It’s not the heat, it’s the heat index
PERCEIVED TEMPERATURE Click to enlarge (We got a request for a Celsius version of this post and since we are a full service website we created one and put it...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: August 2018
How to capitalize on a priori contrasts in linear (mixed) models: A tutorial
We wrote a short tutorial on contast coding, covering the common contrast coding scenarios, among them: treatment, helmert, anova, sum, and sliding (successive differences) contrasts. The target audience is psychologists...continue reading.
“Where to bird” geostats in R
I just came across a nice little post on acquiring and visualizing geodata in R using the Max Planck Institute of Ornithology as an example. It’s by the rOpenSci guys....continue reading.
TokyoR #71
Last month, I was delighted to be invited to speak, along with Hadley Wickham, at the seventy-first meeting of the TokyoR user group in Tokyo, Japan. This day-long mini-conference attracted...continue reading.
Demystifying data science terminology
The language used by data scientists can be confusing to anyone encountering it for the first time. Ever changing best practices and constantly evolving technologies and methodologies have given rise...continue reading.
BooST (Boosting Smooth Trees) a new Machine Learning Model for Partial Effect Estimation in Nonlinear Regressions
By Gabriel Vasconcelos and Yuri Fonseca We are happy to introduce our new machine learning method called Boosting Smooth Trees (BooST) (full article here). This model was a joint...continue reading.
Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 now available
Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open 3.5.1...continue reading.
2018 Update of ffanalytics R Package
Introduction As part of our effort to provide users ways to replicate our analyses and improve their performance in fantasy football, we are continuously looking at ways we can improve[…]...continue reading.
R vs Python … which to learn for data science
The post R vs Python … which to learn for data science appeared first on Sharp Sight.continue reading.
Evaluating Olive McBride with the Arkham Horror LCG Chaos Bag Simulator in R
I love Arkham Horror; The Card Game. I love it more than I really should;it’s ridiculously fun. It’s a cooperative card game where you build a deck representing a character...continue reading.
PCA revisited: using principal components for classification of faces
This is a short post following the previous one (PCA revisited).In this post I’m going to apply PCA to a toy problem: the classification of faces. Again I’ll be working...continue reading.
Various Versions of R and Python Logos
Since a couple of months, I am working for STATWORX as a marketing manager (and I love it). My colleagues asked me many times, if it is possible to do...continue reading.
In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex’s Aquarium
The development version of splashr now support authenticated connections to Splash API instances. Just specify user and pass on the initial splashr::splash() call to use your scraping setup a bit...continue reading.
R/Medicine Conference
We are less than one month away from the R/Medicine conference! Tickets are still available to connect with the R users who are advancing the way we think about human...continue reading.
Pattern-based regionalization
Blog posts in the series introducing GeoPAT 2 – a software for pattern-based spatial and temporal analysis: GeoPAT 2: Software for Pattern-Based Spatial and Temporal Analysis Pattern-based Spatial Analysis -...continue reading.
R Weekly 2018-33 Diversity, Books
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Highlight rstudio::conf(2019) diversity scholarships The best books on Computer Science for Data Scientists recommended by Hadley Wickham scales 1.0.0 – Scale Functions for...continue reading.
R/Medicine Conference
We are less than one month away from the R/Medicine conference! Tickets are still available to connect with the R users who are advancing the way we think about human...continue reading.
PCA revisited
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction technique which might come handy when building a predictive model or in the exploratory phase of your data analysis. It is often...continue reading.
Statistics Sunday: Getting Started with the Russian Tweet Dataset
IRA Tweet Data You may have heard that two researchers at Clemson University analyzed almost 3 millions tweets from the Internet Research Agency (IRA) – a “Russian troll factory”. In...continue reading.
From conditional probability to conditional distribution to conditional expectation, and back
I can’t count how many times I have looked up the formal (measure theoretic) definitions of conditional probability distribution or conditional expectation (even though it’s not that hard :weary:) Another...continue reading.
