Current State Using databases is unavoidable for those who analyze data as part of their jobs. As R developers, our first instinct may be to approach databases the same way we do regular files. We may attempt to read the data either all at once or as few times as ...

Shiny Apps are becoming ubiquitous as a way for data scientists to present the results of an analysis, and also to engage with information consumers who may not be coders. The trend I see is that the greater the variety of skills and interests of the information consumers for any ...

The 2017 New York R Conference was held last weekend in Manhattan. For the third consecutive year, the organizers - a partnership including Lander Analytics, The New York Meetup and Work-Bench - pulled off a spectacular event. There was a wide range of outstanding talks, some technical and others more philosophical, ...

With roots dating back to at least 1662 when John Graunt, a London merchant, published an extensive set of inferences based on mortality records, Survival Analysis is one of the oldest subfields of Statistics [1]. Basic life-table methods, including techniques for dealing with censored data, were known before 1700 [2]. In the early eighteenth ...

R’s startup behavior is incredibly powerful. R sets environment variables, loads base packages, and understands whether you’re running a script, an interactive session, or even a build command. Most R users will never have to worry about changing R’s startup process. In fact, for portability and reproducibility ...

R’s startup behavior is incredibly powerful. R sets environment variables, loads base packages, and understands whether you’re running a script, an interactive session, or even a build command. Most R users will never have to worry about changing R’s startup process. In fact, for portability and reproducibility ...

Two hundred and sixteen new packages were added to CRAN in March. The following are my picks for the Top Forty, organized into five categories: Bioscience, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Bioscience BioInstaller v0.0.3: Provides tools to install and download massive bioinformatics analysis software and database, such as NGS ...

Two hundred and sixteen new packages were added to CRAN in March. The following are my picks for the Top Forty, organized into five categories: Bioscience, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Bioscience BioInstaller v0.0.3: Provides tools to install and download massive bioinformatics analysis software and database, such as NGS ...

At data.world, we are out to solve the “first mile problem of data science”: helping people obtain and understand the data sets they need. Everybody starts here whether they are analyzing their fantasy football league or working on the Zika pa...

At data.world, we are out to solve the “first mile problem of data science”: helping people obtain and understand the data sets they need. Everybody starts here whether they are analyzing their fantasy football league or working on the Zika pa...

Organizing an event can be a full-time task in and of its own. I have been organizing ASA DataFest for six years at Duke, and over this time, the number of participants has grown from 23 students from Duke only, to 360 students from seven area schools this year! First, a bit ...

Organizing an event can be a full-time task in and of its own. I have been organizing ASA DataFest for six years at Duke, and over this time, the number of participants has grown from 23 students from Duke only, to 360 students from seven area schools this year! First, a bit ...

This month’s Tips and Tricks focus is on file navigation. Many of these tips are straightforward - more tip than trick - but they can save quite a bit of time and frustration. Open Recent Please don’t spend time navigating through your folder stru...