waldo
We’re stoked to announce the waldo package. waldo is designed to find and concisely describe the difference between a pair of R objects. It was designed primarily to improve failure...continue reading.
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Spreadsheets are OK for Data, Bad for Data Analyses
There are plentiful examples of spreadsheet applications leading analysts astray. Believe all the scary stories. Spreadsheets can silently damage your data, converting numbers to dates or dropping leading zeros from...continue reading.
Overengineering in ML – business life is not a Kaggle competition
“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily...continue reading.
“Overprediction” – business life is not a Kaggle competition
“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily...continue reading.
Tableau vs. R Shiny: Which Excel Alternative Is Right For You?
tl;dr As of late 2020 there are many dashboarding/reporting/BI tools out there, with the most popular ones being Tableau, PowerBI, and R Shiny. The question quickly becomes – “How can I determine...continue reading.
RStudio v1.4 Preview: Command Palette
This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release. What’s a Command Palette? Just as a paint palette gives the...continue reading.
Predicting class membership for the #TidyTuesday Datasaurus Dozen
Which of the Datasaurus Dozen are easier or harder for a random forest model to identify? Learn how to use multiclass evaluation metrics to find out.continue reading.
RStudio v1.4 Preview: Command Palette
This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release. What’s a Command Palette? Just as a paint palette gives the...continue reading.
Predicting class membership for the #TidyTuesday Datasaurus Dozen
This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from starting out with first modeling steps to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast...continue reading.
Short & Sweet: {cdcfluview} 0.9.2 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors
The CDC continues to “deliver” in 2020, this time by changing the JSON response of one of the hidden APIs that my {cdcfluview} package wraps. CDC: So helpful! It was...continue reading.
The (Delayed) 2019 Training Review
Don’t we all miss 2019 (blame Covid for the long delay in this post). The days of going to work and seeing your work colleagues face to face – and...continue reading.
Whitepaper: Change-Management für Data Science – Wie erreicht man ein Data Mindset
Data Science und künstliche Intelligenz sind der Schlüssel zur zukünftigen Wertschöpfung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit vieler Organisationen. Daher ist im Rahmen von KI-Initiativen effizientes Change-Management zur Transformation des Denkens im Top-Down-Prozess dringend...continue reading.
Why R? 2020 Conference Summary
The fourth edition of Why R? Conference (2020.whyr.pl) finished this weekend. The post presents the highlights of the conference and the overall summary. You can find all videos from the...continue reading.
Open Source Data Science in Investment Management
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Many of the strategies at my old investment shop were thematically oriented. Among them was the notion of the “data deluge.” We sought to...continue reading.
Help Delphi’s COVIDcast Project fight the pandemic!
The Delphi epidemiological forecasting group at Carnegie Mellon University is undertaking a massive effort to develop leading indicators for COVID-19 outbreaks, and if you are an R or Python developer...continue reading.
R 4.0.3 now available
The R Core Team has released R 4.0.3 (codename: “Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out”), the latest update to the R statistical computing system. This is a minor update to the R 4.0.x...continue reading.
Display Pretty R tables in GitHub
Learn how to display your pretty R tables in GitHub by hosting your .Rmd html output with GitHub pages.continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-41 package development topics, contributing to rOpenSci, learnr and shiny
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-10-12 This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. How to have...continue reading.
sparklyr.flint 0.2: ASOF Joins, OLS Regression, and additional summarizers
We are excited to announce a number of powerful, new functionalities and improvements which are now part of sparklyr.flint 0.2!continue reading.
understanding elections through statistics [book review]
A book to read most urgently if hoping to take an informed decision by 03 November! Written by a political scientist cum statistician, Ole Forsberg. (If you were thinking of...continue reading.
