The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-) … Read more
Summary Are you a data scientist who only wants to focus on modelling and coding and not on setting up a GPU cluster? Then, this blog might be interesting for … Read more
A new version of pdftools has been released to CRAN. Go get it while it’s hot: install.packages(“pdftools”) This version has two major improvements: low level text extraction and encoding improvements. … Read more
The Beta-Binomial model is the “hello world” of Bayesian statistics. That is, it’s the first model you get to run, often before you even know what you are doing. There … Read more
Pipelines in R are popular, the most popular one being magrittr as used by dplyr. This note will discuss the advanced re-usable piping systems: rquery/rqdatatable operator trees and wrapr function … Read more
As referenced in my last blog post, useR Delhi NCR is all set to host our second meetup on 15th December, i.e. upcoming Saturday. We’ve finalized two exciting speaker sessions … Read more
The post Gold-Mining Week 15 (2018) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. Related R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: Data science, Big … Read more
Since about two weeks, I face a large additional traffic jam every morning due to a construction site on the road. When passing the construction site, often only few people … Read more
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive … Read more
For each NBA game, nba.com has a really nice graphic which tracks the point differential between the two teams throughout the game. Here is the lead tracker graphic for the … Read more
Today we will continue our work on Fama French factor models, but more as a vehicle to explore some of the awesome stuff happening in the world of tidy models. … Read more
Are multiple births on the increase? My twin boys turned 5 years old today. Wow, time flies. Life is never dull, because twins are still seen as something of a … Read more
So, after having held workshops introducing Bayes for a couple of years now, I finally pulled myself together and completed my DataCamp course: Fundamentals of Bayesian Data Analysis in R! … Read more
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction will begin shipping next week. I’ve written an R package that contains datasets, functions, and a course packet to go along with the book. The … Read more
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive … Read more
Motivation for Project Around the time that I was selecting a topic for this project, my parents and my hometown found themselves in the path of a Category 1 hurricane. … Read more
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I have several tables that I would like to load as a sole data frame. Derived functions from read. table () have a lot of convenient features, but it seems … Read more
I spoke yesterday about using ggplot2 for functional data graphics, rather than the custom-built plotting functionality available in the many functional data packages, including my own rainbow package written with … Read more
This is the third post of a series on the concept of “network centrality” withapplications in R and the package netrankr. The last part introduced the concept ofneighborhood-inclusion and its … Read more
The code you find below can be used to recreate all figures and analyses from this book chapter. Because the content is exclusively for the book, my descriptions around the … Read more
I am extremely proud to announce that Geocomputation with R is complete.It took Robin, Jannes, and me almost 2 years of collaborative planning, writing, refinement, and deployment to make the … Read more
Reusable modeling pipelines are a practical idea that gets re-developed many times in many contexts. wrapr supplies a particularly powerful pipeline notation, and a pipe-stage re-use system (notes here). We … Read more
A new Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Find the largest number such that each of its internal digits is strictly less than the average of its two … Read more
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive … Read more
As a follow-up of my previous study of Australian politicians on Twitter I’ve decided to build a more sophisticated, autonomous solution. The idea at glance: Collect regularly tweets from Members … Read more
We’ll be back with Season 2 early in 2019 and to keep you thinking, curious and data focused in between seasons, we’re having a DataFramed challenge. The winner will get … Read more
On December 9 2008, very nearly ten years ago, the first post on Revolutions was published. Way back then, this blog was part of a young startup called Revolution Computing, … Read more
The post 5½ Reasons to Ditch Spreadsheets for Data Science: Code is Poetry appeared first on The Lucid Manager. When I studied civil engineering some decades ago, we solved all … Read more
Previously in this series: I’ve recently been enjoying The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight, a wonderful book from 538’s Oliver Roeder. Many of the probability puzzles can be productively solved … Read more
Great post Yash! For those readers interested in getting data from the fitbit API using R I’ve documented the process here: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-gamification-of-fitbit-how-an-api-provided-the-next-level-of-training-eaf7b267af00 Related R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R … Read more
Y’all it may have taken me a little time, but I did listen. Thank you for your emails. Because of you, I have now updated my ggmap tutorial to address … Read more
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive … Read more