Gartner’s 2019 Take on Data Science Software
I’ve just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner’s 2019 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the...continue reading.
Category: R
Introducing Rank Data Analysis with Arkham Horror Data
Introduction Last week I analyzed player rankings of the Arkham Horror LCG classes. This week I explain what I did in the data analysis. As I mentioned, this is the...continue reading.
A Tale of Two (Small Belgian) Cities with Open Data: Official Crime Statistics and Self-Reported Feelings of Safety in Leuven and Vilvoorde
In this post, we will analyze government data from the Flemish region in Belgium on A) official crime statistics and B) self-reported feelings of safety among residents of Flanders. We...continue reading.
Bayesian Optimization for Hyper-Parameter
In past several weeks, I spent a tremendous amount of time on reading literature about automatic parameter tuning in the context of Machine Learning (ML), most of which can be...continue reading.
ViennaR Meetup Announcement March 2019
ViennaR Meetup Announcement March 2019 For the next ViennaR Meetup on March 18 we are excited to announce Laura Vana (R-Ladies) and Hadley Wickham (RStudio). The meetup will take place...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1087]
A board-like Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given a (k,m) binary matrix, what is the maximum number S of entries with only one neighbour equal to one?...continue reading.
Allusions to parents in autobiographies (or reading 118 books in a few seconds)
If I keep holding out, will the light shine through? (Come Back, Pearl Jam) Imagine that you are writing the story of your life. Almost sure you will make allusions...continue reading.
Let’s get LEGO’d!
Create your own 3D Lego masterpieces in R using custom functions and the rayshader package.continue reading.
Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration – New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java
There are two fledgling rJava-based R packages that enable working with the AWS SDK for Athena: awsathena | GL| GH awsathenajars | GL| GH They’re both needed to conform with...continue reading.
call for sessions and labs at Bay2sC0mp²⁰
A call to all potential participants to the incoming BayesComp 2020 conference at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, 7-10 January 2020, to submit proposals [to me] for contributed...continue reading.
forcats::fct_match
This journey started almost exactly a year ago, but it’s finally been sufficiently worked through and merged! Yay, I’ve officially contributed to the tidyverse (minor as it may be). It...continue reading.
Running your R script in Docker
This blogpost explains step by step how you can build your own Docker Image and include R scripts. With this you can have scripts running at every image’s beginning. Der...continue reading.
Developments in AzureR
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure The AzureR packages have now been on CRAN for a couple of months, so I thought I’d provide an update on developments...continue reading.
Encryptr package: easily encrypt and decrypt columns of sensitive data
A number of existing R packages support data encryption. However, we haven’t found one that easily suits our needs: to encrypt one or many columns of a data frame or...continue reading.
Number 6174 or Kaprekar constant in R
Not always is the answer 42 as explained in Hitchhiker’s guide. Sometimes it is also 6174. Kaprekar number is one of those gems, that makes Mathematics fun. Indian recreational mathematician...continue reading.
I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of ‘Muricans who can’t spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes their...continue reading.
In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr
WiGLE has been around a while and is a great site to explore the pervasiveness or sparsity of Wi-Fi (and cellular) networks around the globe. While interactive use is fun,...continue reading.
Installing R using Powershell
Installing R from scratch and creating your favorite IDE setup is especially useful when making fresh installation or when you are developing and testing out different versions. This blogpost will...continue reading.
Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages
I must preface this post with the posit that if you’re doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it’s the...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1085]
A new Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given 13 arbitrary relative integers chosen by Bo, Abigail can select any subset of them to be drifted by plus...continue reading.
