Publications by Tal Galili
Post your resume to R-users.com (+6 new R jobs for 2016-02-22)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] New in R-users – Resumes! R-users.com now features a Resume section with CVs from 150 R users. You can submit your resume for free registering as a “job seeker” (or browse them, to get ideas of how to present yourself to your next job. This however requires a paid subscript...
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Lambda (Box-Cox transformation parameter) value for forecasting using ARIMA
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Guest post by Amit Thombre. (you can email Amit with questions) Introduction: – George Box and David Cox developed a procedure to identify an appropriate exponent (lambda) to transform the data to improve its normality. The Lambda value indicates the power to which all data shou...
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useR! 2016 Conference Announcement (with updated dates)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] We are happy to announce that the R user conference useR! 2016 is scheduled for June 27-30, 2016, and will take place at the campus of Stanford University, Stanford California, USA. Following the formats of previous conferences, the program will consist of a day of tutorials...
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7 new R jobs (and dozens of Resumes) from around the world (2016-03-09)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] R-users Resumes R-users.com features a Resume section with CVs from over 160 R users. You can submit your resume for free by registering as a “job seeker” (you may also browse the resumes through a paid subscription). Here are the new R Jobs for 2016-03-09. To post yo...
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It’s not the p-values’ fault – reflections on the recent ASA statement (+relevant R resources)
Joint post by Yoav Benjamini and Tal Galili. The post highlights points raised by Yoav in his official response to the ASA statement (available as on page 4 in the ASA supplemental tab), as well as offers a list of relevant R resources. Summary The ASA statement about the misuses of the p-value singles it out. It is just as well relevant to ...
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R 3.2.4 is released
R 3.2.4 (codename “Very Secure Dishes”) was released today. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). The full list of new features and bug fixes is provided below. Upgrading to R 3.2.4 on Windows If you are using Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the install...
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Ensemble Learning in R
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Guest post by Stefan Feuerriegel Previous research in data mining has devised numerous different algorithms for learning tasks. While an individual algorithm might already work decently, one can usually obtain a better predictive by combining several. This approach is referred t...
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R talks and tutorials at the ODSC East conference (+ 10% discount code)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (Guest post by Sheamus McGovern of ODSC) R will feature prominently at this year’s Open Data Science conference (ODSC East) in Boston from May 20th to 22nd. We have a strong lineup of workshops and talks from some of the top contributors in the R community. Joe Cheng, the cre...
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Election tRends: An interactive US election tracker (using Shiny and Plotly)
Guest post by Jonathan Sidi Introduction The US primaries are coming on fast with almost 120 days left until the conventions. After building a shinyapp for the Israeli Elections I decided to update features in the app and tried out plotly in the shiny framework. As a casual voter, trying to gauge the true temperature of the political landscape fr...
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european R users meeting (eRum) 2016 – Call for Workshops deadline (by 15th of April)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] deadline: 15th of April submission form and details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZZwSPUB4-31nUYOhjdhArOF1kjdXrQW_XPWpfd0nqWU/viewform Info about the conference: eRum 2016 will take place in the beautiful city of Poznań, Poland, betweenOctober 12th and 14th, and we already ...
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