Hello and happy new year. Hope you have a nice cup of Yorkshire tea ready to read this we are going to review each driver’s performance in the 2021 season. I’m going to do this using my expected position metric detailed here theparttimeanalyst.com/2021/05/11/f1-drivers-rated-version-2/ The drivers are ...

On December 6th, 2021, the RStudio Enterprise Community Meetup hosted an event, Using RStudio on Amazon SageMaker. In the meetup, James Blair covered: Setting up RStudio Workbench on SageMaker A use case for training a model and deploying to SageMaker...

TidyTuesday, the weekly social data project that brings together R users, is a great way to connect to the R community and learn to wrangle and visualize data. But more importantly, it is a superb chance to learn new data visualization skills by doing thieving. Let me elaborate. Each week, ...

As I was waiting for my boat on a French Guiana beach last week, I thought back about a recent riddle from The Riddler where an item does a random walk over a sequence of N integers. Behind doors. The player opens a door at the same rate as the ...

Introduction With my recent breakthrough in figuring out how OOP works in R by using R6 classes, a whole new world of possibilities is open to explore with it. While R is defined by Wikipedia) as “[…] a programming language for statistical computing and graphics” R6 classes allow for applications of ...

One day I realized that I finally really understood what “statistical significance” means (p __ .01). I had probably heard the term hundreds of times by then. If you are still struggling with the concept, I hope it doesn’t take you this long and perhaps this post can be of help. ...

“You can best learn data mining and data science by doing, so start analyzing data as soon as you can! However, don’t forget to learn the theory, since you need a good statistical and machine learning foundation to understand what you are doing and to find real nuggets of ...

Like many people, I’ve gotten sucked into wordle. For those unfamiliar with the game, you are tasked with identifying a five-letter word. You input a guess (which must be a five-letter word) and are told whether each letter in your guess is: not...

Cover photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash Go to R-bloggers for R news and tutorials contributed by hundreds of R bloggers. Introduction This is the third of a series of 6 articles about time series forecasting with panel data and ensemble stacking wit...

Playing a simple guessing game with R. It’s called Mastermind game! This game was originally created for two people, but R version will be for single-player mode, when an R developer or R data scientists need a break. The gameplay…Read more ›

This is part 1 of a series on “Handling Categorical Data in R.” Almost every data science project involves working with categorical data, and we should know how to read, store, summarize, visualize & manipulate such data. Working with categor...

So, you want to become an R Shiny Developer? 2022 is the year to do it. Learning a new language, library, or framework can be stressful – even expensive at times! That’s why we decided to share the 7 best R Shiny books and courses you can follow from the comfort of ...

The R Markdown file format combines R programming and the markdown language to create dynamic, reproducible documents. Authors use R Markdown for reports, slide shows, blogs, books — even Shiny apps! But, how can users ensure that their R Markdow...