Is Your Data Science Team Agile?
Photo by James Forbes on Unsplash As we recently wrote in our first post on Serious Data Science, there are numerous challenges to effectively implementing data science in an organization....continue reading.
Photo by James Forbes on Unsplash As we recently wrote in our first post on Serious Data Science, there are numerous challenges to effectively implementing data science in an organization....continue reading.
There is a new release of the embed package on CRAN. embed contains a number of recipe steps that can be used to represent predictors using a smaller set of...continue reading.
June 11th (8:00pm UTC+2) is a date for next fascinating Webinar at Why R? Foundation. This week we will have a pleasure to host Dr. Erin Hodgess who will present...continue reading.
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-06-08 This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. How to have...continue reading.
Introduction With Rcpp attributes Rcpp modules (described in the Rcpp vignettes) it is easy to expose C++ classes and functions to R. This note describes how to use classes exported...continue reading.
When answering an X validated question on running an accept-reject algorithm for the Gamma distribution by using a mixture of Beta and drifted (bt 1) Exponential distributions, I came across...continue reading.
This report describes improvements to clipping in the R graphics engine. These changes will be of particular interest to maintainers of R graphics device packages …continue reading.
Sometimes one needs to mimic the exact behavior of R’s Distributions within C++ code. The incredible Rcpp team has provided access to these distributions through Rmath.h (in the R:: namespace),...continue reading.
Business intelligence (BI) is an indispensable tool for many, if not most, modern organizations. BI covers an entire gamut of end-to-end activities from data mining to reporting, all carried out...continue reading.
Hi everyone, This short post is just to point to a course on “Couplings and Monte Carlo”, available here https://sites.google.com/site/pierrejacob/cmclectures. Versions of the course were given in Université Paris-Dauphine in...continue reading.
The weekly puzzle from Le Monde is once more disappointing. Everyday of the month, take 0, 1 or 2 units. If one unit taken past day, next day none can...continue reading.
We are over five months into this pandemic, and it is pretty clear that almost everyone is really tired of hearing about it. I myself am totally zoomed out and...continue reading.
Columns in a data frame can be easily extracted and manipulated with the $ operator. Even new columns can be added by assigning a vector. Extract columns from a data...continue reading.
Models for individual subjects are becoming increasingly popular in psychological research. One reason is that it is difficult to make inferences from between-person data to within-person processes. Another is that...continue reading.
The French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (for which I’m currently working) is ongoing a process of opening data related to energy consumption. Each year, we publish data...continue reading.
In a recent post, we defined three key attributes of a concept we call Serious Data Science: Credibility, Agility and Durability. In this post, we’ll drill into the challenge of...continue reading.
In a recent post, we defined three key attributes of a concept we call Serious Data Science: Credibility, Agility and Durability. In this post, we’ll drill into the challenge of...continue reading.
June 4th (8:00pm UTC+2) will bring another fascinating Webinar at Why R? Foundation. We will have a presentation by Julia Silge about Understanding Word Embeddings. See you on the Webinar!...continue reading.
Last week in Mapping Texas Ports with R [part 1], we created a simple map of Texas ports with R, ggplot2, and geom_sf. That map was really just a “rough...continue reading.
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the...continue reading.