When developing credit risk scorecards, it is generally a good idea to discretise (bin) numeric variables in a manner that ensures monotonically increasing or decreasing event rates as the variable increases or decreases. While discretising individual variables adds stability to the model, monotonic bins ensure that the model output is ...

In a previous post I documented a new feature in {emayili}, the ability to render Plain Markdown directly into the body of an email message. Today I’m announcing the release of a new minor version, 0.5.0, in which {emayili} is now able to render R Markdown into an email. This ...

Many of us have become addicted to The NY Times COVID maps — maps of US state or county level data colored by cases, vaccinations, per capita infections, etc. While recreating maps like these in R is possible, it is disappointingly difficult. The just released MazamaSpatialPlots R package takes a first ...

Bilikisu Aderinto, Founder/Organizer of the Abuja R User Group and R-Ladies Abuja, talks about the lack of R User groups in her area, and her desire to start one, leading... The post Creating Successful R User Groups in Abuja, Nigeria appeared first on R Consortium.

It is all about measuring time using useless clocks. Script takes a system time and displays any given clock in a rather “static” way. You can choose between analog, small digital and big digital clock. And when playing with the…Read more ›

How to Identify Outliers, The Grubbs’ Technique is a statistical test that may be used to detect outliers in a dataset. A dataset should be generally normally distributed and have at least 7 observations to use this test. This article show...

Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash RStudio has worked with hundreds of different data science teams, and we’ve seen three key strategies that help maximize their productivity and impact: Adopting open source as the core of their work Leadi...

R Consortium talks to LA R Users founder Szilard Pafka about how the community started, how they adapted to the pandemic and how things have evolved in the past fifteen... The post LA R Expands Beyond California appeared first on R Consortium.

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R” learning path: from the basis of the syntax, to operations and functions, for solid programming foundations. R is one of the most popular programming, scripting, and markup languages. Wr...

Candlestick plots are something you see regularly when dealing with stocks. Whether you are an investor, an analyst or even an outsider, this type of chart always in interesting to look at. In this brief blog, I’m going to share a custom function I made for making a candlestick ...

Upcoming event: PSI Scientific Meeting: Generating Insights through Modern Applications of Data Visualisation While data visualisation has been used to gain insights into medical data for over 150 years, modern methods including... The post Register now! PSI Scientific Meeting: Generating Insights through Modern Applications of Data Visualisation appeared first on R ...

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast focuses only on data preprocessing, or feature engineering; let’s walk throug...