Clustering with FactoMineR
(This article was first published on François Husson, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Here is a course with videos that present Hierarchical clustering and its complementary with principal...
View ArticleSaving High-Resolution ggplots: How to Preserve Semi-Transparency
(This article was first published on Easy Guides, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This article describes solutions for preserving semi-transparency when saving a ggplot2-based graphs into a high...
View ArticleSampling distribution of weighted Gini coefficient by @ellis2013nz
(This article was first published on Peter's stats stuff - R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Calculating Gini coefficientsStats NZ release a series of working papers, and a recent one caught my...
View ArticleThe package hdm for double selection inference with a simple example
(This article was first published on R – insightR, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)By Gabriel VasconcelosIn a late post I discussed the Double Selection (DS), a procedure for inference after...
View ArticleR Markdown exercises part 2
(This article was first published on R-exercises, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)INTRODUCTIONR Markdown is one of the most popular data science tools and is used to save and execute code, create...
View ArticleLet’s Have Some Sympathy For The Part-time R User
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)When I started writing about methods for better "parametric programming" interfaces for dplyr for Rdplyr...
View ArticleStan Weekly Roundup, 3 August 2017
(This article was first published on R – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)You’d almost think we were Europeans based on how much we’ve...
View ArticlePainting with Data
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)The accidental aRt tumblr (mentioned here a few years ago) continues to provide a steady stream of images that...
View ArticleYears as coloured bars
(This article was first published on R – What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I keep seeing years represented by coloured bars. First it was that demographic...
View ArticleMultiple imputation for continuous and categorical data
(This article was first published on François Husson, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)“The idea of imputation is both seductive and dangerous” (R.J.A Little & D.B. Rubin).Indeed, a predicted...
View ArticlePost-statistics: Lies, damned lies and data science patents
(This article was first published on Memo's Island, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)US Patent (Wikipedia)Statistics is so important field in our daily lives nowadays, the emerging field of 50...
View ArticleCan we believe in the imputations?
(This article was first published on François Husson, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)A popular approach to deal with missing values is to impute the data to get a complete dataset on which any...
View ArticleWho are the Swedish radio P1 summer guests? Answer via Wikidata
(This article was first published on Maëlle, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This week, a very promising new R blog was launched, namely the blog of Eric Persson a.k.a as expersso on Twitter. I...
View ArticleData visualization with googleVis exercises part 10
Timeline, Merging & Flash chartsThis is part 10 of our series and we are going to explore the features of some interesting types of charts that googleVis provides like Timeline, Flash and learn how...
View ArticlePlaying with the US Population
(This article was first published on AdventuresInData, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Here’s an app that illustrates how fertility and death rates impact the US age structure diagram over time....
View ArticleMore on “The Part-Time R-User”
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I have some more thoughts on the topic: “the part-time R-user.”I am thinking a bit more about the...
View ArticleGeospatial Queries using Pymongo in R
(This article was first published on mlampros, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Since I submitted the geojsonR package I was interested in running geospatial MongoDB queries using GeoJson data. I...
View ArticleElegant correlation table using xtable R package
(This article was first published on Easy Guides, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Correlation matrix analysis is an important method to find dependence between variables. Computing correlation...
View ArticleRadial kernel Support Vector Classifier
(This article was first published on R Programming – DataScience+, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Support vector machines are a famous and a very strong classification technique which does not...
View ArticleImplementing Parallel Processing in R
(This article was first published on R-posts.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)If something takes less time if done through parallel processing, why not do it and save time? Modern laptops and...
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