Don’t teach students the hard way first
Imagine you were going to a party in an unfamiliar area, and asked the host for directions to their house. It takes you thirty minutes to get there, on a...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: September 2017
Regression Analysis — What You Should’ve Been Taught But Weren’t, and Were Taught But Shouldn’t Have Been
The above title was the title of my talk this evening at our Bay Area R Users Group. I had been asked to talk about my new book, and I...continue reading.
From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.
Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin – Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I...continue reading.
Why I use R for Data Science – An Ode to R
Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to justify using R over Python. And while I do use Python for running scripts in production, I am much...continue reading.
Putting some of my Python knowledge to a good use: a Reddit reading bot!
One of the perks of knowing a programming language is that you can build your own tools and applications. Depending on what you need, it may even be a fast...continue reading.
Redesigning Data Visualization Atrocities #1
Hello all, for a while I’ve been wanting to diversify the content on my blog to include general data science and visualization samples. I finally got a burst of motivation...continue reading.
Model Non-Negative Numeric Outcomes with Zeros
As mentioned in the previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/model-operational-loss-directly-with-tweedie-glm/), we often need to model non-negative numeric outcomes with zeros in the operational loss model development. Tweedie GLM provides a convenient interface to...continue reading.
Ementa — Matéria de Análise de Dados
Esta matéria será bem diferente das outras matérias de estatística e análise de dados que vocês utilizaram ou viram no passado. Aqui, nós vamos usar vários meios de aprendizagem para...continue reading.
Brazilian Yield Curve
The latest version of GetTDData offers function get.yield.curve to download the current Brazilian yield curve directly from Anbima. The yield curve is a financial tool that shows how, based on...continue reading.
ggpubr: Create Easily Publication Ready Plots
The ggpubr R package facilitates the creation of beautiful ggplot2-based graphs for researcher with non-advanced programming backgrounds. The current material presents a collection of articles for simply creating and customizing...continue reading.
community.rstudio.com
We’re excited to announce community.rstudio.com, a new site for discussions about RStudio, the tidyverse, and friends. To begin with, we’re focussing on three main areas: The Tidyverse Shiny RStudio IDE...continue reading.
Announcing lime – Explaining the predictions of black-box models
I’m very pleased to announce that lime has been released on CRAN. lime is an implementation of the model prediction explanation framework described in “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining...continue reading.
RStudio community
We’re very excited to announce the new community.rstudio.com — this is a great place to ask any questions you might have about the tidyverse. Read more on the RStudio blog.continue reading.
RStudio v1.1 – The Little Things
Today, we’re concluding our blog series on new features in RStudio 1.1. If you’d like to try these features out for yourself, you can download a preview release of RStudio...continue reading.
Mathpy 0.3.0 Released!
I am excited to announce the release of mathpy 0.3.0! This release adds a ton of Excel UDFs including many new statistical and number-theoretic functions, several random number generators and…...continue reading.
Building rich analytic web apps has never been easier
We’re entering a golden age of the “analytics developer.” Cutting edge companies like AirBnB, Apple, and S&P are no longer buying off-the-shelf BI software. Instead, they build their own targeted...continue reading.
Welcome to my page!
I’m Shirin (Elsinghorst, born Glander), a biologist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. During my PhD and Postdoc I worked with Next Generation Sequencing data. However, I then chose to become...continue reading.
Shiny Server (Pro) 1.5.4
Shiny Server 1.5.4.869 and Shiny Server Pro 1.5.4.872 are now available. Both the new Shiny Server and Shiny Server Pro releases include bug fixes and enhancements, and we recommend upgrading...continue reading.
Moving my blog to blogdown
It’s been a long time coming but I finally moved my blog from Jekyll/Bootstrap on Github pages to blogdown, Hugo and Netlify! Moreover, I also now have my own domain...continue reading.
Groundwater levels across US affected by Mexico earthquake
What happened? A magnitude 8.1 earthquake was measured in the Pacific region offshore Chiapas, Mexico at 04:49:21 UTC on September 8th 2017. Working in the Water Mission Area for the...continue reading.
