Whether you want to do, share, teach, or learn data science, RStudio Cloud is a cloud-based solution that allows you to do so online. The RStudio Cloud team has rolled out new features and improvements since our last post in May 2021. So what’s new? C...

I am thrilled to share that my article “Bringing the World to the Classroom: Teaching Statistics and Programming in a Project-Based Setting” is published in PS: Political Science and Politics as an open-access article. I set up and tested ...

Way back in 2018, long before the pandemic, I described a soon-to-be implemented simstudy function genMultiFac that facilitates the generation of multi-factorial study data. I followed up that post with a description of how we can use these types of efficient designs to answer multiple questions in the context of a ...

Apache Parquet is a popular column storage file format used by Hadoop systems, such as Pig, Spark, and Hive. The file format is language independent and has a binary representation. Parquet is used to efficiently store large data sets and has the extension .parquet. This blog post aims to understand ...

An interesting case on X validated of someone puzzled by the simulation (and variance) of the random variable 1/X when being able to simulate X. And being surprised at the variance of the ratio being way larger than the variances of both numerator and ...

Whether you’re just starting your journey to developing a successful app or riding a wave of adoption, it’s a good idea to build durable R code. Projects that are built with durable code are built to adapt.  Having well-thought-out coding practices in place doesn’t prevent the challenges ...

How to Remove Outliers in R?, What does outlier mean? It’s an observation that differs significantly from the rest of the data set’s values. Outliers can skew the results by providing false information. We’ll go over how to elimin...

How to Remove Outliers in R?, What does outlier mean? It’s an observation that differs significantly from the rest of the data set’s values. Outliers can skew the results by providing false information. We’ll... The post How to Remove Outliers in R appeared first on finnstats.

One hundred sixty new packages covering a wide array of topics made it to CRAN in August. I thought I would emphasize the breadth of topics by expanding the number of categories organizing my “Top 40” selections beyond core categories that appear month after month. Here are my picks in fourteen ...

If you’re searching for Cloud services, it’s safe to assume you know about Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS cloud platform is arguably the most popular cloud provider, contending its place among the likes of Azure, Google, and IBM. AWS offers a large set of cloud-based products including ...

This post implements a simple asset-liability cash flow matching using Excel and R. This example is a linear programming (LP) model but will serve as a foundation for the advanced ALM modeling techniques such as two-stage or multi-stage stochastic l...

25 September 2021 Yes fellow R friends, the book list keeps growing nicely. Thank you very much to the contributors (both in submissions and for authoring these books!) : Colin Fay , Robert D. Brown III , William Becker and Tony Hirst JavaScript 4 Shiny – Field Notes by Colin … The post 6 New books added to BigBookofR: ...