Reinventing the wheel for ordination biplots with ggplot2
(This article was first published on R is my friend » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I’ll be the first to admit that the topic of plotting ordination results using ggplot2 has been visited...
View ArticleInteractive maps for the web in R
(This article was first published on R Video tutorial for Spatial Statistics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Static MapsIn the last post I showed how to download economic data from the World...
View ArticleTips & Tricks 9: Shape Changes and Hypothetical Shapes
(This article was first published on geomorph, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Geomorph users,This month’s tips and tricks was prompted by a user email from Tim Astrop, thanks Tim!How can I...
View ArticlePull the (character) strings with stringi 0.5-2
(This article was first published on Rexamine » Blog/R-bloggers, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) A reliable string processing toolkit is a must-have for any data scientist. A new release of the...
View ArticleSeattle’s Fremont Bridge Bicyclists Again in the News
(This article was first published on Notes of a Dabbler » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Back in 2013, David Smith had done analysis of bicycle trips across Seattle’s Fremont bridge. More...
View ArticleFeature Engineering versus Feature Extraction: Game On!
(This article was first published on Blog - Applied Predictive Modeling, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) “Feature engineering” is a fancy term for making sure that your predictors are encoded in...
View ArticleMultivariate Techniques in Python: EcoPy Alpha Launch!
(This article was first published on Climate Change Ecology » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I’m announcing the alpha launch of EcoPy: Ecological Data Analysis in Python. EcoPy is a Python...
View Articlepartools: a Sensible R Package for Large Data Sets
(This article was first published on Mad (Data) Scientist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) As I mentioned recently, the new, greatly extended version of my partools package is now on CRAN. (The...
View ArticleMatrix Factorization Comes in Many Flavors: Components, Clusters, Building...
(This article was first published on Engaging Market Research, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Unsupervised learning is covered in Chapter 14 of The Elements of Statistical Learning. Here we...
View ArticleR News From JSM 2015
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) by Joseph Rickert We can declare 2015 the year that R went mainstream at the JSM. There is no doubt about it,...
View Article5 New R Packages for Data Scientists
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) by Joseph Rickert One great beauty of the R ecosystem, and perhaps the primary reason for R’s phenomenal...
View ArticleModern Honey Network Machinations with R, Python, phantomjs, HTML & JavaScript
(This article was first published on Data Driven Security, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This was (initially) going to be a blog post announcing the new mhn R package (more on what that is in...
View ArticleR in big data pipeline
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) R is my fabovite tool for research. There are still quite a few things that only R can do or...
View ArticleOfuro, start H2O on Hadoop from R
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) tl;dr I made a simple functionality to start H2O on hadoop from R. You can easily start H2O on hadoop,...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Like Jupyter (FKA IPython Notebook)
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Don’t get me wrong, it’s certainly a great tool for presenting your code or even reporting, but...
View Articlexkcd survey and the power to shape the internet
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The xkcd survey If you’ve never heard of xkcd, it’s “[a] webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: August 2015 roundup
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. Creating...
View ArticleNew R Software/Methodology for Handling Missing Dat
(This article was first published on Mad (Data) Scientist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I’ve added some missing-data software to my regtools package on GitHub. In this post, I’ll give an...
View ArticlePredicting Titanic deaths on Kaggle VI: Stan
(This article was first published on Wiekvoet, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) It is a bit a contradiction. Kaggle provides competitions on data science, while Stan is clearly part of the...
View ArticleSix lines to install and start SparkR on Mac OS X Yosemite
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I know there are many R users who like to test out SparkR without all the configuration hassle. Just...
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