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Register for Hadley Wickham’s Master R Developer Workshop – San Francisco
By Roger Oberg Are you ready to upgrade your R skills? Register soon to secure your seat. On January 28 and 29, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his popular Master R Developer Workshop at the Westin San...
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The Data-Driven Weekly #1.5
By Brian Lee Yung Rowe This week, we continue the parallel themes of deep learning and natural language processing. Last week I mentioned some papers that use deep learning for NLP. In deep learning,...
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Installing XGBoost on Ubuntu
By Andrew Collier XGBoost is the flavour of the moment for serious competitors on kaggle. It was developed by Tianqi Chen and provides a particularly efficient implementation of the Gradient Boosting...
View Articleasdfree 2015-12-09 04:28:00
By Anthony Damico obsessively-detailed instructions to analyze publicly-available survey data with free tools – the r language, the survey package, and (for big data) sqlsurvey + monetdb. governments...
View ArticleNew Course: Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr
By Ari Lamstein Today I am happy to announce that my new online course, Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr, is now available for preorder. The course is designed to teach you everything you need to start...
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svglite 1.0.0
By hadleywickham I’m pleased to announced a new package for producing SVGs from R: svglite. This package is a fork of Matthieu Decorde RSvgDevice and wouldn’t be possible without his hard work. I’d...
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Wald’s graphical sequential inspection procedure
By Joseph Rickert by John Mount Ph.D.Data Scientist at Win-Vector LLC Our most recent article was a dynamic programming solution to the A/B test problem. Explicitly solving such dynamic programs is a...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Hopper Jams
By David Smith I was surprised to find that just five of the small particles in the video below, if arranged in just the right way, can jam the hopper: Watch the coloured beads in the video as they...
View ArticleThe DDMoRe Interoperability Framework goes public!
By Mango Blogger The Drug Disease Model Resources (DDMoRe) Consortium has been created to improve the quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of Model-Informed Drug Discovery & Development. it...
View ArticlePractical Data Science with R examples
By John Mount One of the big points of Practical Data Science with R is to supply a large number of fully worked examples. Our intent has always been for readers to read the book, and if they wanted to...
View ArticlePractical Data Science with R examples
By John Mount One of the big points of Practical Data Science with R is to supply a large number of fully worked examples. Our intent has always been for readers to read the book, and if they wanted to...
View ArticleR 3.2.3 released
By David Smith Yesterday, the R Core Team released a new update to R (version 3.2.3, codenamed “Wooden Christmas Tree”), and the source distribution is now available for download on CRAN. Binary...
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Weekly R-Tips: Importing Packages and User Inputs
By atmathew Number 1: Importing Multiple Packages Anyone who has used R for some time has written code that required the use of multiple packages. In most cases, this will be done by using the library...
View ArticleRStudio just keeps getting better
By Rob J Hyndman RStudio has been a life-changer for the way I work, and for how I teach data analysis. I still have a couple of minor frustrations with it, but they are slowly disappearing as RStudio...
View ArticleSolve common R problems efficiently with data.table
By Jan Górecki – R I was recently browsing stackoverflow.com (often called SO) for the most voted questions under R tag.To my surprise, many questions on the first page were quite well addressed with...
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Vacancies in the Netherlands
By Wingfeet (This article was originally published at Wiekvoet, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Over the last couple of years, each weekend I have registering how many vacancies websites claim to have....
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Venezuelan Parliamentary Election: What do the Polls Say?
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) There is not a huge population of opinion polls covering this parliamentary election in Venezuela, but all...
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Venezuela’s 2015 Parliamentary Elections
By Daniel (This article was originally published at Daniel, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Next Sunday Venezuelans are heading to the polls once again with international concerns about the clearness of...
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Maintaining a database of price files in R
By The R Trader (This article was originally published at The R Trader, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Doing quantitative research implies a lot of data crunching and one needs clean and reliable data...
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Vacancies in the Netherlands
By Wingfeet Over the last couple of years, each weekend I have registering how many vacancies websites claim to have. This post shows some of the observations one may draw from the plots. Data Data is...
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