Statistical uncertainty with R and pdqr
CRAN has accepted my ‘pdqr’ package. Here are important examples of how it can be used to describe and evaluate statistical uncertainty. I am glad to announce that my latest,...continue reading.
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R Weekly 2019-45 {renv}, {tvthemes}
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2019-11-11 This week’s release was curated by Jon Calder, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. renv: Project Environments...continue reading.
A comparison of methods for predicting clothing classes using the Fashion MNIST dataset in RStudio and Python (Part 1)
Florianne Verkroost is a PhD candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. With a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her...continue reading.
A clear explanation of the Pandas index
This tutorial will clearly explain the Pandas index … what Pandas DataFrame indexes are, and how they work. In the tutorial, I’ll explain what the index is, with clear pictures...continue reading.
Dangerous streets of Bratislava! Animated maps using open data in R
At the work recently, I wanted to make some interesting start-up pitch (presentation) ready animated visualization and got some first experience with spatial data (e.g. polygons). I enjoyed working with...continue reading.
future 1.15.0 – Lazy Futures are Now Launched if Queried
No dogs were harmed while making this release future 1.15.0 is now on CRAN, accompanied by a recent, related update of future.callr 0.5.0. The main update is a change to...continue reading.
haven 2.2.0
We’re delighted to announce that haven 2.2.0 is now on CRAN. haven enables R to read and write various data formats used by other statistical packages by wrapping the ReadStat...continue reading.
Building Tidy Tools
The class is taught by Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio.continue reading.
Intrumental variable regression and machine learning
Just like the question “what’s the difference between machine learning and statistics” has shed a lot of ink (since at least Breiman (2001)), the same question but where statistics is...continue reading.
Intrumental variable regression and machine learning
Just like the question “what’s the difference between machine learning and statistics” has shed a lot of ink (since at least Breiman (2001)), the same question but where statistics is...continue reading.
Property based testing for scientific code in Python
Automated software testing starts with the often annoying and time-consuming process of writing tests. But no matter how annoying it … Read More →continue reading.
Gold-Mining Week 10 (2019)
Week 10 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 10 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.continue reading.
New R Support in Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning has added support for the R language, it was announced at the Ignite conference in Orlando this week. A new R package azuremlsdk (available to install from...continue reading.
testthat 2.3.0
We’re pumped to announce that testthat 2.3.0 is now available on CRAN! testthat makes it easy to turn your existing informal tests into formal automated tests that you can rerun...continue reading.
Package Manager 1.1.0 – No Interruptions
No interruptions. That was our team’s goal for RStudio Package Manager 1.1.0 – we set out to make R package installation fast enough that it wouldn’t interrupt your work. More...continue reading.
Package Manager 1.1.0 – No Interruptions
No interruptions. That was our team’s goal for RStudio Package Manager 1.1.0 – we set out to make R package installation fast enough that it wouldn’t interrupt your work. More...continue reading.
Citizen data science suffers from inflated expectations
After recently attending the EARL conference in London, Martin Veitch has written for IDG Connect about how companies that best exploit data science will be well positioned to make smarter...continue reading.
Teach Yourself R in 24 Hours
With the open source R programming language and its immense library of packages, you can perform virtually any data analysis task. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or...continue reading.
Combining Price Elasticities and Sales Forecastings for Sales Improvement
How can you adjust your prices to meet your sales quota better? By combining sales forecasts and price elasticity estimations, you can make recommendations to increase the profit. In this...continue reading.
Tidyverse dev day 2020
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be holding our next tidyverse developer day on the Friday following rstudio::conf in San Francisco. The event will take place from 9:00 AM –...continue reading.
