Le Monde puzzle [#1110]
A low-key sorting problem as Le Monde current mathematical puzzle: If the numbers from 1 to 67 are randomly permuted and if the sorting algorithm consists in picking a number...continue reading.
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Develop Performance Benchmark with GRNN
It has been mentioned in https://github.com/statcompute/GRnnet that GRNN is an ideal approach employed to develop performance benchmarks for a variety of risk models. People might wonder what the purpose of...continue reading.
Twitter “Account Analysis” in R
This past week @propublica linked to a really spiffy resource for getting an overview of a Twitter user’s profile and activity called accountanalysis. It has a beautiful interface that works...continue reading.
RSwitch 1.5.0 Release Now Also Corrals RStudio Server Connections
RSwitch is a macOS menubar application that works on macOS 10.14+ and provides handy shortcuts for developing with R on macOS. Version 1.5.0 brings a reorganized menu system and the...continue reading.
September 2019 Democratic Debates Added to {ggchicklet}
The latest round of the 2020 Democratic debates is over and the data from all the 2019 editions of the debates have been added to {ggchicklet}. The structure of the...continue reading.
Tell Me a Story: How to Generate Textual Explanations for Predictive Models
TL;DR: If you are going to explain predictions for a black box model you should combine statistical charts with natural language descriptions. This combination is more powerful than SHAP/LIME/PDP/Break Down...continue reading.
Curiosity + Data + Customer Segmentation = Goodies
TL; DR I used a Kaggle database to show you how to separate your customers into distinct groups based on their purchase behavior. With this method, store managers can customize...continue reading.
Should you use “dot notation” or “bracket notation” with pandas?
There are two ways to select a Series from a DataFrame: “dot notation” and “bracket notation” (square brackets). Find out which one you should use, and why!continue reading.
tidyr 1.0.0
I’m very excited to announce the release of tidyr 1.0.0! tidyr provides a set of tools for transforming data frames to and from tidy data, where each variable is a...continue reading.
Survival analysis with strata, clusters, frailties and competing risks in in Finalfit
Background In healthcare, we deal with a lot of binary outcomes. Death yes/no, disease recurrence yes/no, for instance. These outcomes are often easily analysed using binary logistic regression via finalfit(). When...continue reading.
A DevOps Process for Deploying R to Production
I’ve been at the EARL Conference in London this week, and as always it’s been inspiring to see so many examples of R being used in production at companies like...continue reading.
How Data Lakes Unlock the Value of IoT
When technical capabilities and company culture combine, IoT-fed data lakes become a powerful brain at the heart of the business Internet-enabled devices have led to an explosion in the growth...continue reading.
Gold-Mining Week 2 (2019)
Welcome to the 2019 Fantasy Football Season! Week 2 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 2 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.continue reading.
Call for Help: Lead R/Shiny Developer
Dear Fantasy Football Analytics Community, In 2013, we at Fantasy Football Analytics released web apps to help people make better decisions in fantasy football based on the wisdom of the[…]...continue reading.
R/Medicine 2019 Workshops
R/Medicine 2019 kicked off on Thursday with two outstanding workshops. It was difficult to choose between the two, but fortunately both presenters developed rich sets of materials that are available...continue reading.
R puzzle
Can you guess the meaning of the following R code “?”=`u\164f8ToI\x6Et`;’!’=prod;!{ y<-xtabs(~?readLines())}%in%{ z<-y[1]}&z>T##&[]>~48bEfILpu If not (!), the explanation is provided in Robin’s answer to a codegolf …continue reading.
Dynamic UI Elements in Shiny
Shiny enables its users to quickly create a fixed UI with code. Although simple, this can prove to be quite limiting. Applying the principles of reactivity to the UI part...continue reading.
R comes to oil + gas
Tools capable of producing rich analytic reports and data visualizations are a valuable resource for decision makers in any field. Dash is an open-sourced based framework for building dynamic web...continue reading.
Hadley is a smash hit at LondonR
We were thrilled to host Hadley Wickham who delivered, as ever, a funny and engaging talk to a packed house at LondonR in August. In fact, to give you an...continue reading.
Extracting Sydney transport data from Twitter
The @sydstats Twitter account uses this code base, and data from the Transport for NSW Open Data API to publish insights into delays on the Sydney Trains network. Each tweet...continue reading.
