First Accra R-User meetup a success!
(This article was first published on R – Data Science Africa, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Accra’s inaugural R-session took place on Wednesday 13 April, in the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School...
View ArticleWhat’s in Pasta Carbonara?
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Apparently, people have strong feelings about how pasta carbonara should be made. A 45-second French video showing...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: The time-travelling jukebox
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)If you're looking for some musical nostalgia this weekend, look no further than How Music Taste Evolved, from...
View ArticlesatRday in Monterrey
(This article was first published on En El Margen - R-English, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I recently volunteered to host a satRday event in Monterrey through the email form and was surprised...
View ArticleUpdate on Attilio Meucci’s The Checklist and ARPM Bootcamp / Code
(This article was first published on Return and Risk, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Last week I organised for Attilio Meucci to give a webinar to members of CFA Singapore and NUS Risk...
View ArticleIP string to integer conversion with Rcpp
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)IP address conversionAt work I recently had to match data on IP addresses and some fuzzy timestamp...
View ArticleData visualization in social sciences – what’s new in the sjPlot-package?...
(This article was first published on R – Strenge Jacke!, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)My sjPlot package just reached version 2.0 and got many updates during the couple of last months. The focus...
View ArticleRTutor: Free Trade Agreements
(This article was first published on Economics and R - R posts, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)There is quite some sceptisim towards TTIP, the currently negotiated free trade agreement between...
View ArticleModeling data with functional programming – State based systems
(This article was first published on R – Cartesian Faith, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I’m pleased to announce the availability of my latest chapter on state based systems for my book “Modeling...
View ArticleUser Groups and R Awareness
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)by Joseph RickertFor quite a few years now we have attempted to maintain the Revolution Analytics' Local R User...
View ArticleABC random forests for Bayesian parameter inference
(This article was first published on R – Xi'an's Og, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Before leaving Helsinki, we arXived [from the Air France lounge!] the paper Jean-Michel presented on Monday at...
View ArticleOpenCPU release 1.6
(This article was first published on OpenCPU, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Following a few weeks of testing, OpenCPU 1.6 has been released. OpenCPU is a production-ready system for embedded...
View ArticleAccessing Dataframe Objects Exercises
(This article was first published on R-exercises, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The attach() function alters the R environment search path by making dataframe variables into global variables....
View ArticleReminiscences of R in Finance 2016
(This article was first published on R language – Portfolio Probe, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)When I announced R in Finance 2016 I talked about 2 days of conference and 50 speakers. I missed...
View ArticleIntroduction to R for Data Science :: Session 5 [Strings in R]
(This article was first published on The Exactness of Mind, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Welcome to Introduction to R for Data Science Session 5: Structuring Data: String manipulation in R....
View Articlethe random variable that was always less than its mean…
(This article was first published on R – Xi'an's Og, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Although this is far from a paradox when realising why the phenomenon occurred, it took me a few lines to...
View ArticleVisualizing Bootrapped Stepwise Regression in R using Plotly
(This article was first published on R – Modern Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)We all have used stepwise regression at some point. Stepwise regression is known to be sensitive to initial...
View ArticleSolving Math Puzzles with data.tree
(This article was first published on R – ipub, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I got a note from Karim Lahrichi, who even thinks about math when he’s supposed to be drinking beer. The bar puzzle...
View ArticlesatRday Event in Cape Town
(This article was first published on R – Data Science Africa, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This blog post was first published on EXEGETIC ANALYTICS‘s blog and kindly re-posted on Data Science...
View ArticleOn ranger respect.unordered.factors
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)It is often said that “R it its packages.”One package of interest is ranger a fast parallel C++...
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