Elizabeth!
Over the last few months I have been spending my nights taking care of my newly born second daughter. Keeping me company during the sleepless wee hours of the morning...continue reading.
Category: R News
Plotting GPX tracks with Shiny and Leaflet
Lately, I got the chance to play around with Shiny and Leaflet a lot – and it is really fun! So I decided to catch up on an old post...continue reading.
Image recognition tutorial in R using deep convolutional neural networks (MXNet package)
This is a detailed tutorial on image recognition in R using a deep convolutional neural network provided by the MXNet package. After a short post I wrote some times ago...continue reading.
Life Expectancy by Country
I was inspired by Andrew Collier’s blog post Life Expectancy by Country where he illustrated how to create a bubble chart that compares female and male life expectancies for a number of countries based on the...continue reading.
readr 1.0.0
readr 1.0.0 is now available on CRAN. readr makes it easy to read many types of rectangular data, including csv, tsv and fixed width files. Compared to base equivalents like...continue reading.
Something Strange in the Neighborhood
Today I was so pleased to see a new data package hit CRAN, and how wonderful to see such accomplished women writing R packages. What a great new data package...continue reading.
Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model with R (part 1: Markov chains concept)
Using Markov chains allow us to switch from Google Analytics heuristic models to probabilistic ones. By computing the model and estimating transition probabilities we can attribute every channel/touchpoint As we...continue reading.
Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model with R (part 1: Markov chains concept)
Using Markov chains allow us to switch from Google Analytics heuristic models to probabilistic ones. By computing the model and estimating transition probabilities we can attribute every channel/touchpoint As we...continue reading.
Kernels for everyone!
During my dissertation, I spent a lot of time working on spatial kernel estimates. Where spatial kernel estimates are defined as a convolution of a spatial suppport , A simple...continue reading.
Kernels for everyone!
During my dissertation, I spent a lot of time working on spatial kernel estimates. Where spatial kernel estimates are defined as a convolution of a spatial suppport , A simple...continue reading.
Two papers, with code: Statistical Methods for Linguistic Research (Parts 1 and 2)
Here are two papers that may be useful for researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science:Shravan Vasishth and Bruno Nicenboim. Statistical methods for linguistic research: Foundational Ideas – Part I. Language and...continue reading.
Finding possible class schedules
Over the weekend my brother wanted to figure out his class schedule for the next semester. He is a veterinary medicine and zootechnology student at UNAM. For this upcoming semester...continue reading.
Finding possible class schedules
Over the weekend my brother wanted to figure out his class schedule for the next semester. He is a veterinary medicine and zootechnology student at UNAM. For this upcoming semester...continue reading.
2016 Australian Federal Election Flexdashboard
Here in the land down under we’ve finally completed our Federal election. We complain that it seems to go on for too long, but it’s a brief distraction compared to...continue reading.
Visualisation of Likert scale results
[EDIT: The function now also inludes the possibility to plot the IQR around the median. I shifted the median slightly downwards to prevent the SD and the IQR from overlapping.]I...continue reading.
Merge a list of datasets together
Last week I showed how to read a lot of datasets at once with R, and this week I’ll continue from there and show a very simple function that uses...continue reading.
Merge a list of datasets together
Last week I showed how to read a lot of datasets at once with R, and this week I’ll continue from there and show a very simple function that uses...continue reading.
Troubles with cell labels in mosaic plots… and how to solve them.
Today I want to write about a solution to a quite specific problem. Suppose, you want to label cells in your ‘vcd’ package mosaic plots in a custom way. For...continue reading.
On a finite time scale
It was rumored that updates to the MacBook Pro were coming at WWDC. These rumors did not pan out. Instead it looks like the new MacBook Pro will be landing...continue reading.
