Customizable Dash front-ends for word2vec and NLP backends
“When is Mom’s birthday?” “Remind me to pick up flowers and a cake this afternoon.” “How do I get to the nearest flower shop?” “Find the best bakeries near me.”...continue reading.
Category: Rstat
Le Monde puzzle [#1139]
A weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle that reminded me of an earlier one (but was too lazy to check): The integer n=36 enjoys the property that all the differences between...continue reading.
random generators produce ties
“…an essential part of understanding how many ties these RNGs produce is to understand how many ties one expects in 32-bit integer arithmetic.” A sort of a birthday-problem paper for...continue reading.
COVID-19 Risk Heat Maps with Location Data, Apache Arrow, Markov Chain Modeling, and R Shiny
This is the second of two articles about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions chosen...continue reading.
Why Dash uses the MIT license (and NOT a copyleft GPL license)
Is GPL software overly restrictive? Software licensing can be a personal or philosophical choice, and we’re not looking to incite controversy. But, we do want to examine why more and...continue reading.
Effective reproduction number estimation
We discuss the estimation with R of the time-varying effective reproduction number during an infectious disease outbreak such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Using a single simulated outbreak we compare the...continue reading.
Forecasting Best Practices, from Microsoft
Microsoft has released a GitHub repository to share best practices for time series forecasting. From the repo: Time series forecasting is one of the most important topics in data science....continue reading.
Who is The Average Customer?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear...continue reading.
Who is The Average Customer?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear...continue reading.
AI for Good: Fighting COVID-19 with Data Science
This is the first of two blog posts about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions...continue reading.
Appsilon’s shiny.info Development and Testing Shiny Package Released on CRAN
Appsilon’s open source shiny.info package just received a major update and is now available on CRAN. A great solution for development and testing, shiny.info allows for displaying diagnostic information from...continue reading.
Online R, Python & Git Training!
Hey there! Here at Jumping Rivers, we have the capabilities to teach you R, Python & Git virtually. For the last three years we have been running online training courses...continue reading.
Flatten the COVID-19 curve
Abstract: We discuss why the message of flattening the COVID-19 curve is right, but why some of the visualizations used to show the effect are wrong: Reducing the basic reproduction...continue reading.
Micromorts – how much risk of death would you accept?
A micromort is one in a million chance of dying – it is equivalent to tossing 20 coins and getting 20 headscontinue reading.
#SatRdayNCL is back – don’t miss out
We are very pleased to announce, as you might already be aware, that SatRday is coming back to Newcastle upon Tyne on 4th April 2020. SatRdays are one-day, non-profit, community...continue reading.
chain of lynx and drove of hares
A paper (and an introduction to the paper) in Nature this week seems to have made progress on the existence of indefinite predator-prey cyles. As in the lynx/hare dataset available...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1132]
A vaguely arithmetic challenge as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: Given two boxes containing x and 2N+1-x balls respectively. If one proceeds by repeatedly transferring half the balls from...continue reading.
Dude: Where are my Cats? RStudio::Conf 2020
Dude: Where are my Cats? RStudio::Conf 2020 It may not have been the start to the conference that we planned… The post Dude: Where are my Cats? RStudio::Conf 2020 appeared...continue reading.
Le Monde puzzle [#1130]
A two-player game as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: Abishag and Caleb fill in alternance a row of N boxes in a row by picking one then two then...continue reading.
Monsters
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’Our very street todayBurns like a red coal carpetMad bull lost its way(Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones) After following this easy tutorial, you will be...continue reading.
