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.
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more concentration, everywhere
Although it may sound like an excessive notion of optimality, one can hope at obtaining an estimator δ of a unidimensional parameter θ that is always closer to θ that...continue reading.
Right Now It’s KDA…Asset Allocation.
This post will introduce KDA Asset Allocation. KDA — I.E. Kipnis Defensive Adaptive Asset Allocation is a combination of Wouter … Continue reading →continue reading.
Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive
As someone who measures all kinds of things on the internet as part of his $DAYJOB, I can say with some authority that huge swaths of organizations are using cloud-services...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1081]
A “he said-she said” Le Monde mathematical puzzle (again in the spirit of the famous Singapore high-school birthdate problem): Abigail and Corentin are both given a positive integer, a and...continue reading.
Why Management Loves Overfitting
Why Management Loves Overfitting The role of a data scientist involves building and fine-tuning of models and improve processes and products in various business areas. Typical use cases involve marketing...continue reading.
RStudio Server on Azure
RStudio Server Pro is now available on the Azure Marketplace, the company announced on the RStudio Blog earlier this month. This means you can launch RStudio Server Pro on an...continue reading.
What’s the deal with wind chill?
WIND SPEEDS UP HEAT LOSS Twenty years ago, a German colleague asked me what the deal was with wind chill. I guess they didn’t have it in Germany. The question...continue reading.
The Shiny Module Design Pattern
Foremost in your mind should be the quintessential reality of R: Everything that happens in R is the result of a function call. Shiny is no exception. To write a...continue reading.
R Studio Conf 2019 – Easing your FOMO with R Resources
Aiming to ease your RStudio::Conf FOMO by sharing as much R and conference information as possible. The goal is to help everyone feel included, ready to level up their R...continue reading.
hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News
Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes🔗 package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks...continue reading.
simmer 4.2.1
The 4.2.1 release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN with quite interesting new features and fixes. As discussed in the mailing list, there is a way...continue reading.
Window Aggregate operator in batch mode in SQL Server 2019
So this came as a surprise, when working on calculating simple statistics on my dataset, in particular min, max and median. First two are trivial. The last one was the...continue reading.
Rcrastinate is moving.
Hi all, this is just an announcement.I am moving Rcrastinate to a blogdown-based solution and am therefore leaving blogger.com. If you’re interested in the new setup and how you could...continue reading.
Are you parallelizing your raster operations? You should!
If you plan to do anything with the raster package you should definitely consider parallelize all your processes, especially if you are working with very large image files. I couldn’t find...continue reading.
AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: January 2019
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and...continue reading.
Use foreach with HPC schedulers thanks to the future package
The future package is a powerful and elegant cross-platform framework for orchestrating asynchronous computations in R. It’s ideal for working with computations that take a long time to complete; that...continue reading.
Feature Selection using Genetic Algorithms in R
From a gentle introduction to a practical solution, this is a post about feature selection using genetic algorithms in R.continue reading.
Using clusterlab to benchmark clustering algorithms
Clusterlab is a CRAN package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/clusterlab/index.html) for the routine testing of clustering algorithms. It can simulate positive (data-sets with >1 clusters) and negative controls (data-sets with 1 cluster). Why test...continue reading.
Selecting ‘special’ photos on your phone
At the beginning of the new year I always want to clean up my photos on my phone. It just never happens. So now (like so many others I think)...continue reading.
