Understanding gender roles in movies with text mining
I have a new visual essay up at The Pudding today, using text mining to explore how women are portrayed in film. The R code behind this analysis in publicly...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: August 2017
Tidyer BLS data with the blscarpeR package
The recent release of the blscrapeR package brings the “tidyverse” into the fold. Inspired by my recent collaboration with Kyle Walker on his excellent tidycensus package, blscrapeR has been optimized...continue reading.
Using regression trees for forecasting double-seasonal time series with trend in R
After blogging break caused by writing research papers, I managed to secure time to write something new about time series forecasting. This time I want to share with you my...continue reading.
Wrong on an Astronomical Scale
I recently posted an update regarding our R package revisit, aimed at partially remedying the reproducibility crisis, both in the sense of (a) providing transparency to data analyses and (b)...continue reading.
DART: Dropout Regularization in Boosting Ensembles
The dropout approach developed by Hinton has been widely employed in deep learnings to prevent the deep neural network from overfitting, as shown in https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/dropout-regularization-in-deep-neural-networks. In the paper http://proceedings.mlr.press/v38/korlakaivinayak15.pdf, the...continue reading.
Model Operational Losses with Copula Regression
In the previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/model-operational-loss-directly-with-tweedie-glm), it has been explained why we should consider modeling operational losses for non-material UoMs directly with Tweedie models. However, for material UoMs with significant losses,...continue reading.
simplyR
simplyR is a web space where we’ll be posting practical and easy guides for solving real important problems using R programming language. As we aren’t fans of unnecessary complications, we’ll...continue reading.
Zillow Rent Analysis
Hello Readers, This is a notification post – Did you realize our website has moved? The blog is live at New JA Blog under the domain http://www.journeyofanalytics.com . You can...continue reading.
RStudio Server Pro is ready for BigQuery on the Google Cloud Platform
RStudio is excited to announce the availability of RStudio Server Pro on the Google Cloud Platform. RStudio Server Pro GCP is identical to RStudio Server Pro, but with additional convenience...continue reading.
I made a 3D movie with ggplot2 once – here’s how I did it
Some time ago (last year actually 😳) I had a blast developing a feature for ggforce which had been on my mind for far to long than its limited utility...continue reading.
RInno
An open-source project that aims to fascilitate deployment of R Shiny projects. I helped to build coding infrastructure that integrates the flexdashboard framework. The following is the summary found on...continue reading.
Simpson’s Rule for Approximating Definite Integrals in R
Simpson’s rule is another closed Newton-Cotes formula for approximating integrals over an interval with equally spaced nodes. Unlike the trapezoidal rule, which employs straight lines to approximate a definite integral,…...continue reading.
Update on Our ‘revisit’ Package
On May 31, I made a post here about our R package revisit, which is designed to help remedy the reproducibility crisis in science. The intended user audience includes reviewers...continue reading.
TensorFlow v1.3 Released
The final release of TensorFlow v1.3 is now available. This release marks the initial availability of several canned estimators including DNNClassifier and DNNRegressor.continue reading.
tidyr 0.7.0
We are happy to announce that tidyr 0.7.0 is now available on CRAN. There are two big changes: tidyr now supports tidy evaluation (or tidy eval for short). You can...continue reading.
TensorFlow v1.3 Released
The final release of TensorFlow v1.3 is now available. This release marks the initial availability of several canned estimators including DNNClassifier and DNNRegressor.continue reading.
MODIStsp 1.3.3 is out – Speeding things up and squashing some bugs !
A new version of MODIStsp (1.3.3) is on CRAN as of today ! Below, you can find a short description of the main improvements.Processing speed improvements Processing of MODIS...continue reading.
RStudio 1.1 Preview – Data Connections
Today, we’re continuing our blog series on new features in RStudio 1.1. If you’d like to try these features out for yourself, you can download a preview release of RStudio...continue reading.
Working With SEM Keywords in R
The following post was republished from two previous posts that were on an older blog of mine that is no longer available. These are from several years ago, and related to...continue reading.
