Le Monde puzzle [#1146]
The weekly puzzle from Le Monde is once more disappointing. Everyday of the month, take 0, 1 or 2 units. If one unit taken past day, next day none can...continue reading.
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More Select COVID-19 Resources
We are over five months into this pandemic, and it is pretty clear that almost everyone is really tired of hearing about it. I myself am totally zoomed out and...continue reading.
Extract or replace columns in a data frame using `$`
Columns in a data frame can be easily extracted and manipulated with the $ operator. Even new columns can be added by assigning a vector. Extract columns from a data...continue reading.
Estimating Time-varying Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Models
Models for individual subjects are becoming increasingly popular in psychological research. One reason is that it is difficult to make inferences from between-person data to within-person processes. Another is that...continue reading.
Creating an hex map of France electricity consumption
The French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (for which I’m currently working) is ongoing a process of opening data related to energy consumption. Each year, we publish data...continue reading.
Is Your Data Science Credible Enough?
In a recent post, we defined three key attributes of a concept we call Serious Data Science: Credibility, Agility and Durability. In this post, we’ll drill into the challenge of...continue reading.
Is Your Data Science Credible Enough?
In a recent post, we defined three key attributes of a concept we call Serious Data Science: Credibility, Agility and Durability. In this post, we’ll drill into the challenge of...continue reading.
Why R? Webinar – Understanding Word Embeddings
June 4th (8:00pm UTC+2) will bring another fascinating Webinar at Why R? Foundation. We will have a presentation by Julia Silge about Understanding Word Embeddings. See you on the Webinar!...continue reading.
How to create a beautiful map with R and geom_sf [part 2]
Last week in Mapping Texas Ports with R [part 1], we created a simple map of Texas ports with R, ggplot2, and geom_sf. That map was really just a “rough...continue reading.
{sergeant} 0.9.0 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors!
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the...continue reading.
haven 2.3.0
We’re tickled pink to announce the release of haven 2.3.0. haven allows you to read and write SAS, SPSS, and Stata data formats from R, thanks to the wonderful ReadStat...continue reading.
dplyr 1.0.0 available now!
I’m very excited to announce the ninth and final blog post in the dplyr 1.0.0 series: dplyr 1.0.0 is now available from CRAN! Install it by running: install.packages(“dplyr”) Then load...continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-22 Teaching R Markdown, SVG graphics, parsing JSON
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-06-01 This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. How to have...continue reading.
Superspreading and the Gini Coefficient
Abstract: We look at superspreading in infectious disease transmission from a statistical point of view. We characterise heterogeneity in the offspring distribution by the Gini coefficient instead of the usual...continue reading.
Two Different Methods to Apply Some Corey Hoffstein Analysis to your TAA
So, first off: I just finished a Thinkful data science in python bootcamp program that was supposed to take six … Continue reading →continue reading.
RStudio Shortcuts and Tips
Updated: May 2020 by Appsilon Data Science How to Work Faster in RStudio In this article we have compiled many of our favorite RStudio keyboard shortcuts, tips, and tricks to...continue reading.
How to Safely Remove a Dynamic Shiny Module
Despite their advantages, Dynamic Shiny Modules can destabilize the Shiny environment and cause its reactive graph to be rendered multiple times. In this blogpost, I present how to remove deleted...continue reading.
April 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred forty-eight new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series,...continue reading.
Easy PixelCNN with tfprobability
PixelCNN is a deep learning architecture – or bundle of architectures – designed to generate highly realistic-looking images. To use it, no reverse-engineering of arXiv papers or search for reference...continue reading.
CoronaDash app use case – Clustering countries’ COVID-19 active cases trajectories
COVID-19 disease spread hit the World really globally and also the field of mathematicians/ statisticians/ machine learning researchers and related. These experts want to help to understand for example future...continue reading.
