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Bio7 2.4 for Linux Released
04.07.2016 A new Bio7 Linux release is available at http://bio7.org. The general release note for Bio7 2.4 can be found here! Installation: Bio7 for Linux comes bundled with the latest Java Runtime Environment. To use R with Bio7 you have to install R for Linux. In addition you have to install Rserve configured to use ‘cooperative mode’ (sha...
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New R Editor Features in Bio7
12.07.2016 Bio7 2.4 has been released for Windows, MacOSX and Linux and this release comes with a plethora of new R editor features. The editor now supports the dynamic code analysis of R scripts, refactoring methods, improved code completions, more key shortcuts for a faster editing and improved quick fixes which now can be opened and applied di...
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Emotion Detection for Journalism with Microsoft Emotion API
Microsoft provides some sophisticated Machine Learning tools via its Cognitive Services: Microsoft enables us to access several of its APIs in order to leverage Advanced Analyses. One of these is the Emotion API which can be fed pictures or videos that will be analysed and emotions detected therein will be returned to the user. Related To leave...
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R Improvements for Bio7 2.5
31.03.2017 The next release of Bio7 comes with many new R features and improvements which were integrated since the last release. In this post I like to present a subset of some new R documentation features of the upcoming Bio7 2.5 release. 1. R Markdown Editor: I improved the R markdown editor of Bio7 and integrated some code templates, font col...
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Bio7 2.5 for Windows and Linux Released
07.04.2017 A new release of Bio7 is available for Windows (64-bit) and Linux (64-bit). The MacOSX version will be released soon, too. This release comes with a plethora of new functions for R. General Bio7 is now based on Eclipse 4.6.3 Redesigned all Bio7 icons and created new icons, too Nearly all icons are now available for high dpi displays A...
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Calculate Inflation with the blscrapeR Package
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the main standard for tracking the inflation of the U.S. dollar. The various CPI measures are published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For this walk-through, we will be using the blcsrapeR package to download our data from the BLS and perform the calculation. The blscrapeR package can be installed via...
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Shiny Server on Docker: CentOS 7 Edition
Docker as a Disposable Test Environment Docker is generally used for application development and deployment. While it is possible to develop and deploy Shiny applications in Docker containers, I have found it is much more useful to keep a Shiny Docker container that is a twin of my production server. This allows us to test new versions and new ap...
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Data needs for forecasting influenza pandemics
Last week, I attended a Pandemic Influenza Exercise at the US CDC. To be clear, there is NOT a pandemic occuring right now, but the CDC ran this exercise where hundreds of staff members and outside observers and participants came together to practice going through the motions of a public health response to a major pandemic. As someone who is usua...
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Forecast Framework Demo
Want to learn how to do some forecasting with R? Here’s your chance to try out a new time-series forecasting package for R whose aim is to standardize and simplify the process of making and evaluating forecasts! The Reich Lab uses an R package called ForecastFramework to implement forecasting models. There are many benefits to using ForecastFra...
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Meteorite Falls and Finds in the UK
(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) The Tidy Tuesday dataset for this week, compiling meteorite strikes across the world, grabbed my interest so I decided to finally dive in and give it a go. I ended up looking at strikes in the UK, noted by mass. ...
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