Publications by BNOSAC - Belgium Network of Open Source Analytical Consultants
Course on using Oracle R Enterprise
BNOSAC will be giving from June 08 up to June 12 a 5-day crash course on the use of R using Oracle R Enterprise. The course is given together with our Oracle Partner in Leuven, Belgium. If you are interested in attending, contact us for further details. For R users who aren't aware of this yet. Oracle has embedded R into it's database which al...
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R courses
For persons interested in advancing their knowledge on R and data science with R, BNOSAC offers a range of courses for R users. These cover courses on – R analytics (Statistical Machine Learning with R, Text mining with R, Applied Spatial modelling with R) – R programming (R for starters, Common data manipulation for R programmers, Report...
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R courses on basic R, advanced R, statistical machine learning with R, text mining with R, spatial modelling with R and R package building
Waw, our course list for teaching R is getting bigger and bigger. We have now courses on basic, R, advanced R, R package building, statistical machine learning with R, text mining with R and spatial analysis with R. All face-to-face courses given in Belgium and scheduled in the coming months. Some courses are given at the European Data Innovat...
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Text Mining with R
Last week, we had a great course on Text Mining with R at the European Data Innovation Hub. For persons interested in text mining with R, another 1-day crash course is scheduled at the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium) on November 17 (http://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/coursedescriptions/text-mining-with-r). The following elements are c...
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Open Data in Belgium – release of BelgiumStatistics R package
On 22/10/2015, the Belgium government launched its Open Data initiative by releasing a number of datasets related to population statistics, fiscal information, 'kadaster', the 2011 census and some tools. Because BNOSAC works a lot with these kind of data and because we like to promote open data, an R package called BelgiumStatistics was made ava...
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Advanced R programming topics course in Leuven
Last call for registration of the course on Advanced R programming topics. Next week on February 17/18, the yearly R course on Advanced R programming topics in Leuven (Belgium) is scheduled. Registration can be done at https://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/coursedescriptions/AdvancedprogramminginR.html. The course is rewritten based on 3 year...
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Web scraping with R
For those of you who are interested in web scraping with R. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. The talk is about using rvest, RSelenium and our own package scrapeit.core which makes scraping deployment, logging and replaying your scrapes more easy. The slides below are in Flash so make sure you don...
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New RStudio add-in which allows to schedule R scripts
With the release of RStudio add-in possibilities, a new area of productivity increase and expected new features for R users has arrived. Thanks to the help of Oliver who has written an RStudio add-in on top of taskscheduleR, scheduling and automating an R script from RStudio is now exactly one click away if you are working on Windows. How? Just...
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Sentiment analysis and Parts of Speech tagging in Dutch/French/English/German/Spanish/Italian
As part of our continuing effort to digitise poetry and to automate new forms of poetry, we released an R package called pattern.nlp, which is available at https://github.com/bnosac/pattern.nlp . It allows R users to do sentiment analysis and Parts of Speech tagging for text written in Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish or Italian. Of course...
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BelgiumMaps.StatBel: R package with Administrative boundaries of Belgium
We recently opened up the BelgiumMaps.StatBel package and made it available at https://github.com/bnosac/BelgiumMaps.StatBel. This R package contains maps with administrative boundaries (national, regions, provinces, districts, municipalities, statistical sectors, agglomerations (200m)) of Belgium extracted from Open Data at Statistics Belgium....
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