Author: Benjamin Smith

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. (The Atlas.co logo) A while back, the famous travel Youtubers Kara and Nate announced that they launched a new company called Atlas.co which prints custom souvenir maps as hangable artwork. After spending some time looking at how the maps looked I thought it would be interesting to see if it is possible to reverse ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Over the past while with my time on LinkedIn, I got to have exposure to many people from many different lines of work. I also managed to have carved a space for myself there where I can post about Data Science topics and share my blogs along the way. There have ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. “There is no unique definition of a square root of a matrix. While there are a few ways to calculate it in closed form, the results differ”. It was from these notes that I read in my multivariate statistics class that inspired me to explore the the geometric interpretations of varying ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Source: The Toronto Star Often when scraping data, websites will ask a user to enter a postal code to get the locations near it. If you are interested in collecting data on locations in Canada for an entire Province or the entire province from a site, it might be hard to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Candlestick plots are something you see regularly when dealing with stocks. Whether you are an investor, an analyst or even an outsider, this type of chart always in interesting to look at. In this brief blog, I’m going to share a custom function I made for making a candlestick charts using ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Whats great about Blogging and social media is that you get to learn so much if you use it right. After sharing my last blog on LinkedIn, Casper Crause told me about the siuba module created by Michael Chow from which allows Python users experience to using R’s powerful dplyr package ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. As surprising as it may sound, many new R programmers are unaware of Base R syntax and the powerful functions that come with it- many of which do what functions from packages like dplyr and the rest of the tidyverse do. In this short blog post I am going to talk ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. The story of the Donner-Reed party is one of the more tragic stories of the American Pioneers. The story is of a group of families and individuals who migrated to California on a wagon train from Midwestern America. The group initially traveled via the Oregon Trail but then opted to take ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test (HL test) is a goodness of fit test for binary classification models which tells how well data fits a given model. Specifically, the HL test calculates if the observed event rates match the expected event rates in population subgroups and could be used as a supporting diagnostic as ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Its been a while since I last posted anything on my blog, so I thought I would share an update. Recently, I had the opportunity to present for my midterm examination a deep learning framework of my choosing. I chose to give a talk on (you guessed it!) convolutional neural networks ... Read More