RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses
This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release. Beautiful code themes and rainbow parentheses, a tale as old as…well...continue reading.
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asymmetric information
The Riddler of 16 October had the following puzzle: Take a real number θ uniformly distributed over (0,100). Among three players, the winner is whoever guessed the closest price without...continue reading.
Frank Harrell – Controversies in Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Frank Harrell, a professor and a founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt...continue reading.
Whitepaper: KI-Weiterbildung für Führungskräfte
Im Whitepaper “Künstliche Intelligenz Weiterbildung für Führungskräfte” zeigen wir Ihnen anhand der Case Study „AI Basics for Executives“ beispielhaft, wie eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines ausdifferenzierten Weiterbildungskonzepts aussehen kann. Hierbei wurde,...continue reading.
Upcoming Why R? and X-Europe Webinars in November
Why R? Webinars are back after successful launch of Why R? 2020 Conference! All videos from the past series and from the recently finished conference can be watched on our...continue reading.
Cleaning up my R packages and config files
Today was an unusual day at work given the US Elections. This meant that I had fewer meetings than what I’ve had lately. Earlier in the day I noticed an...continue reading.
sampling w/o replacement except when replacing
Another Riddle(r), considering a box with M myrtle balls and D dandelion balls. Drawing balls without replacement while they stay of the same color as the initial draw, else put...continue reading.
Frank Harrell – Controversies in Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Frank Harrell, a professor and a founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt...continue reading.
Satellite Image Analysis FAQ: Can I Use R to Analyze Satellite Images?
Analyzing satellite images isn’t exclusively reserved for governments and large corporations. At Appsilon, we’ve spent countless hours working and even writing about analyzing these types of images. As the quality, quantity,...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R functions – R Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry and extensively popularized in the past 60 years. It’s main purpose it more than obvious, in addition the...continue reading.
torch for tabular data
How not to die from poisonous mushrooms. Also: How to use torch for deep learning on tabular data, including a mix of categorical and numerical features.continue reading.
Biologically Plausible Fake Survival Data
In two recent posts, one on the Disease Progression Model and the other on Fake Data, I highlighted some of R’s tools for simulating data that exhibit desired correlations and...continue reading.
How to Use Pandas Unique to Get Unique Values
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the Pandas unique technique to get unique values from Pandas data. I’ll explain the syntax, including how to use the two...continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-44 {emphatic}, American political data, data science teaching
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-11-01 How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Tony ElHabr, with help from...continue reading.
testthat 3.0.0
We’re tickled pink to announce the release of testthat 3.0.0. testthat makes it easy to turn your existing informal tests into formal, automated tests that you can rerun quickly and...continue reading.
Roger Bivand – Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R – retrospect and prospect
A month ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. We had an pleasure to host Roger Bivand, a professor at Norwegian School of Economics and Member of R Foundation. This...continue reading.
Little useless-useful R function – Full moon finder
Another one from the series [1,2,3,4] of useless functions. This one is particularly useful when you have overcast weather. And you are feeling moody, feel slightly off-balance and that causes...continue reading.
How to Use the Pandas Assign Method to Add New Variables
In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to use the Pandas assign method to add new variables to a Pandas dataframe. In this tutorial, I’ll explain what the assign method does...continue reading.
2020 Table Contest Deadline Extended
The original deadline for the 2020 Table Contest was scheduled for October 31, 2020. We know you’ve been busy and that’s okay. Because we’ve had a number of requests for...continue reading.
Why RStudio Supports Python for Data Science
As RStudio’s products have increasingly supported Python over the past year, some of our seasoned customers have given us quizzical looks and ask, “Why are you adding Python support? I...continue reading.
