Publications by jeromyanglim
Video: SimpleR tricks and tools: Help, debugging, git, LaTeX, and workflow with R by Prof Rob Hyndman
This post shares the video from a talk presented on 20th November 2012 by Professor Rob Hyndman at Melbourne R Users. The talk provides an introduction to: Getting R help Debugging R functions R style guides Making good use of Rprofiles. Having a good R workflow Version control facilities Using R with LaTeX (without using sweave or knitr) Turnin...
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Video: Survey Package in R
Sebastián Duchêne presented a talk at Melbourne R Users on 20th February 2013 on the Survey Package in R. Talk Overview: Complex designs are common in survey data. In practice, collecting random samples from a populations is costly and impractical. Therefore the data are often non-independent or disproportionately sampled, and violate the typic...
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Video: High scale in-database modeling in Greenplum with R
The following post presents the video of a talk by Hong Ooi who presented at Melbourne R Users, March 2013. Content: Greenplum is a massively parallel relational database platform. R is one of the top languages in the data scientist/applied statistician community. In this talk, Hong gives an overview of how they work together, both with R on the ...
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Video: Using R for causal inference in a study of expensive public policy decisions
This post shares the video from a talk presented on 9th April 2013 by Jim Savage at Melbourne R Users. Billions of dollars a year are spent subsidising tuition of Australian university students. A controversial report last year by the Grattan Institute, Graduate Winners, asked ‘is this the best use of government money?’ In this talk, Jim Sava...
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Video: R, ProjectTemplate, RStudio and GitHub: Automate the boring bits and get on with the fun stuff
This post shares the video from the talk presented on 15th May 2013 by Dr Kendra Vant on ProjectTemplate, github and Rstudio at Melbourne R Users. Overview: Want to minimise the drudge work of data prep? Get started with test driven development? Bring structure and discipline to your analytics (relatively) painlessly? Boost the productivity of yo...
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New Video: Credit Scoring & R: Reject inference, nested conditional models, & joint scores
This post shares the video from the talk presented in August 2013 by Ross Gayler on Credit Scoring and R at Melbourne R Users. Credit scoring tends to involve the balancing of mutually contradictory objectives spiced with a liberal dash of methodological conservatism. This talk emphasises the craft of credit scoring, focusing on combining techni...
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Video: Google Analytics with R
This post shares the video from the talk presented in September 2013 by Johann de Boer on accessing Google Analytics using R at Melbourne R Users. In this presentation Johann will share his experience in creating his first open-source R package, ganalytics, used for accessing Google Analytics data. Reflecting on his journey to date in learning R...
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Video: Techniques to improve the accuracy of predictive models
This post shares the video from the talk presented in October 2013 by Phil Brierley on techniques to improve the accuracy of predictive models at Melbourne R Users. The Heritage Health Prize was a two year predictive analytics competition that recently concluded, and Melbourne based Phil Brierley was the P in POWERDOT, the ‘winning’ team. In...
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Video: Introduction to R Shiny
This post shares the video from the talk presented in November 2013 by Alec Stephenson providing an introduction to R shiny at Melbourne R Users. R Shiny, from the people behind R Studio, allows you to quickly and easily build basic web applications using only the R language. I will be demonstrating the basics of web app creation, and will show y...
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Video: Mining Tweets with R
This post shares the video from the talk presented in 2014 by Eu Jin Lok on mining tweets with R presented at Melbourne R Users. Twitter is currently ranked in the top 10 for most-visited website, and averaging 500 million tweets a day. It is not just a microblogging outlet used by individuals and celebrities, but also for big commercial organisa...
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