Jobs for “Data Science” Up 7-fold, for “Statistician” Down by Half
(This article was first published on R – r4stats.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that jobs for statisticians will grow by 34% between 2014 and 2024....
View ArticleFSelectorRcpp on CRAN
(This article was first published on http://r-addict.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)FSelectorRcpp– Rcpp (free of Java/Weka) implementation of FSelector entropy-based feature selection...
View ArticleHow to choose a project to practice data science
(This article was first published on r-bloggers – SHARP SIGHT LABS, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Here at Sharp Sight, I’ve derided the “jump in and build something” method of learning data...
View ArticleData Visualization – Part 1
(This article was first published on R-Projects – Stoltzmaniac, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Introduction to Data Visualization – Theory, R & ggplot2The topic of data visualization is very...
View Article10 Million Dots: Mapping European Population
(This article was first published on R – Spatial.ly, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Dot density maps are an increasingly popular way of showing population datasets. The technique has its...
View ArticleThe Tidyverse Curse
(This article was first published on R – r4stats.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I’ve just finished a major overhaul to my widely read article, Why R is Hard to Learn. It describes the main...
View ArticleMake the [R] Kenntnis-Tage 2017 your stage
(This article was first published on eoda english R news, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)At the [R] Kenntnis-Tage 2017 on November 8 and 9, 2017 you will get the chance to benefit not only from...
View ArticleSurvminer Cheatsheet to Create Easily Survival Plots
We recently released the survminer verion 0.3, which includes many new features to help in visualizing and sumarizingsurvival analysis results.In this article, we present a cheatsheet for survminer,...
View ArticleAnnouncing R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)by Shahrokh Mortazavi, Partner PM, Visual Studio Cloud Platform Tools at MicrosoftI’m delighted to announce the...
View ArticleQR Decomposition with the Gram-Schmidt Algorithm
(This article was first published on R – Aaron Schlegel, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)QR decomposition is another technique for decomposing a matrix into a form that is easier to work with in...
View ArticleRApiDatetime 0.0.1
(This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Very happy to announce a new package of mine is now up on the CRAN repository network:...
View ArticleLesser known purrr tricks
purrr is package that extends R’s functional programming capabilities. It brings a lot of new stuff to the table and in this post I show you some of the most useful (at least to me) functions included...
View ArticleLearning Club 16: Genetic Algorithms
Some time ago I published a blog post with the title Know your data structures!. In this previous post I explained how I improved the running time of a genetic algorithm. I promised to go more into...
View ArticleHacking statistics or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Calculus and Love...
(This article was first published on R-exercises, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Statistics are often taught in school by and for people who like Mathematics. As a consequence, in those class...
View ArticleMy Presentation at useR! 2017, Etc.
(This article was first published on Mad (Data) Scientist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I gave a talk titled, “Parallel Computation in R: What We Want, and How We (Might) Get It,” at last...
View Articlesweep: Extending broom for time series forecasting
(This article was first published on business-science.io - Articles, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)We’re pleased to introduce a new package, sweep, now on CRAN! Think of it like broom for the...
View ArticleSummer of data science 1: Genomic prediction machines #SoDS17
(This article was first published on R – On unicorns and genes, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Genetics is a data science, right?One of my Summer of data science learning points was to play with...
View ArticleHow to Scrape Images from Google
(This article was first published on Florian Teschner, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)In my last post, I tried to train a deep neural net to detect brand logos in images. For that, I downloaded...
View ArticleUsing simulation for power analysis: an example based on a stepped wedge...
(This article was first published on ouR data generation, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Simulation can be super helpful for estimating power or sample size requirements when the study design is...
View ArticleA tour of the tibble package
(This article was first published on Higher Order Functions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Dataframes are used in R to hold tabular data. Think of the prototypical spreadsheet or database...
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