The Psychology of Flame Wars
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but with the dplyr vs data.table feud rising to new levels on Twitter the last couple of days, it all...continue reading.
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but with the dplyr vs data.table feud rising to new levels on Twitter the last couple of days, it all...continue reading.
Yesterday v.0.5.0 of the padr package hit CRAN. You will find the main changes in the thicken function, that has gained two new arguments. First of all, by an idea...continue reading.
Recently, I came up with Thoen’s law. It is an empirical one, based on several years of doing data science projects in different organisations. Here it is: The probability that...continue reading.
Throughout the last years I noticed the following happening with a number of people. One of those people was actually yours truely a few years back. Person is aware of...continue reading.
If you build statistical or machine learning models, the recipes package can be useful for data preparation. A recipe object is a container that holds all the steps that should...continue reading.
Last week I blogged about the dutchmasters color palettes package, which was inspired by the wonderful ochRe package. As mentioned I shamelessly copied the package. I replaced the list with...continue reading.
Among tulip fields, canals and sampling cheese, the museums of the Netherlands are one of its biggest tourist attractions. And for very good reasons! During the seventeenth century, known as...continue reading.
If you are a data scientist who primarily works with R, chances are you had no formal training in software development. I certainly did not pick up many skills in...continue reading.
I am happy to share that the latest version of padr just hit CRAN. This new version comprises bug fixes, performance improvements and new functions for formatting datetime variables. But...continue reading.