Category: Education

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. The website Privacy Affairs keeps a list of fines related to GDPR.I heard * that this might be an interesting dataset for TidyTuesdays. The dataset contains at thismoment 250 fines given out for GDPR violations and is last updated (according to the website) on 31 March 2020. All data is from official government sources, such as official reports of national Data Protection Authorities. The largest fine is €50,000,000 on Google Inc. on January 21 , 2019 – in France, and the smallest is actually 0 euros, but the website says 90. I use the {rvest} ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Richard Iannone. [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. We are extremely excited to have our first release of the gt packageavailable in CRAN! The name gt is short for “grammar of tables” andthe goal of gt is similar to that of ggplot2, serving to notjust to make it easy to make specific tables, but to describe a set ofunderlying components ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Kevin Zolea on Kevin Zolea. With all this Covid19 madness going on in the world, I felt inspired to utilize the vast amount of data we have from it. I came across a dataset by the The NY Times. From reading over the GitHub repository, they obtain this time series data from state and local governments and health departments. To get a better sense of the data please go to the link above! The objective of what I am trying to accomplish is to create an animated time series map showing how Covid19 spread throughout NJ. To ... 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. Exercise template for a multiple-choice knowledge quiz question with flexible shuffling of the alternatives. Name: capitals Description: Knowledge quiz question about capitals (vs. large cities) in countries around the world with 5 correct and 6 false alternatives which are shuffled randomly in each version of the exercise. Due to the large number of both ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: AbdulMajedRaja RS. In this tutorial, you’ll learn to use VS Code (Visual Studio Code from Microsoft) as an alternative IDE to the most popular RStudio. You’ll start from enabling R programming within your VS Code environment and also briefly look at some features and shortcuts of VSCode R. Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGt9LyijhM vscode-r Github Plugin – https://github.com/Ikuyadeu/vscode-R 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: 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 G, I’d like to introduce a very useful function: group_by. This function lets you group data by one or more variables. By itself, it may not seem very useful, but it’s great when you start manipulating and summarizing data. That’s because many of the functions applied to data after you ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Chris Paciorek. [This article was first published on R – NIMBLE, 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. Registration is now open for a three-day online training workshop on NIMBLE, June 3-5, 2020, 9 am – 2 pm California time (noon – 5 pm US EDT). This online workshop will be held in place of our previously planned in-person workshop. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. After soliciting, reviewing, and publishing over 100 blog posts and tech notes by rOpenSci community members, we have created the rOpenSci Blog Guide for Authors and Editors to address many frequently asked questions and frequently given suggestions. Technically, we structured the content as a bookdown gitbook. It was Stef’s first foray into the glorious process of publishing a book with bookdown, and Maëlle’s second. And oh, we learned a lot. Stef (first-timer) 1. How to collaborate across timezones There is a 9-hour time difference between Maëlle and me for most ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Pieter Cailliau. The newly announced RedisGraph 2.0 module brings a number of improvements, including increased Cypher support, full-text search, and it enables graph visualization. Just as important, however, the latest version of RedisGraph delivers significant performance improvements: with latency improvements up to 6x and throughput improvements up to 5x. Let’s take a look at those performance gains and the benchmarks used to demonstrate them. When we released RedisGraph 1.0 back in November 2018, we shared benchmark results based on the k-hop neighborhood count query. The new RedisGraph 2.0 includes new features and functionalities that support more-comprehensive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Apache Spark is a powerful data processing engine that gives data analyst and engineering teams easy to use APIs and tools to analyze their data, but it can be challenging for teams to manage their Python and R library dependencies. Installing every dependency that a job may need before it runs and dealing with library version conflicts is time-consuming and complicated. Amazon EMR 6.0.0 simplifies this by allowing you to use Docker images from Docker Hub and Amazon ECR to package your dependencies. This allows you to package and manage your dependencies for individual Spark ... Read More