As referenced in my last blog post, useR Delhi NCR is all set to host our second meetup on 15th December, i.e. upcoming Saturday. We’ve finalized two exciting speaker sessions for the same. They’re as follows: Basics of Shiny and …

Time really does fly. It’s been 5 months since Delhi NCR useR group had come into being and our first meetup. It was a successful event which included sessions featuring an R-core member and a veteran data scientist. More importantly, …

In my last post, I’d pointed out the importance of a local community and described how Delhi NCR useR group came about. It’s been a month since we’d started the group and I’m excited to announce that our first meetup is scheduled to take place on 14...

“The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.” – Jeff Bridges Over the past few years, R’s adoption has grown rapidly throughout the world. Much of it can be attributed to the growth of ‘data science’ as a domain. But ...

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. – Martin Golding In previous posts, I had discussed how Rperform can be used to obtain and visualize package performance data. However, real-world software development is a collaborative process. ...

Developer: Akash Tandon Mentors: Joshua Ulrich, Toby Dylan Hocking Official Project Link: Rperform: performance analysis of R package code This project meant to deal primarily with development of Rperform’s functionalities to allow developers to obtain potential performance impacts of a pull request (PR) without having to merge, extension of ...

I recently participated in a weekend-long data science hackathon, titled ‘The Smart Recruits’. Organized by the amazing folks at Analytics Vidhya, it saw some serious competition. Although my performance can be classified as decent at best (47 out of 379 participants), it was among the more satisfying ones I have participated in ...

“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming In a previous post, I had discussed how Rperform uses the grammar of graphics approach to visualize an R package’s performance in terms of runtime and memory usage. The visualizations contribute significantly towards Rperform’s mission to ...

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. ―John Tukey Replace ‘picture’ in the above quote with ‘data visualization’ and it will still ring true; maybe even more so. To provide valuable insights to package developers is exactly what ...

Rperform had started as a GSoC 2015 project with an aim to “to provide a package with functions that make it easy for R package developers to track quantitative performance metrics of their code, over time.” Much of the functionality required for the same was implemented over the course of last ...