Version 2.2.1 Released
It has been a while since any kind of significant update has been released for the ggetern library, and the other day a minor update was submitted to CRAN, which...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: July 2017
Parameter tuning with mlrHyperopt
Hyperparameter tuning with mlr is rich in options as they are multiple tuning methods: Simple Random Search Grid Search Iterated F-Racing (via irace) Sequential Model-Based Optimization (via mlrMBO) Also the...continue reading.
JAGS 4.3.0 is released
The source tarball for JAGS 4.3.0 is now available from Sourceforge. Binary distributions will be available later. See the updated manual for details of the features in the new version....continue reading.
Slides on Text Preprocessing and Feature Extraction for Quantitative Text Analysis
I’ve recently given a small workshop on Text Preprocessing and Feature Extraction for Quantitative Text Analysis with Python at the … Read More →continue reading.
Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016
R Documentation at Stack Overflow One of the nice features of R is the ease of data acquisition. I am now working on the examples of data acquisition form different...continue reading.
Ecosystems chapter added to “Empirical software engineering using R”
The Ecosystems chapter of my Empirical software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). I don’t seem to be able to get away from rewriting everything,...continue reading.
Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016
As an example of Eurostat data usage I chose to show the dynamics of NEET (Young people neither in employment nor in education and training) in European countries. The example...continue reading.
Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth
In the modern history, the world has seen unprecedented decrease in human mortality – the result of the Demographic Transition. Initially, the improvements occurred only in the most developed societies,...continue reading.
Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth
In the modern history, the world has seen unprecedented decrease in human mortality – the result of the Demographic Transition. Initially, the improvements occurred only in the most developed societies,...continue reading.
R Weekly Bulletin Vol – XIII
This week’s R bulletin covers some interesting plotting methods. Hope you like this R weekly bulletin. Enjoy reading! Shortcut Keys 1. Source a file – Ctrl+Shift+O 2. Source the current...continue reading.
haven 1.1.0
I’m pleased to announce the release of haven 1.1.0. Haven is designed to faciliate the transfer of data between R and SAS, SPSS, and Stata. It makes it easy to...continue reading.
How to launch your data science career (with Python)
Have you been thinking about a career in data science, but have no idea how to get started? Data School is here to help you find your way!continue reading.
How to launch your data science career (with Python)
Have you been thinking about a career in data science, but have no idea how to get started? Data School is here to help you find your way!continue reading.
Registration open for rstudio::conf 2018!
RStudio is very excited to announce that rstudio::conf 2018 is open for registration! rstudio::conf, the conference on all things R and RStudio, will take place February 2 and 3, 2018...continue reading.
Using caret
A caret call I frequently use. Given that x is training data and y response, library(doMC) and registerDoMC allow me to use more than one processor repeatedcv: if more than...continue reading.
Introducing learnr
We’re pleased to introduce the learnr package, now available on CRAN. The learnr package makes it easy to turn any R Markdown document into an interactive tutorial. Tutorials consist of...continue reading.
Useful dplyr Functions (w/examples)
The R package dplyr is an extremely useful resource for data cleaning, manipulation, visualisation and analysis. It contains a large number of very useful functions and is, without doubt, one...continue reading.
Text Mining of Stack Overflow Questions
Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. This week, my fellow Stack Overflow data scientist David Robinson and I are happy to announce the publication of our book Text Mining...continue reading.
The Role of Small Data and Vacation Recap Example
Wikipedia defines small data ‘small’ enough for human comprehension but then it goes further by qualifying data in a volume and format that makes it accessible, informative and actionable. I...continue reading.
