7 Must-Have Skills to Get a Job as a Data Scientist
Must-Have Skills for Data Science Everybody and their mother wants to learn data science. And there’s no reason not to – the job you do is interesting 95% of the...continue reading.
Category: R
Calling [Compiled] Swift from R: Part 2
The previous post introduced the topic of how to compile Swift code for use in R using a useless, toy example. This one goes a bit further and makes a...continue reading.
SwiftR Switcheroo: Calling [Compiled] Swift from R!
I’ve been on a Swift + R bender for a while now, but have been envious of the pure macOS/iOS (et al) folks who get to use Apple’s seriously ++good...continue reading.
New features in Power BI for Data Analysts – Small multiples, Anomaly Detection and Zoom on visuals
Great new features have bundled and are now available in Power BI. With December 2020 update, all of the features described in this blog post will be available. Once you...continue reading.
AzureCosmosR: interface to Azure Cosmos DB
by Hong Ooi Last week, I announced AzureCosmosR, an R interface to Azure Cosmos DB, a fully-managed NoSQL database service in Azure. This post gives a short rundown on the...continue reading.
Kempner Fi
A short code-golf challenge led me to learn about the Kempner series, which is the series made of the inverted integers, excluding all those containing the digit 9. Most surprisingly...continue reading.
Introducing shiny.semantic::grid() – Build Your Shiny Dashboard Layout in Seconds
shiny.semantic::grid() The main job of a data scientist is to provide meaningful insights, mostly through data visualizations and dashboards. More often than not, data science professionals struggle with HTML and...continue reading.
Register for Appsilon’s R Shiny Masterclass @ rstudio::global
rstudio::global is Just Around the Corner Only a few days remain until the 2021 rstudio::global conference on January 21st, and we have some good news. In collaboration with RStudio, Appsilon...continue reading.
New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App
Last week I introduced a new bookdown series on how to embed R into a macOS Swift application. The initial chapters focused on core concepts and showed how to build...continue reading.
Applications are open for the fifth summer school in statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP)
The annual summer school, now in its fifth edition, will happen 6-10 Sept 2021, and will be conducted virtually over zoom. The summer school is free and is funded by...continue reading.
What’s new with AzureR
by Hong Ooi This is an update on what’s been happening with the AzureR suite of packages. First, you may have noticed that just before the holiday season, the packages...continue reading.
How to Make REST APIs with R: A Beginners Guide to Plumber
REST APIs with R and Plumber REST APIs are everywhere around us. Software engineers use them to develop backend logic, and data scientists use them to deploy machine learning models....continue reading.
My predictions for 2021 – Data and analytics
Year 2020 has had a tremendous impact on our lives and has driven many changes. Since last year was a year of radical changes (which we were or were not...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – Countdown number puzzle
The famous countdown game loved among mathematicians and people adoring numbers and why not find a way to check for solutions. So the game is (was) known as a TV...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – Countdown number puzzle
The famous countdown game loved among mathematicians and people adoring numbers and why not find a way to check for solutions. So the game is (was) known as a TV...continue reading.
Machine Learning with R: A Complete Guide to Logistic Regression
Logistic Regression with R Logistic regression is one of the most fundamental algorithms from statistics, commonly used in machine learning. It’s not used to produce SOTA models but can serve...continue reading.
Safety Checking Locally Installed Package URLs
I went completely daft this week and broke my months-long Twitter break due to the domestic terror event in my nation’s capitol. I’ll likely be resuming the break starting today....continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – Mathematical puzzle of Four fours
Yes. Playing with numbers is another call for useless R function. This time, we will be using a function that will find the simplest mathematical expression for a whole number...continue reading.
IMDb datasets: 3 centuries of movie rankings visualized
The Question I am a sucker for IMDb ratings so don’t judge me. They are my priors before watching almost anything on a screen (home screen that is). But between...continue reading.
How to Analyze Data with R: A Complete Beginner Guide to dplyr
Datasets often require many work hours to understand fully. R makes this process as easy as possible through the dplyr package – the easiest solution for code-based data analysis. You’ll...continue reading.
