Resizing spatial data in R
Here I am after a short break, writing again about R!In december I worked on a project that required me to work on spatial data. This led me to learn...continue reading.
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WHO Tuberculosis Data & ggplot2
So it has been a while since my previous post on some data taken from the UNHCR database. This post we’ll bring it back to the topic of infectious diseases...continue reading.
Using external data from within another package
If you make the error which I did, you will try to use the data (say, “pckgdata”) from another package (say, “pckg”) naively like this: This will result in an...continue reading.
Playing with dimensions: from Clustering, PCA, t-SNE… to Carl Sagan!
Explore the intersection of concepts like dimension reduction, clustering, data preparation, PCA, HDBSCAN, k-NN, SOM, deep learning…and Carl Sagan!continue reading.
Gender gap in Swedish mortality
Why Sweden? Sweden, with its high quality statistical record since 1748, is the natural choice for any demographic study that aims to cover population dynamics during a long period of...continue reading.
Mapping Biodiversity data on smaller than one degree scale
Guest Post by Enjie (Jane) LI I have been using bdvis package (version 0.2.9) to visualize the iNaturalist records of RAScals project (http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/rascals). Initially, the mapgrid function in the bdvis version...continue reading.
Preview of a scientific notebook in fnirsr
Here’s a demonstration of using the notebook within the fnirsr package: More information about R Notebooks can be found in the RStudio’s blog post.continue reading.
Should I Learn R or Python? … It Doesn’t Matter
Should I learn R or Python for data science? I am asked this question regularly, both online and in person. There is a simple answer: it doesn’t matter. There are...continue reading.
30 issues of Demographic Digest – the most frequent journals
This week, the 30-th issue of my Demographic Digest was published. Demographic Digest is my project that started in November 2015. Twice a month I select fresh demographic papers and...continue reading.
MODIStsp v.1.3.1 released !
“MODIStsp” is a R package allowing automatic download and preprocessing of MODIS Land Products time series, available at this https://github.com/lbusett/MODIStsp github page (See also here for additional information) v1.3.1 adds...continue reading.
Building a pokemon graph database
What happens when you combine Pokemon with Neo4j? I’m a huge Pokemon fan. So, when I found about this awesome post from Joshua Kunst, I just couldn’t wait to throw...continue reading.
R Tutorial: Visualizing Multivariate Relationships in Large Datasets
R Tutorial: Visualizing multivariate relationships in Large Datasets A tutorial by D.M. Wiig In two previous blog posts I discussed some techniques for visualizing relationships involving two or three variables...continue reading.
Male mortality in Russia and Japan
Russia is sadly notorious for its ridiculously high adult male mortality. According to Human Mortality Database data (2010), the probability for a Russian men to survive from 20 to 60...continue reading.
Sex ratios in all countries from Human Mortality Database
Sex ratios reflect the two basic regularities of human demographics: 1) there are always more boys being born; 2) males experience higher mortality throughout their life-course. The sex ratio at...continue reading.
UNHCR Refugee Data Visualized
I was working on to expand the disease transmission model from my first post but with the currents events, I felt compelled to work on something different. The new United States presidential administration formulated an...continue reading.
Enough trying to use LTO
After months and months of working trying to get R on 64 bit Windows to work with link-time-optimization (LTO), I’ve come to the conclusion that GCC 4.9.3’s implementation of LTO...continue reading.
Empirical Software Engineering using R: first draft available for download
A draft of my book Empirical Software Engineering using R is now available for download. The book essentially comes in two parts: statistical techniques that are useful for analyzing software...continue reading.
Hello R world post
Welcome to my blog! My name is Ilya, I am a demographer. Here I plan to post some research related stuff. As I am crazy about R, my post will...continue reading.
What is new in the intrval R package?
An update (v 0.1-1) of the intrval package was recently published on CRAN. The package simplifies interval related logical operations (read more about the motivation in this post). So what...continue reading.
What is new in the intrval R package?
An update (v 0.1-1) of the intrval package was recently published on CRAN. The package simplifies interval related logical operations (read more about the motivation in this post). So what...continue reading.
