Diversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)One of the greatest things about the R community is its diversity. This is largely thanks to organizations like...
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(This article was first published on Florian Teschner, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)In my last posts (here and here) I explored how to use embeddings to represent categorical variables....
View ArticleIs 10,000 Cells Big?
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Trick question: is a 10,000 cell numeric data.frame big or small?In the era of "big data" 10,000 cells is...
View Articlejamovi for R: Easy but Controversial
(This article was first published on R – r4stats.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)jamovi is software that aims to simplify two aspects of using R. It offers a point-and-click graphical user...
View ArticleBH 1.66.0-1
(This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)A new release of the BH package arrived on CRAN a little earlier: now at release 1.66.0-1. BH...
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TweetMathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world (Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematician)From time to time I have a look to some of my previous posts: it’s like seeing...
View ArticleRegularized Greedy Forest in R
(This article was first published on mlampros, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This blog post is about my newly released RGF package (the blog post consists mainly of the package Vignette). The...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2018 rOpenSci Research Fellows!
(This article was first published on rOpenSci - open tools for open science, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)rOpenSci’s mission is to enable and support a thriving community of researchers who...
View ArticleDeep learning at rstudio::conf 2018
(This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Two weeks ago, rstudio::conf 2018 was held in San Diego. We had 1,100 people attend the sold-out event. In this post,...
View ArticleEdwina Dunn to keynote at enterprise focused R language conference
(This article was first published on Mango Solutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)MEDIA RELEASE14 February 2018Mango Solutions are delighted to announce that loyalty programme pioneer and data...
View ArticleWhat is the best online dating site and the best way to use it?
(This article was first published on DanielPocock.com - r-project, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Somebody recently shared this with me, this is what happens when you attempt to access Parship,...
View ArticleEasily Make Multi-tabbed .xlsx Files with openxlsx
(This article was first published on R – TRinker's R Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This is a quick script showing how to make multi-tabbed .xlsx files. I recently had the need to do this...
View ArticleUpdate on My Collaboration with the Census Bureau
(This article was first published on R – AriLamstein.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)In November I announced a new collaboration with the Census Bureau around data science training. Today I’d...
View ArticleDiversity scholarships for upcoming R conferences
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)One of the greatest things about the R community is its diversity. This is largely thanks to organizations like...
View Articletfestimators – Package: Embeddings for Categorical Variables
(This article was first published on Florian Teschner, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)In my last posts (here and here) I explored how to use embeddings to represent categorical variables....
View ArticleIs 10,000 Cells Big?
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Trick question: is a 10,000 cell numeric data.frame big or small?In the era of "big data" 10,000 cells is...
View Articleshinyalert: Easily create pretty popup messages (modals) in Shiny
(This article was first published on Dean Attali's R Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)A brand new shiny package has entered the world yesterday: shinyalert. It does only one thing, but does...
View ArticleWhat does Microsoft do with R?
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I was genuinely chuffed to get a shout-out in the most recent episode of Not So Standard Deviations, the awesome...
View Articleweakly informative reparameterisations
(This article was first published on R – Xi'an's Og, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Our paper, weakly informative reparameterisations of location-scale mixtures, with Kaniav Kamary and Kate Lee,...
View ArticleSupport for hOCR and Tesseract 4 in R
(This article was first published on rOpenSci - open tools for open science, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Earlier this month we released a new version of the tesseract package to CRAN. This...
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