Why R 2018 Winners
So it’s here… After lots of entries (147 to be precise), we can finally announce the winner of the WhyR 2018 Competition! But first, we have to tell you quickly...continue reading.
So it’s here… After lots of entries (147 to be precise), we can finally announce the winner of the WhyR 2018 Competition! But first, we have to tell you quickly...continue reading.
Recently, I attended a presentation where the following graph was shown illustrating the response to stimulation with Thalidomide among a cohort of HIV-1 patients. The biomarker used to measure the...continue reading.
I just finished teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis at the IQMR summer school at Syracuse. With three lecture and three labs the problem every year is getting the right R packages...continue reading.
All that noise, and all that sound, all those places I have found (Speed of Sound, Coldplay) Some days ago, my friend Jorge showed me one of the coolest datasets...continue reading.
Everything that exists in R is an object ~ John M. Chambers Everything that happens in R is the result of a function call ~ John M. Chambers Names have...continue reading.
Both R and Python possess libraries for using SQL statements to interact with data frames. While both languages have native facilities for manipulating data, the sqldf and pandasql provide a simple and...continue reading.
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn I love the pkgdown package. With a single line of code you can create a complete website with examples, vignettes and documentation for your package. Brilliant!...continue reading.
I have been working in high dimensional analysis to predict drug response in rheumatoid arthritis patients and I was concerned to find the procedure called optimism corrected bootstrapping over-fits as...continue reading.
Histograms are good, density plots are also good. Violin and bean plots too. Recently I had someone ask for a plot where you could see each individual point along a...continue reading.
Your favourite package for getting model outputs directly into publication ready tables is now available on CRAN. They make you work for it! Thank you to all that helped. The...continue reading.
27.06.2018 In Bio7 R and Java code can be easily combined in the Bio7 platform. For instance to create Graphical User Interfaces in Java (with SWT or JavaFX), transfer image...continue reading.
As Data Scientists, we often train complex algorithms in order to tackle certain business problems and generate value. These algorithms, however, can take a while to train. Sometimes they take...continue reading.
As Data Scientists, we often train complex algorithms in order to tackle certain business problems and generate value. These algorithms, however, can take a while to train. Sometimes they take...continue reading.
Correspondence Analysis Correspondence analysis is a multivariate statistical technique that summarizes a set of categorical data in a two dimensional form. It’s like the equivalent of Principal Component Analysis but...continue reading.
“Some R functions have an awful lot of arguments”, you think to yourself. “I wonder which has the most?” It’s not an original thought: the same question as applied to...continue reading.
Introduction BlueSky Statistics’ desktop version is a free and open source graphical user interface for the R software that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. A commercial...continue reading.
Tap into Twitter data and create custom word clouds that will visualize the conversation in an impactful way. Analysis performed with R.continue reading.
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Challenge-Based Learning to technika uczenia przez zderzanie uczestników (studenci, uczniowie) ze współczesnym, ciekawym, rzeczywistym problemem do rozwiązania. Aby taki problem rozwiązać, uczestnicy muszą zrobić badania literaturowe,...continue reading.
Every inch of sky’s got a star Every inch of skin’s got a scar (Everything Now, Arcade Fire) I think that a very good way to start with R is...continue reading.
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn I’ve heard about a number of consulting companies, that decided to use simple linear model instead of a black box model with higher performance, because ,,client...continue reading.