
View ArticleRblpapi 0.3.3
By Thinking inside the box A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. It provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid...
View ArticleWebinar and free e-book on data preparation with R
By David Smith Just a quick heads up that Nina Zumel, co-founder and principal consultant at Win-Vector LLC will be presenting a webinar at 10AM Pacific Time on Thursday March 17, Data Preparation...
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How to export Regression results from R to MS Word
By Klodian Dhana In this post I will present a simple way how to export your regression results (or output) from R into Microsoft Word. Previously, I have written a tutorial how to create Table 1 with...
View ArticleUpdated dplyrXdf package brings data munging with pipes to Xdf files
By Hong Ooi by Hong Ooi, Sr. Data Scientist, Microsoft I’m pleased to announce the release of version 0.62 of the dplyrXdf package, a backend to dplyr that allows the use of pipeline syntax with...
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Supreme Annotations
By hrbrmstr This is a follow up to a twitter-gist post & to the annotation party we’re having this week I had not intended this to be “Annotation Week” but there was a large, positive response to...
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Le Monde puzzle [#952]
By xi’an A quite simple Le Monde mathematical puzzle again with Alice and Bob: In a multiple choice questionnaire with 50 questions, Alice gets a score s such that Bob can guess how many correct (+5...
View ArticleVariography with gstat and ggplot2
By Bart Rogiers Last year I wrote a short demo on variography with gstat and ggplot2 for a colleague who was planning to migrate to R. Just thought I’d share this here (with some additional stuff) as...
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More on preparing data
By John Mount The Microsoft Data Science User Group just sponsored Nina Zumel‘s presentation “Preparing Data for Analysis Using R”. Microsoft saw Win-Vector LLC‘s ODSC West 2015 presentation “Prepping...
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