In 2018 the renowned scientific journal science broke a story that researchers had re-engineered the commercial criminal risk assessment software COMPAS with a simple logistic regression (Science: The accuracy, fairness, and limits of predicting recidivism). According to this article, COMPAS uses 137 features, the authors just used two. In this post, I ... [Read more...]

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In many cases, we need to perform differential expression across the time course data, e.g. finding genes that react in a condition-specific manner over time, compared to a set of baseline samples. DEseq2 has such an implementation for time-course expe... [Read more...]

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Organisation of a collaborative project for PROPRE publication With our “PROPRE” Project Guide, get a publishing committee and a development team to collaborate on creating your automated reports using the “PROPRE” methodology. Follow our ... [Read more...]

One of the projects I maintain is the FOSS for Spectroscopy web site. The table at that site lists various software for use in spectroscopy. Historically, I have used the Github or Python Package Index search engines to manually search by topic... [Read more...]

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Tidygeocoder v1.0.3 is released on CRAN! This release adds support for reverse geocoding (geocoding geographic coordinates) and 7 new geocoder services: OpenCage, HERE, Mapbox, MapQuest, TomTom, Bing, and ArcGIS. Refer to the geocoder services page for information on all the supported geocoder services. [Read more...]

One of the projects I maintain is the FOSS for Spectroscopy web site. The table at that site lists various software for use in spectroscopy. Historically, I have used the Github or Python Package Index search engines to manually search by topic suc... [Read more...]

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Setup Loading the R libraries, data set, and a shapefile for the USA. # Loading libraries library(tidyverse) library(tidytuesdayR) library(gganimate) library(sf) # Loading data set tt [Read more...]

Introduction It is no secret that sparse matrix operations are faster in C++ than in R. RcppArmadillo and RcppEigen do a great job copying sparse matrices from R to C++ and back again. But note the word “copy”. Every time RcppArmadillo converts an ... [Read more...]