Articles by R Views

Building A Neural Net from Scratch Using R – Part 2

July 23, 2020 | R Views

Akshaj is a budding deep learning researcher who loves to work with R. He has worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science and as a Data Scientist at KPMG India. In the previous post, we went through the dataset, the pre-processing involved, train-test split, and talked ...

Building A Neural Net from Scratch Using R – Part 1

July 19, 2020 | R Views

Akshaj is a budding deep learning researcher who loves to work with R. He has worked as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science and as a Data Scientist at KPMG India. A lot of deep learning frameworks often abstract away the mechanics behind training a neural network. ...

R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp – Part 2

July 13, 2020 | R Views

Daniel Hanson is a full-time lecturer in the Computational Finance & Risk Management program within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His appointment followed over 25 years of experience in private sector quantitative development in finance and data science. In the first post in this series, we looked ...

R Package Integration with Modern Reusable C++ Code Using Rcpp

July 7, 2020 | R Views

Daniel Hanson is a full-time lecturer in the Computational Finance & Risk Management program within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His appointment followed over 25 years of experience in private sector quantitative development in finance and data science. One of the most time-consuming, tedious, and thankless tasks ...

Open-Source Authorship of Data Science in Education Using R

June 30, 2020 | R Views

Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of STEM Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In earlier posts, we shared how we wrote Data Science in Education Using R as an open book (Post 1, Post 2). In this post, we describe what we consider to be the open-source authorship ...

May 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

June 23, 2020 | R Views

One hundred eighty-four new packages stuck to CRAN in May. The following are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Data, Finance, Genomics, Marketing, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data covid19nytimes v0.1.3: Provides accesses the NY Times Covid-19 county-level data for the US that is ...

R Can Pull the Fire Alarm!

June 17, 2020 | R Views

Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at Old Dominion University There are times when it would be really nice to get an email from R. Maybe you ...

Learning R With Education Datasets

June 10, 2020 | R Views

Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Timothy Gallwey wrote in The Inner Game of Tennis: …There is a natural learning process which operates within everyone, if it is allowed to. This process is waiting ... [Read more...]

More Select COVID-19 Resources

June 2, 2020 | R Views

We are over five months into this pandemic, and it is pretty clear that almost everyone is really tired of hearing about it. I myself am totally zoomed out and have already seen too many dashboards. Nevertheless, we are in this for the long run. So from time-to-time, I think ...

April 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

May 27, 2020 | R Views

One hundred forty-eight new packages made it to CRAN in April. Here are my “Top 40” picks in nine categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods JuliaConnectoR v0.6.0: Allows users to import Julia packages and functions in such a way that they ...

Community and Collaboration: Writing Our Book in the Open

May 25, 2020 | R Views

Ryan A. Estrellado is a public education leader and data scientist helping administrators use practical data analysis to improve the student experience. Chicken Farm in the Open In 2017, Emily Bovee, Jesse Mostipak, Joshua Rosenberg, Isabella Velásquez, and I started work on our book, Data Science in Education Using R (...

Modern Rule-Based Models

May 20, 2020 | R Views

Modern Rule-Based Models Machine learning models come in many shapes and sizes. While deep learning models currently have the lion’s share of coverage, there are many other classes of models that are effective across many different problem domains. This post gives a short summary of several rule-based models that ...

An R View into Epidemiology

May 19, 2020 | R Views

If you have been tracking the numbers for the COVID-19 pandemic, you must have looked at dozens of models and tried to make some comparisons. Even under the best of situations it is difficult to compare models, and this is especially true if you don’t have sufficient domain knowledge. ...

Congratulations Class of 2020!

May 15, 2020 | R Views

Yesterday, along with R-Ladies Founder Gabriela de Queiroz I was honored to be asked to give a short talk at an online graduation ceremony for the BSc and MSc Statistics Graduates of the class of 2020 (all R users) at the California State University, East Bay. My talk contains some statistics ...

Some Upcoming R Related, Virtual Events

May 7, 2020 | R Views

COVID-19 Data Forum Webinar - Next Thursday (5/14/20) at Noon Pacific time, the COVID-19 Data Forum, sponsored by R Consortium and the Stanford Data Science Institute will open with a public webinar. The purpose of the Forum is to provide a way for experts to focus on data-related aspects of the ...

Greg Wilson Wins ACM Influential Educator Award

May 3, 2020 | R Views

Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) recognized Greg Wilson as the 2020 recipient of its prestigious Influential Educator Award which is awarded annually to individuals or groups who have made significant contributions to software engineering through education, mentoring or policy. JBR: ... [Read more...]

March 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

April 26, 2020 | R Views

Two hundred ninety-six new packages made it to CRAN in March. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods celltrackR v0.3.1: Provides a methodology to analyze cells that move in a two- or three-dimensional ...

10 Commands to Get Started with Git

April 22, 2020 | R Views

Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. Git and its online extensions like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab are essential tools for data science. While the emphasis is often on collaboration, Git can also be very useful to the solo practitioner. The RStudio IDE ...

The Case for tidymodels

April 20, 2020 | R Views

If you are a data scientist with a built-out set of modeling tools that you know well, and which are almost always adequate for getting your work done, it is probably difficult for you to imagine what would induce you to give them up. Changing out what works is a ...

State Unemployment Claims

April 15, 2020 | R Views

In today’s Reproducible Finance post, we will explore state-level unemployment claims which get released every Thursday. The last few weeks have shown huge spikes in those claims, of course, due to the coronavirus and statewide lockdown orders, and it got me wondering how these times will look to data ...

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