Making sense of the METS and ALTO XML standards
Last week I wrote a blog post where I analyzed one year of newspapers ads from 19th century newspapers. The data is made available by the national library of Luxembourg....continue reading.
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100 Days of Code – What Does it Look Like at Day 11
Stoltzmaniac Fans – It’s time for a #100DaysOfCode update. I have completed 11 days of the challenge. Let me tell you, it has been a blast and I have already...continue reading.
10 years of playback history on Last.FM: “Just sit back and listen”
Alright, seems like this is developing into a blog where I am increasingly investigating my own music listening habits.Recently, I’ve come across the analyzelastfm package by Sebastian Wolf. I used...continue reading.
Parallelize a For-Loop by Rewriting it as an Lapply Call
A commonly asked question in the R community is: How can I parallelize the following for-loop? The answer almost always involves rewriting the for (…) { … } loop into...continue reading.
Satellite imagery generation with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
What are GANs? Some time ago, I showed you how to create a simple Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet) for satellite imagery classification using Keras. ConvNets are not the only cool...continue reading.
Add a static pdf vignette to an R package
Most vignettes are built when a package is built, but there are occasions where you just want to include a pdf. For example when you want to include a paper....continue reading.
Roll Your Own Federal Government Shutdown-caused SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor in R
By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It’s having real impacts on...continue reading.
Who is the greatest finisher in soccer?
It’s relatively easy to find the player who has scored the most goals in the last 12 years (hello, Lionel Messi). But which professional football (soccer) player is the best...continue reading.
Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates
More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here’s a run-down of various 📦 updates: waffle The square pie chart generating waffle🔗 package now contains a nascent geom_waffle()...continue reading.
Linguistic Signals of Album Quality: A Predictive Analysis of Pitchfork Review Scores Using Quanteda
In this post we will return to the Pitchfork music review data, parts of which I’ve analyzed in previous posts. Our goal here will be to use text mining and...continue reading.
Rcpp, Camarón de la Isla and the Beauty of Maths
Desde que te estoy queriendo yo no sé lo que me pasa cualquier vereda que tomo siempre me lleva a tu casa(Y mira que mira y mira, Camarón de la...continue reading.
A Look Back on 2018: Part 1
Welcome to Reproducible Finance 2019! It’s a new year, a new beginning, the Earth has completed one more trip around the sun, and that means it’s time to look back...continue reading.
rlang 0.3.1
The patch release 0.3.1 of rlang is now on CRAN! This release polishes the rlang backtraces introduced in 0.3.0. See the NEWS for the complete set of changes. The main...continue reading.
Updated Review: jamovi User Interface to R
Last February I reviewed the jamovi menu-based front end to R. I’ve reviewed five more user interfaces since then, and have developed a more comprehensive template to make it easier...continue reading.
On the Road to 0.8.0 — Some Additional New Features Coming in the sergeant Package
It was probably not difficult to discern from my previous Drill-themed post that I’m fairly excited about the Apache Drill 1.15.0 release. I’ve rounded out most of the existing corners...continue reading.
dbplyr 1.3.0
We’re stoked to announce that dbplyr 1.3.0 is now available on CRAN. dbplyr is the database backend for dplyr, translating dplyr syntax into SQL. This is a minor release primarily...continue reading.
How do Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) learn? + Keras example
As with the other videos from our codecentric.ai Bootcamp (Random Forests, Neural Nets & Gradient Boosting), I am again sharing an English version of the script (plus R code) for...continue reading.
Loading “wide data” in Oracle Database using Oracle R Enterprise
Data sets come in many shapes and sizes. Some are tall and thin, others are short and wide. Some take on the form of dense data, a.k.a., single-record case, where...continue reading.
Analysis of South African Funds
Packages used in this post Disclaimer: I am no financial advisor, have never been and you should not take any of this analysis as investment advice. These thoughts are my...continue reading.
AzureR packages now on CRAN
The suite of AzureR packages for interfacing with Azure services from R is now available on CRAN. If you missed the earlier announcements, this means you can now use the...continue reading.
