Le Monde puzzle [#1083]
A Le Monde mathematical puzzle that seems hard to solve without the backup of a computer (and just simple enough to code on a flight to Montpellier): Given the number...continue reading.
Category: R
The finalfit tables gallery has all the variations you could possibly want
The new finalfit tables gallery vignette is an excellent reference and quick tutorial describing the variety of table outputs available. It focuses on crosstables and regression tables, and demonstrates how...continue reading.
Organizing R Research Projects: CPAT, A Case Study
Introduction Months ago, I asked a question to the community: how should I organize my R research projects? After writing that post, doing some reading, then putting a plan in...continue reading.
Sobol Sequence vs. Uniform Random in Hyper-Parameter Optimization
Tuning hyper-parameters might be the most tedious yet crucial in various machine learning algorithms, such as neural networks, svm, or boosting. The configuration of hyper-parameters not only impacts the computational...continue reading.
Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R
We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet. Ubiquiti network gear...continue reading.
R Package Update: urlscan
The urlscan🔗 package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io’s authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if...continue reading.
Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated
A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed...continue reading.
Tutorial: Sequential Pattern Mining in R for Business Recommendations
by Allison Koenecke, Data Scientist, AI & Research Group at Microsoft, with acknowledgements to Amita Gajewar and John-Mark Agosta. In this tutorial, Allison Koenecke demonstrates how Microsoft could recommend to...continue reading.
Mandalaxies
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their...continue reading.
recogeo: A new R package to reconcile changing geographies boundaries (and corresponding variables)
Demographics information is usually reported in relation to precise boundaries: administrative, electoral, statistical, etc. Comparing demographics information reported at different point in time is often problematic because boundaries keep changing....continue reading.
Computational Bayesian Statistics [book review]
This Cambridge University Press book by M. Antónia Amaral Turkman, Carlos Daniel Paulino, and Peter Müller is an enlarged translation of a set of lecture notes in Portuguese. (Warning: I...continue reading.
missing digit in a 114 digit number [a Riddler’s riddle]
A puzzling riddle from The Riddler (as Le Monde had a painful geometry riddle this week): this number with 114 digits 530,131,801,762,787,739,802,889,792,754,109,70?,139,358,547,710,066,257,652,050,346,294,484,433,323,974,747,960,297,803,292,989,236,183,040,000,000,000 is missing one digit and is a product...continue reading.
Fast Static Maps Built with R
Luke Whyte posted an article (apologies for a Medium link) over on Towards Data Science showing how to use a command line workflow involving curl, node and various D3 libraries...continue reading.
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2019 update
Chains of amino acids strung together make up proteins and since each amino acid has a 1-letter abbreviation, we can find words (English and otherwise) in protein sequences. I imagine...continue reading.
Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly
The seymour🔗 Feedly API package has been updated to support subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds. Previously the package was intended to just treat your Feedly as a data source, but there...continue reading.
benchmarkme: new version
When discussing how to speed up slow R code, my first question is what is your computer spec? It’s always surprised me that people are wondering why analysing big data...continue reading.
Problems in Estimating GARCH Parameters in R (Part 2; rugarch)
Introduction Now here is a blog post that has been sitting on the shelf far longer than it should have. Over a year ago I wrote an article about problems...continue reading.
Plotly – An interactive Charting library
In this blog we will explore the plotly library for python and R. We show how plotly is structured and use the LA Metro Bike dataset as an example to...continue reading.
satRdays Newcastle 2019 Conference is Here!
We are pleased to announce the very first Satrday event in Newcastle upon Tyne (and England). satRdays Newcastle is a one-day, low-cost, community organised R conference in the heart of...continue reading.
R Conference Costs v2.0
R conference Costs Last year we gave you a price break down of some of the most popular R conferences around the globe for 2017. We’re going to do it...continue reading.
