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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | datawookie. [This article was first published on R | datawookie, 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. @racently is a side project that I have been nursing along for a couple of years. It addresses a problem that I have as a runner: my race results are distributed across a variety of web sites. This makes it difficult to create a single view on my running performance ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Keith Goldfeld. [This article was first published on ouR data generation, 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. I am involved with a very interesting project – the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory – where a primary goal is to fund a large group of pragmatic pilot studies to investigate promising interventions to improve health care and quality of life for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. One of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Alan Yeung. [This article was first published on R on Alan Yeung, 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 previous blog posts (Hacking dbplyr for CKAN, Getting Open Data into R from CKAN) I have been exploring how to download data from the NHS Scotland open data platform into R. I’ve recently discovered that ROpenSci has a package to help with just this called ckanr and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Avast is among the best free antivirus software on the market, while Webroot uses different methods to protect your devices, compared to its competitors. To decide which is best, we’re pitting Webroot and Avast against each other in a head-to-head comparison. Although the services cover different markets — with Avast appealing to the masses and Webroot targeting a niche audience — they’re more similar than they are different. That said, some areas, such as protection, are more important than others, pushing one of the services ahead.  This Webroot vs. Avast comparison can’t cover everything, though, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lisa Allred. This is an issue I hear about from parents all of the time.  Sometimes the disagreements are small, and sometimes they are very significant.  As your child ages, the stakes become even higher when parents can't get on the same page.  Here are a few common ways that parents find themselves on different pages.  If you find yourself unable to work through these challenges, I encourage you to consult with a child therapist who can help you! Inconsistency:  Inconsistency happens when you get tired or busy or stressed.  It is easy for a single parent ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Nina Zumel. [This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, 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. Regularization is a way of avoiding overfit by restricting the magnitude of model coefficients (or in deep learning, node weights). A simple example of regularization is the use of ridge or lasso regression to fit linear models in the presence of collinear variables or (quasi-)separation. The intuition is that smaller ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; First of all, what is DevOps? DevOps is short for Developer Operations and it is a newer approach that combines both development and operational tasks to automate and speed up software development practices and reduce release cycles for fast-growing companies. DevOps is built on the concept of teamwork and aims to unite teams that were traditionally kept separate and siloed, and reduces the development lifecycle for faster scalability. Once companies have decided which their business needs and objectives are, they need to start small and work towards adopting the DevOps model across the entire ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The ribbon in Power BI Desktop has an updated and modern experience. When you turn on the “Updated ribbon” preview feature, you will see a ribbon that looks more like the ribbon in Office products. In the updated ribbon, you have access to all the existing features that you know and love, and over time, more features will be added to the ribbon. If you have feedback about the updated ribbon, we’d love to hear from you! The Journey When we started the journey of redesigning the ribbon, some ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The November update has major updates in several areas of Power BI Desktop. There’s a new, modern ribbon that aligns Power BI Desktop with Office and adds more functionality. We’re also adding a new visual, the decomposition tree, which is one of the most requested ideas on ideas.powerbi.com. AI functions integrated into Power Query allows you to take your data transformations to the next level, and of course we have incremental improvements across the entire product. Here’s the complete list of November updates: Other Reporting Analytics Visualizations Data connectivity ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Identity theft isn’t a new concept, but it’s prominent now more than ever. With so much information shared on social media — not to mention the online shopping revolution — more personal information is stored in the cloud than ever before. Although the internet has brought new risks to identity theft, it has also brought new ways to protect against it.  In this guide to the best identity theft protection, we’re going to highlight the services that keep you safe from scams, fraud and any other criminal unpleasantness. Along the way, we’ll also talk about ... Read More