Text Mining has become quite mainstream nowadays as the tools to make a reasonable text analysis are ready to be exploited and give astoundingly nice and reasonable results. At BNOSAC, we use it mainly for text mining on call center data, poetry, salesforce data, emails, HR reviews, IT logged tickets, ... [Read more...]

We recently opened up the BelgiumMaps.StatBel package and made it available at https://github.com/bnosac/BelgiumMaps.StatBel. This R package contains maps with administrative boundaries (national, regions, provinces, districts, municipalities, statistical sectors, agglomerations (200m)) of Belgium extracted from Open Data at Statistics Belgium.  The package is a data-only ... [Read more...]

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With the release of RStudio add-in possibilities, a new area of productivity increase and expected new features for R users has arrived. Thanks to the help of Oliver who has written an RStudio add-in on top of taskscheduleR, scheduling and automating a... [Read more...]

For those of you who are interested in web scraping with R. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. The talk is about using rvest, RSelenium and our own package scrapeit.core which makes scraping deployment, ... [Read more...]

Last call for registration of the course on Advanced R programming topics. Next week on February 17/18, the yearly R course on Advanced R programming topics in Leuven (Belgium) is scheduled. Registration can be done at https://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/coursedescriptions/AdvancedprogramminginR.html. The course is rewritten based on 3 years ... [Read more...]

On 22/10/2015, the Belgium government launched its Open Data initiative by releasing a number of datasets related to population statistics, fiscal information, 'kadaster', the 2011 census and some tools. Because BNOSAC works a lot with these kind of data and because we like to promote open data, an R package called BelgiumStatistics ... [Read more...]

Last week, we had a great course on Text Mining with R at the European Data Innovation Hub. For persons interested in text mining with R, another 1-day crash course is scheduled at the Leuven Statistics Research Center (Belgium) on November 17 (http:... [Read more...]

Waw, our course list for teaching R is getting bigger and bigger. We have now courses on basic, R, advanced R, R package building, statistical machine learning with R, text mining with R and spatial analysis with R. All face-to-face courses given in ... [Read more...]

For persons interested in advancing their knowledge on R and data science with R, BNOSAC offers a range of courses for R users. These cover courses on - R analytics (Statistical Machine Learning with R, Text mining with R, Applied Spatial modelling... [Read more...]

BNOSAC will be giving from June 08 up to June 12 a 5-day crash course on the use of R using Oracle R Enterprise. The course is given together with our Oracle Partner in Leuven, Belgium. If you are interested in attending, contact us for further details. For R users who aren't ... [Read more...]

We will be showcasing our RMOA package at the next R User conference in Aalborg. For the R users who are unfamiliar with streaming modelling and want to be ahead of the Gartner Hype cycle or want to evaluate existing streaming machine learning models, RMOA allows to build, run and ... [Read more...]

For those of you who are interested in using R alongside Google Maps by using the packages geonames (www.geonames.org), RgoogleMaps, ggmap, loa and plotKML. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. &nbs... [Read more...]

For those of you who are interested in using R alongside Robotics applications and want to use ROS (Robot Operating System) together with R. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. If you ... [Read more...]

The next RBelgium meetup will be about R & Google Maps and R & Robotics (ROS). BNOSAC will be hosting the event this time. This is the schedule: • 17h30-18h: open questions • 18h-19h: R and Google Maps • 19h-20h: R and... [Read more...]

CRAN mirrors are the backbone to everyday common R usage. They provide the R website and most of the R packages today. Currently there are about 104 official CRAN mirrors. Hosting a CRAN mirror is one step to help the R community and is explained here. To ease that process, at ... [Read more...]

This year, BNOSAC offers 2 R courses in cooperation with the Leuven Statistics Research Center. The courses are part of the Leuven STATistics STATe of the Art Training Initiative and are given in Leuven (Belgium). For R users and data scientists... [Read more...]

Last week, we released the RMOA package at CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMOA). It is an R package to allow building streaming classification and regression models on top of MOA. MOA is the acronym of 'Massive Online Analysis' and it is the most popular open source framework ... [Read more...]

For those of you who don't know MOA. MOA stands for Massive On-line Analysis and is an open-source framework that allows to build and run experiments of machine learning or data mining on evolving data streams. The website of MOA (http://moa.cms.waikato.ac.nz) indicates it contains machine ... [Read more...]

Within 2 weeks on Thursday, March 20, The RBelgium R user group is holding its next Regular meeting in Brussels for which this is the schedule: ** Analysis and visualisation of climate data from the atmospheric model ALADIN using the Rfa package... [Read more...]