Publications by R Views
Solving Data Science’s First Mile Problem
At data.world, we are out to solve the “first mile problem of data science”: helping people obtain and understand the data sets they need. Everybody starts here whether they are analyzing their fantasy football league or working on the Zika pandemic. But unfortunately, as Professor Eric Schwartz at the University of Michigan said to me recent...
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Copper, Gold and Ten-Year Treasury Notes
Today, we will continue getting familiar with data from Quandl, but will also devote more time to expanding our dygraphs toolkit. We will be building up a data visualization in discrete pieces, which isn’t very efficient, but will make things easier when we move this project into production as a Shiny app. From a substantive perspective, we wil...
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Copper, Gold and Ten-Year Treasury Notes
Today, we will continue getting familiar with data from Quandl, but will also devote more time to expanding our dygraphs toolkit. We will be building up a data visualization in discrete pieces, which isn’t very efficient, but will make things easier when we move this project into production as a Shiny app. From a substantive perspective, we wil...
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March ’17 New Package Picks
Two hundred and sixteen new packages were added to CRAN in March. The following are my picks for the Top Forty, organized into five categories: Bioscience, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Bioscience BioInstaller v0.0.3: Provides tools to install and download massive bioinformatics analysis software and database, such as NGS analys...
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March ’17 New Package Picks
Two hundred and sixteen new packages were added to CRAN in March. The following are my picks for the Top Forty, organized into five categories: Bioscience, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Bioscience BioInstaller v0.0.3: Provides tools to install and download massive bioinformatics analysis software and database, such as NGS analys...
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R for Enterprise: Understanding R’s Startup
R’s startup behavior is incredibly powerful. R sets environment variables, loads base packages, and understands whether you’re running a script, an interactive session, or even a build command. Most R users will never have to worry about changing R’s startup process. In fact, for portability and reproducibility of code, we recommend that us...
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R for Enterprise: Understanding R’s Startup
R’s startup behavior is incredibly powerful. R sets environment variables, loads base packages, and understands whether you’re running a script, an interactive session, or even a build command. Most R users will never have to worry about changing R’s startup process. In fact, for portability and reproducibility of code, we recommend that us...
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A Shiny App for Importing and Forecasting Commodities Prices from Quandl
In a previous post, we imported oil data from Quandl and applied a simple model to it. Today, we’ll port that work over to a Shiny app (by way of flexdashboard, of course) that allows a user to choose a commodity (oil, copper or gold), choose a frequency for the time series, and choose how many periods ahead to forecast. The app will display th...
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A Shiny App for Importing and Forecasting Commodities Prices from Quandl
In a previous post, we imported oil data from Quandl and applied a simple model to it. Today, we’ll port that work over to a Shiny app (by way of flexdashboard, of course) that allows a user to choose a commodity (oil, copper or gold), choose a frequency for the time series, and choose how many periods ahead to forecast. The app will display th...
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Survival Analysis with R
With roots dating back to at least 1662 when John Graunt, a London merchant, published an extensive set of inferences based on mortality records, Survival Analysis is one of the oldest subfields of Statistics [1]. Basic life-table methods, including techniques for dealing with censored data, were known before 1700 [2]. In the early eighteenth cen...
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