Publications by R Views
Greg Wilson Wins ACM Influential Educator Award
Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) recognized Greg Wilson as the 2020 recipient of its prestigious Influential Educator Award which is awarded annually to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to software engineering through education, me...
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Some Upcoming R Related, Virtual Events
COVID-19 Data Forum Webinar – Next Thursday (5/14/20) at Noon Pacific time, the COVID-19 Data Forum, sponsored by R Consortium and the Stanford Data Science Institute will open with a public webinar. The purpose of the Forum is to provide a way for experts to focus on data-related aspects of the scientific response to the pandemic, including da...
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Congratulations Class of 2020!
Yesterday, along with R-Ladies Founder Gabriela de Queiroz I was honored to be asked to give a short talk at an online graduation ceremony for the BSc and MSc Statistics Graduates of the class of 2020 (all R users) at the California State University, East Bay. My talk contains some statistics jargon, but I thought it might be helpful to Class of ...
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An R View into Epidemiology
If you have been tracking the numbers for the COVID-19 pandemic, you must have looked at dozens of models and tried to make some comparisons. Even under the best of situations it is difficult to compare models, and this is especially true if you don’t have sufficient domain knowledge. Experts tend to leave out assumptions and background materia...
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Modern Rule-Based Models
Modern Rule-Based Models Machine learning models come in many shapes and sizes. While deep learning models currently have the lion’s share of coverage, there are many other classes of models that are effective across many different problem domains. This post gives a short summary of several rule-based models that are closely related to tree-bas...
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Community and Collaboration: Writing Our Book in the Open
Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Chicken Farm in the Open In 2017, Emily Bovee, Jesse Mostipak, Joshua Rosenberg, Isabella Velásquez, and I started work on our book, Data Science in Education Using R (DSIEUR). We had two goa...
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April 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred forty-eight new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods JuliaConnectoR v0.6.0: Allows users to import Julia packages and functions in such a way th...
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More Select COVID-19 Resources
We are over five months into this pandemic, and it is pretty clear that almost everyone is really tired of hearing about it. I myself am totally zoomed out and have already seen too many dashboards. Nevertheless, we are in this for the long run. So from time-to-time, I think it worthwhile to continue to look for tools that can help us make some s...
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Learning R With Education Datasets
Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Timothy Gallwey wrote in The Inner Game of Tennis: …There is a natural learning process which operates within everyone, if it is allowed to. This process is waiting to be discovered by all tho...
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R Can Pull the Fire Alarm!
Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at Old Dominion University There are times when it would be really nice to get an email from R. Maybe you have a long running job that you would just like to leave alone whi...
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