In June 2020, GitHub announced that is was moving the default branch name from master to the more neutral name, main. GitLab followed suit in a few months later. Tobie Langel makes the salient point on why changing the name is a good thing: So master is not only racist, it’...

 Part of the motivation behind making the course Statistics and Gambling is to infuse new applicability into introductory or intermediate probability courses. This blog post is a look at how the course is going to cover familiar probability topics...

Data science is advancing into nearly every industry from pharma and banking to sales and logistics. And why not — when data science is properly integrated it results in a performance boost, faster implementation, or process automation (read: money, money, money). The pharmaceutical and medical industries are no exception. Every top ...

Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R, In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert categorical values into quantitative values to make statistical modeling easier. Most statistical models can’t take in strings as inputs. We&#82...

Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R, In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert categorical values into quantitative values to make statistical modeling easier. Most statistical models can’t take in strings as inputs.... The post Convert Categorical Variable to Numeric in R appeared first on finnstats.

R consortium talks to Nino Macharashvili of DataFest Tbilisi (also on Facebook) on how they are dealing with life in the COVID age. As they were one of the early... The post DataFest Tbilisi talks about AI, the need for people, and setting up teaching programs appeared first on R ...

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/ Reshaping time-to-event data The first thing we should consider before working through this tutorial is the str...

Fathom Data has been doing a lot of work with the HCRIS (Healthcare Cost Report Information System) data. The underlying reports are submitted as a spreadsheet with multiple sheets. The data are then extracted and recorded in a simple tabular format, with each field linked to a worksheet code (wksht_...

This year 2021, we are witnessing a rare spectacle in the cricketing universe, where IPL playoffs are immediately followed by ICC World Cup T20. Cricket pundits have claimed such a phenomenon occurs once in 127 years! Jokes apart, the World cup T20 is underway and as usual GooglyPlusPlus is ready for the ...

The largest data journalism conference in Latin America reaches its sixth edition in a row bringing discussions on the climate crisis, access to information, and data protection, in addition to... The post Largest Data Journalism Conference in Latin America Coda.Br Starts Nov 8 appeared first on R Consortium.

Binning in R, you will learn about data binning in this tutorial. Binning develops distinct categories from numerical data that are frequently continuous. It’s very handy for comparing different sets of data. Binning is a pre-processing proce...

Introduction Over the past while with my time on LinkedIn, I got to have exposure to many people from many different lines of work. I also managed to have carved a space for myself there where I can post about Data Science topics and share my blogs along the way. ...

I love movies. I enjoy watching them, I enjoy reading about the industry (sometimes), and as a bit of a data-nerd (exhibit a: my blog), I enjoy learning about the outliers in the industry. One of my favorite trends to follow is the shifting dynamics of Hollywood being driven more ...

How to join this free online event with Noam Ross, Rebecca Killick, Christoph Sax and Juliane Manitz. This is the second in a series of 1-hour Community Calls on our statistical software review project. We at rOpenSci have expanded the scope of our software peer review system to encompass explicitly ...

Being able to view related messages as threads is really useful. To make this possible, messages must use either the In-Reply-To or References header field to link to the Message-ID from another message. This is now possible in {emayili}. library(emayili) options(envelope.details = TRUE) options(envelope.invisible = FALSE) packageVersion("...

This post makes a user-defined R function for Adams and Deventer (1994, revised 2010) maximum smoothness forward curve for the purpose of reusing and performs robustness checks for various initial term structures. We find that every time an initial ...