Bio7 2.7 Retina-Display Fix for MacOSX
08.01.2018 I recently discovered on a high dpi display (Retina-Display) enabled 13’’ notebook that the latest release of Bio7 for MacOSX is not displayed in high dpi but in a...continue reading.
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Diffusion/Wiener Model Analysis with brms – Part II: Model Diagnostics and Model Fit
This is the considerably belated second part of my blog series on fitting diffusion models (or better, the 4-parameter Wiener model) with brms. The first part discusses how to set...continue reading.
Anscombe’s Quartet: 1980’s Edition
In this post, I’ll describe a fun visualization of Anscombe’s quartet I whipped up recently.If you aren’t familiar with Anscombe’s quartet, here’s a brief description from its Wikipedia entry: “Anscombe’s...continue reading.
Undemocratic Democracies
I’ve always thought that it was ironic that most countries with the word “Democratic” in their name are exceptionally un-democratic in reality. So I was very interested in the following...continue reading.
Downloading UK property prices from Zoopla in R
Zoopla allows a limited access to its API providing the latest property prices and area indices. I created a package in R that allows querying this database. See the GitHub...continue reading.
Using nonstandard evaluation to simulate a register machine
No, not the cha-ching kind of machinecontinue reading.
simmer 3.6.5
The fifth update of the 3.6.x release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN. This release extends the attributes API by allowing users to set/get multiple attributes at...continue reading.
Analysis on Google’s Best Apps of 2017 List
A look at Google’s “Best Apps of 2017” lists. In this tutorial we use screen scraping and a wide variety of visualization techniques. Technologies include: R, Data Science Experience and...continue reading.
Sub-Gaussian property for the Beta distribution (part 3, final)
In this third and last post about the Sub-Gaussian property for the Beta distribution [1] (post 1 and post 2), I would like to show the interplay with the Bernoulli distribution...continue reading.
Happy Holidays Data Lovers!
A fun holiday post exploring a new R visualization package called alluvialcontinue reading.
Make your own color palettes with paletti
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.
A comprehensive guide to connect R to Amazon Redshift
A guide through the available drivers and tools when using Amazon Redshift from R and/or RStudio. We examine RPostgreSQL, RPostgres and RJDBC.continue reading.
Data discretization made easy with funModeling
A try to automatize the data preparation discretization stage. Converting numerical variables into categorical to be used in real scenarios.continue reading.
(Don’t Get) Contangled Up In Noise
This post will be about investigating the efficacy of contango as a volatility trading signal. For those that trade volatility … Continue reading →continue reading.
Surprising stories hide in seemingly mundane data
Mapping geospatial data using the leaflet package in R, and integrating the resultant interactive map into a WordPress blog post. The post Surprising stories hide in seemingly mundane data appeared...continue reading.
Sub-Gaussian property for the Beta distribution (part 2)
As a follow-up on my previous post on the sub-Gaussian property for the Beta distribution [1], I’ll give here a visual illustration of the proof. A random variable with finite...continue reading.
Predictive Analytics Tutorial: Part 4
Part 4 of 4 in a tutorial showing how to perform end to end predictive analytics to solve your business problem. The tutorial focuses on creating, selecting and implementing predictive...continue reading.
Gold-Mining Week 15 (2017)
Week 15 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining Week 15 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.continue reading.
Color palettes derived from the Dutch masters
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.
The ‘I-Love-IKEA’ – web app, built at the IKEA Hackaton with R and Shiny
Introduction On the 8th, 9th and 10th of December I participated at the IKEA hackaton. In one word it was just FANTASTIC! Well organized, good food, and participants from literally...continue reading.
