Advent of Code 2019 challenge with R
I have decided to tackle this year’s Advent Of Code using R (more or less). I know there are more preferred languages, such as Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Kotlin,...continue reading.
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Le Monde puzzle [#1119]
A digit puzzle as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle that sounds close to some earlier versions: Perfect squares are pairs (a²,b²) with the same number of digits such that...continue reading.
HackRcity 2019 recap: hacking the “coolest city” contest
Intro + hackathon description Have you ever participated in a hackathon? A month ago my answer was still no (despite the fact that I’ve been working in the R Shiny/Data...continue reading.
Training courses in San Francisco
Jumping Rivers are coming to San Francisco in January 2020! We’ll be running a number of R training courses with Paradigm Data. You can find the booking links and more...continue reading.
lintools 0.1.3 is on CRAN
Version 0.1.3 of the lintools package was accepted on CRAN today. This version brings a few internal improvements and switches the testing suite to the tinytest test infrastructure. lintools is...continue reading.
Sponsorship: SatRdays and useR Groups
SatRdays SatRdays are great. Low cost R events, held around the world. What’s not to love! For the last year, we have been offering automatic sponsorship for all SatRday events....continue reading.
Counting Arguments in the Tidyverse
Before we start anything, I’d like to mention that most of the hard work came from nsaunders and his great blog post Idle thoughts lead to R internals: how to...continue reading.
How to make a precision recall curve in R
Precision recall (PR) curves are useful for machine learning model evaluation when there is an extreme imbalance in the data and the analyst is interested particuarly in one class. A...continue reading.
Gold-Mining Week 14 (2019)
Week 14 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 14 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.continue reading.
How Auth0’s Data Team uses R and Python
Auth0 Data Team shares their tooling, from R to Python, their favourite open-souce libraries for data science and data engineering 🛠continue reading.
Modelling Cairngorm snow to 2080
Want to know the potential impacts of climate change on Scottish snow? Read on!continue reading.
Improve General Regression Neural Network by Monotonic Binning
A major criticism on the binning algorithm as well as on the WoE transformation is that the use of binned predictors will decrease the model predictive power due to the...continue reading.
How You Measure Months Matters — A Lot. A Look At Two Implementations of KDA
This post will detail a rather important finding I found while implementing a generalized framework for momentum asset allocation backtests. … Continue reading →continue reading.
GRNN with Small Samples
After a bank launches a new product or acquires a new portfolio, the risk modeling team would often be faced with a challenge of how to estimate the corresponding performance,...continue reading.
Gold-Mining Week 13 (2019)
Week 13 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 13 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.continue reading.
Easy US Maps in R – Thanksgiving Edition
See which US states are most excited about Thanksgiving. Explore Google search popularity for the keyword “thanksgiving” using gTrendsR while creating easy US maps in R using the usmap package.continue reading.
How to easily make a ROC curve in R
A typical task in evaluating the results of machine learning models is making a ROC curve, this plot can inform the analyst how well a model can discriminate one class...continue reading.
Another mixed effects model visualization
Creating a diagram to illustrate information borrowing (partial pooling)continue reading.
2019-02 SVG In, SVG Out
This report discusses how to work with complex SVG images in R. We look at importing an external SVG image into R with the ‘grImport2’ …continue reading.
satRday Cardiff 2019 recap
SatRday events have become a more and more popular format of R conference series. They are based on such values as inclusivity, affordability and are made for and by real...continue reading.
