Tag: Updates

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , 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. A new release 0.4.12 of RQuantLib arrived on CRAN today, and was uploaded to Debian as well. QuantLib is a very comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance; RQuantLib connects it to the R environment and language. This version does relatively little. When QuantLib 1.18 came out, I ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Over the years, I’ve been extremely fortunate to be a part of some truly amazing teams. Thinking back, if I had to choose just one attribute that contributed to our shared success, it would be the relentless pursuit of greater efficiency. This is, of course, a very broad and multi-faceted topic where  opportunities abound, so it can be difficult to decide where to focus time and energy when expounding upon it. But in this case, it’s pretty clear what made the difference. No surprise, It’s collaboration It’s no coincidence that these particular teams placed a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R/exams. [This article was first published on R/exams, 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. Webinar hosted by Why R? Foundation: Slides, video, and e-learning resources. Why R? Webinar 001 R/exams was presented in the first Why R? webinar by Achim Zeileis. Marcin Kosiński was the host and did a great job setting up the Zoom session that was streamed live on YouTube where more than 100 participants joined ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Wolf. Governments and COVID-19: Which one stops it faster, better, has fewer people dying? These questions get answered with my dashboard. A contribution to the shiny-contest: https://community.rstudio.com/t/material-design-corona-covid-19-dashboard-2020-shiny-contest-submission/59690 Intro How did Corona spread? Using the animation feature of R-shiny this can be easily tracked.COVID-19 is the major topic in all news channels. The place I live in is Munich, Germany. Within weeks Germany moved from 3 patients in the hospital next to my home, to have 20,000 patients. As a data-scientist, I did not only see the numbers but the exponential growth. I wanted to know: How ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , 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. A new (upstream) simdjson release was announced by Daniel Lemire earlier this week, and my Twitter mentions have been running red-hot ever since as he was kind enough to tag me. Do look at that blog post, there is some impressive work in there. We wrapped up ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Unknown. [This article was first published on Deeply Trivial, 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. For the letter C, we’ll talk about the coalesce function. If you’re familiar with SQL, you may have seen this function before. It combines two or more variables into a single column, and is a way to deal with missing data. When you give it a list of variables, it selects the first ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Kelly O'Briant. [This article was first published on RStudio 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. One of the biggest frustrations for a data scientist, whether your primary language is R or Python, is to have your hard work go underutilized. A stream of disposable reports, emails, and presentations that get viewed once and cast aside are not the ideal recipe for how to make an impact. To ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Przemyslaw Biecek. Remote teaching at my university encouraged me to prepare some video materials for Explanatory Model Analysis techniques, i.e. techniques of exploration, explanation and visualisation of predictive models. The pyramid for Explanatory Model Analysis. Left part is focused on a single observation (instance-level or local explanations). Right part is focused on the whole data set (called dataset level or global explanations). In the first row are raw model predictions and model statistics. The second row is related to the analysis of model parts. The third row describes the profile of model behaviour depending on the values ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lucas de Paula. Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, there is always someone who will either ask: Can this be exported to excel or can we import data from excel?. Recently, other questions started to come up more often: Can we run Python within SAS? How do I allow my team to ... Read More