IPO Exploration Part Two
In a previous post, we explored IPOs and IPO returns by sector and year since 2004. Today, let’s investigate how portfolios formed with those IPOs have performed. We will need...continue reading.
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The Colour of Everything
I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big release comprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of...continue reading.
roxygen2 7.0.0
We’re exceedingly happy to announce the release of roxygen2 7.0.0. roxygen2 allows you to write specially formatted R comments that generate R documentation files (man/*.Rd) and a NAMESPACE file. roxygen2...continue reading.
dtplyr 1.0.0
I’m very excited to announce that dtplyr 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. dtplyr provides a data.table backend for dplyr, allowing you to write dplyr code that is automatically translated to...continue reading.
AzureR updates: AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph, AzureContainers
Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week’s AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live on...continue reading.
Azure AI and Machine Learning talk series
At last week’s Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, our team delivered a series of 6 talks about AI and machine learning applications with Azure. The videos from each talk are...continue reading.
How to encode categorical features with scikit-learn (video)
In this 28-minute video, you’ll learn how to properly encode your categorical features using scikit-learn’s OneHotEncoder, ColumnTransformer, and Pipeline.continue reading.
Data Scientist or Data Engineer – What’s the difference?
When it was floated that I should write this article, I approached it with trepidation. There is no better way… The post Data Scientist or Data Engineer – What’s the...continue reading.
Data Science – A New Hope for Good
Good triumphing over evil in the end is the stuff of every good fairy tale or Hollywood storyline, but in… The post Data Science – A New Hope for Good...continue reading.
Integrating Python and R into a Data Analysis Pipeline
For a conference in the R language, EARL London 2015 saw a surprising number of discussions about Python. I like… The post Integrating Python and R into a Data Analysis...continue reading.
How to Become a Mango
At Mango, we talk a lot about going on a ‘data-driven journey’ with your business. We’re passionate about data and getting the best… The post How to Become a Mango appeared first on...continue reading.
Variational convnets with tfprobability
In a Bayesian neural network, layer weights are distributions, not tensors. Using tfprobability, the R wrapper to TensorFlow Probability, we can build regular Keras models that have probabilistic layers, and...continue reading.
Using R and H2O Isolation Forest For Data Quality
Introduction:We will identify anomalous patterns in data, this process is useful, not only to find inconsistencies and errors but also to find abnormal data behavior, being useful even to find...continue reading.
Statistical uncertainty with R and pdqr
CRAN has accepted my ‘pdqr’ package. Here are important examples of how it can be used to describe and evaluate statistical uncertainty. I am glad to announce that my latest,...continue reading.
R Weekly 2019-45 {renv}, {tvthemes}
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2019-11-11 This week’s release was curated by Jon Calder, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. renv: Project Environments...continue reading.
A comparison of methods for predicting clothing classes using the Fashion MNIST dataset in RStudio and Python (Part 1)
Florianne Verkroost is a PhD candidate at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. With a passion for data science and a background in mathematics and econometrics. She applies her...continue reading.
A clear explanation of the Pandas index
This tutorial will clearly explain the Pandas index … what Pandas DataFrame indexes are, and how they work. In the tutorial, I’ll explain what the index is, with clear pictures...continue reading.
Dangerous streets of Bratislava! Animated maps using open data in R
At the work recently, I wanted to make some interesting start-up pitch (presentation) ready animated visualization and got some first experience with spatial data (e.g. polygons). I enjoyed working with...continue reading.
future 1.15.0 – Lazy Futures are Now Launched if Queried
No dogs were harmed while making this release future 1.15.0 is now on CRAN, accompanied by a recent, related update of future.callr 0.5.0. The main update is a change to...continue reading.
haven 2.2.0
We’re delighted to announce that haven 2.2.0 is now on CRAN. haven enables R to read and write various data formats used by other statistical packages by wrapping the ReadStat...continue reading.
