Summer interns
We are excited to announce the first formal summer internship program at RStudio. The goal of our internship program is to enable RStudio employees to collaborate with current students (broadly...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: February 2018
Robotstxt Update – v0.6.0 on CRAN
I just got the news from the CRAN-team that the robotstxt version update 0.6.0 was accepted and now is available. The robotstxt package aims at working with robots.txt files from...continue reading.
2023 UPDATE: California Lottery – Scratchers – picking the winning tickets using math
2023 UPDATE: Full analysis in this spreadsheet has been updated to reflect the latest products offered by California Lottery. I’ve always been fascinated by how the lottery works. From a...continue reading.
Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced dataset
In this blog post, I am going to train a random forest on census data from the US to predict the probability that someone is looking for a job. To...continue reading.
Predicting job search by training a random forest on an unbalanced dataset
In this blog post, I am going to train a random forest on census data from the US to predict the probability that someone is looking for a job. To...continue reading.
R Interfaces to Python Keras Package
Keras is a popular Python package to do the prototyping for deep neural networks with multiple backends, including TensorFlow, CNTK, and Theano. Currently, there are two R interfaces that allow...continue reading.
Generating correlated random numbers with Python
A note on generating correlated random numbers with Python.continue reading.
Phylogeny and species traits predict bird detectability
It all started with this paper in Methods in Ecol. Evol. where we looked at detectability of many species. So we wanted to use life history traits to validate our...continue reading.
Phylogeny and species traits predict bird detectability
It all started with this paper in Methods in Ecol. Evol. where we looked at detectability of many species. So we wanted to use life history traits to validate our...continue reading.
Get Busy with Word Embeddings – An Introduction
This post provides an introduction to “word embeddings” or “word vectors”. Word embeddings are real-number vectors that represent words from a vocabulary, and have broad applications in the area of...continue reading.
How to Install and Include an R Package
We get a lot of questions about the usage of R libraries. The most common question is “can I use all the R libraries in your notebooks/consoles?”Yes! You can use...continue reading.
Analysing Digital Water Meter Data using the Tidyverse
Many water utilities are implementing or considering digital metering. This article describes analysing digital water meter data using the data science Tidyverse library. The post Analysing Digital Water Meter Data...continue reading.
2018-02 An ISCC-NBS Colour List for ‘roloc’
This report describes the development of a colour list and colour metric for the ‘roloc’ package that is based on the ISCC-NBS System of Color …continue reading.
The plots thicken
Data science tells a story through visualisation. Both story and visualisation rely on a good plot. And an abundance of those has evolved over time. Many have their own dedicated...continue reading.
Additional Thoughts on Estimating LGD with Proportional Odds Model
In my previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/modeling-lgd-with-proportional-odds-model), I’ve discussed how to use Proportional Odds Models in the LGD model development. In particular, I specifically mentioned that we would estimate a sub-model, which...continue reading.
How to Import a CSV to an R Notebook
Adding a file to your R notebook is a simple 2 step process.1. “Import” file to notebook session.This makes sure your dataset is isolated in one state so that it doesn’t change...continue reading.
Data transformation in #tidyverse style: package sjmisc updated #rstats
I’m pleased to announce an update for the sjmisc-package, which was just released on CRAN. Here I want to point out two important changes in the package. New default option...continue reading.
SPE 2018
The 2018 edition of the long-running Statistical Practice in Epidemiology using R (SPE) course will take place in Lyon, Fance on 20-24 June 2018 at the International Agency for Research...continue reading.
PVA: Publication Viability Analysis, round 3
A friend and colleague of mine, Péter Batáry has circulated news from Nature magazine about the EU freezing innovation funds to Bulgaria. The article had a figure about publication trends...continue reading.
PVA: Publication Viability Analysis, round 3
A friend and colleague of mine, Péter Batáry has circulated news from Nature magazine about the EU freezing innovation funds to Bulgaria. The article had a figure about publication trends...continue reading.
