Publications by Tal Galili
Update: Predictive Bookmaker Consensus Model for the UEFA Euro 2016
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (By Achim Zeileis) Three weeks we had published a Predictive Bookmaker Consensus Model for the UEFA Euro 2016 that provided probabilistic forecasts for all teams in the UEFA European Championship 2016. By combining bookmaker odds with simulation techniques and paired comparison m...
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7 new R jobs from around the world (2016-07-05)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Here are the new R Jobs for 2016-07-05. To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can either post a job for free (which works great), or pay $50 to have your job featured (and get extra exposure). Current R jobs ...
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R Competition on education in South Africa (July and August 2016)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (Guest post by Bartosz Sękiewicz) We invite you to participate in our Kaggle-style R competition, an online team competition (1-3 people) which is based in Poland though we would welcome international teams. It will take place during July and August 2016. The organisers are Do-...
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GREA: The RStudio Add-In to read ALL the data into R!
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Guest post by Stanislaus Stadlmann Have you also been overburdened by the vast selection of R packages to read different filetypes into R? Do you sometimes just want to get that .csv file up and running in your environment, but forgot about all those endless read.table() options? ...
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9 new R jobs from around the world (2016-07-19)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Here are the new R Jobs for 2016-07-19. To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can either post a job for free (which works great), or pay $50 to have your job featured (and get extra exposure). Current R jobs ...
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Using 2D Contour Plots within {ggplot2} to Visualize Relationships between Three Variables
Guest post by John Bellettiere, Vincent Berardi, Santiago Estrada The Goal To visually explore relations between two related variables and an outcome using contour plots. We use the contour function in Base R to produce contour plots that are well-suited for initial investigations into three dimensional data. We then develop visualizations using...
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The reproducibility crisis in science and prospects for R
Guest post by Gregorio Santori (<[email protected]>) The results that emerged from a recent Nature‘s survey confirm as, for many researchers, we are living in a weak reproducibility age (Baker M. Is there a reproducibility crisis? Nature 2016;533:453-454). Although the definition of reproducibility can vary widely between disciplines, in this ...
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7 new R jobs from around the world (2016-08-01)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Here are the new R Jobs for 2016-08-01. To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can either post a job for free (which works great), or pay $50 to have your job featured (and get extra exposure). Current R jobs ...
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[R] Kenntnis-Tage 2016 Summer Special: Get your tickets with the code “R-Bloggers” until August 21 and save money
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] (Guest post by Oliver Bracht – eoda) Data Science goes professional is this year’s slogan of [R] Kenntnis-Tage 2016, a German-language R event with tutorial sessions and business case presentations hosted in Kassel, Germany, on November 2nd and 3rd. After a successful premier...
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14 new R jobs from around the world (2016-08-16)
[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Here are the new R Jobs for 2016-08-16. To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can either post a job for free (which works great), or pay $50 to have your job featured (and get extra exposure). Current R jobs ...
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