R Weekly 2023-W27 Targets validation workflow, %dofuture%, gmailr 2.0.0
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gmailr 2.0.0
We’re chuffed to announce the release of gmailr 2.0.0. gmailr exposes the Gmail API from R. You can install it from CRAN with: install.packages(“gmailr”) The main goal of version 2.0.0...continue reading.
Nurturing Growth: Advancing Your IT Career in the Appsilon Tech Team
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, IT professionals need to stay ahead of the curve to remain competitive and relevant in their careers. That’s why, at Appsilon, we do our...continue reading.
May 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
This will be my final R Views post offering my totally idiosyncratic selection of 40 CRAN packages. It has been a good run that began in August 2016. I would...continue reading.
Make your own *private* GPT with Python 🔒
Learn how to use the power of GPT to interact with your private documents. All using Python, all 100% private, all 100% free!continue reading.
R {targets}: How to Make Reproducible Pipelines for Data Science and Machine Learning
The R {targets} package is a pipeline tool for statistics, data science, and machine learning in R. The package allows you to write and maintain reproducible R workflows in pipelines...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W26 Table to Markdown, Model Sharing, and Rhub debugging
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Understanding LoRA with a minimal example
LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation) is a new technique for fine-tuning deep learning models that works by reducing the number of trainable parameters and enables efficient task switching. In this blog...continue reading.
GPT is Not a Shortcut to Learning Data Science
A couple of days ago, I wrote a blog post about how GPT writes bad Pandas code. If you’ve been reading at the blog for a while, you’ve probably realized...continue reading.
Several Key PerformanceAnalytics Functions From R Now In Python (special thanks to Vijay Vaidyanathan)
So, thanks to my former boss, and head of direct indexing at BNY Mellon, Vijay Vaidyanathan, and his Coursera course, … Continue reading →continue reading.
Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research – An Analysis in R, Python, and Julia
This analysis was co-authored by data scientists, Scott Fisher and Douglas Davila-Pestana. Mr. Fisher developed the Python code for the […] The post Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research –...continue reading.
GPT-2 from scratch with torch
Implementing a language model from scratch is, arguably, the best way to develop an accurate idea of how its engine works. Here, we use torch to code GPT-2, the immediate...continue reading.
What are Large Language Models? What are they not?
This is a high-level, introductory article about Large Language Models (LLMs), the core technology that enables the much-en-vogue chatbots as well as other Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. It is...continue reading.
More Terrible Pandas code from GPT
A few days ago, I was writing some code for a new machine learning course that I’m building, and I had a somewhat tricky problem to solve. As I’ve said...continue reading.
Data4Good Explores Visualizing Freshwater Resources on a Global Scale
“Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.” The irony of the ancient Mariner’s rime resonates more clearly these days as potable water, on which we rely so much,...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W25 slice(), columns, Bayes
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team...continue reading.
safetensors 0.1.0
Announcing safetensors, a new R package allowing for reading and writing files in the safetensors format.continue reading.
Automating End-to-End Cypress Tests in Rhino: A Guide to Seamless UI Testing for Shiny Apps
No one wants to break an application! And part of the process of developing a quality R/Shiny dashboard is making sure that new features or bug fixes do not create...continue reading.
