Maquereaux et départements
Cette semaine, l’énigme “classique” de FiveThirtyEight (qu’on peut retrouver ici) demande de trouver des mots n’ayant aucune lettre en commun avec un et seul état américain. Par exemple, “mackerel” (le...continue reading.
R News from another blog for R community
Create and convert tibbles
Tibbles are the modern reimagination of data frames and share many commonalities with their ancestors. The most visible difference is how tibble contents are printed to the console. Tibbles are...continue reading.
a new Monty Hall riddle
The Riddler was sort of feeling the rising boredom of being under lockdown when proposing the following variant to the Monty Hall puzzle: There are zero to three goats, with...continue reading.
Tune XGBoost with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday beach volleyball
Learn how to tune hyperparameters for an XGBoost classification model to predict wins and losses.continue reading.
Tune XGBoost with tidymodels and #TidyTuesday beach volleyball
Lately I’ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, starting from just getting started. Today’s screencast explores a more advanced topic in how to tune an XGBoost...continue reading.
Modern Rule-Based Models
Machine learning models come in many shapes and sizes. While deep learning models currently have the lion’s share of coverage, there are many other classes of models that are effective...continue reading.
rules 0.0.1
We are happy to announce the release of the rules package on CRAN. rules is another “parsnip-adjacent” package that enables a specific class of models within the tidymodels infrastructure. rules...continue reading.
Get your (free) ticket for e-Rum2020 virtual conference
Registrations to e-Rum2020 virtual conference are now open, and there are still a couple of days to register (and submit!) to the CovidR pre-conference event. The post Get your (free)...continue reading.
Power BI Measures in slicer
Power BI measures are mainly used to show and visualize data, that can be measured. But from time to time, end-users will want to have measures to be easily selected...continue reading.
An R View into Epidemiology
If you have been tracking the numbers for the COVID-19 pandemic, you must have looked at dozens of models and tried to make some comparisons. Even under the best of...continue reading.
Mining R 4.0.0 Changelog for Nuggets of Gold: #1 stopifnot()
R 4.0.0 has been out for a while, now, and — apart from a case where merge() was slower than dirt — it’s been really stable for at least me...continue reading.
Why R? Webinar – Scalable Automatic Machine Learning in R with H2O AutoML
May 21st (8:00pm UTC+2) will bring next fascinating webinar at Why R? Foundation YouTube channel. We will have a pleasure to host Dr. Erin Ledell from H2O.ai. The topic of...continue reading.
Driving Real, Lasting Value with Serious Data Science
Data science is now a hot area of investment for many organizations. Countless blogs, articles, and analyst reports emphasize that effective data science is critical for competitive advantage, and many...continue reading.
Driving Real, Lasting Value with Serious Data Science
Data science is now a hot area of investment for many organizations. Countless blogs, articles, and analyst reports emphasize that effective data science is critical for competitive advantage, and many...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1144]
The weekly puzzle from Le Monde is again using 2020 but not R! Two teams involve a prime total number m of participants, with each player getting between 0 and...continue reading.
Build a data frame from vectors
Tabular data is the most common format used by data scientists. In R, tables are respresented through data frames. They can be inspected by printing them to the console. Understand...continue reading.
FOCI: a new method for feature selection
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools...continue reading.
FOCI: a new method for feature selection
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, not for lack of material but just having too long a TO DO list. I’ve added some important features to my regtools...continue reading.
Nullable Optional Arguments in Rcpp functions
Introduction Often we need to have optional arguments in R of Rcpp functions with default values. Sometimes, the default value for the optional parameters is set to be NULL. Rcpp...continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-20 drake & ML, presser, xaringanthemer
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-05-18 This week’s release was curated by Maëlle Salmon, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors. How to...continue reading.
