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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. In a previous article we illustrated how to calculate xgboost model predictions in-database. This was referenced and incorporated into tidypredict. After learning more about what the tidypredict team is up to, I discovered another tidyverse package called modeldb ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Earlier this year I was a student on the RStudio Instructor Training, taught by the inspiratational Greg Wilson. I remember several tips from this course, for example that you should always try to draw a concept ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Two Hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacology, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods admmDensestSubmatrix v0.1.0: Implements a method to identify the densest sub-matrix in a given or sampled binary matrix ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. 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 to grab the price histories of the tickers, then form portfolios, then calculate their performance, and then rank those performances in some ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. 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 interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. In this series of blog posts, I will compare different machine and deep ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Using a probability distribution to characterize uncertainty is at the core of statistical inference. So, it seems natural to try to summarize the information about the parameters in statistical models with probability distributions. R. A. Fisher thought so. In fact, he expended a great deal of effort over more than thirty years, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred and thirteen new packages made it to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Economics, Machine Learning, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods eRTG3D v0.6.2: Provides functions to create realistic random trajectories in a 3-D space between two given fixed ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Related If you got this far, why not subscribe for updates from the site? Choose your flavor: e-mail, twitter, RSS, or facebook ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Producing an API that serves model results or a Shiny app that displays the results of an analysis requires a collection of intermediate datasets and model objects, all of which need to be saved. Depending on the project, they might need to be reused in another project later, shared with a colleague, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. 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 interdisciplinary knowledge to computationally address societal problems of inequality. In this post, I will show you how to create interactive world maps ... Read More