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Introduction Linux, known for its powerful command-line interface, offers a vast array of tools that can significantly enhance your productivity. For beginners, navigating this landscape can be daunting, but mastering a few essential commands c...

Hey guys, welcome back to my R-tips newsletter. Today, I’m excited to share with you the Top 10 R Packages for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). These packages will help you streamline your data analysis workflow and gain deeper insights into your datas...

Why Choosing the Right Visualization MattersI’ve been visualizing data for quite a few years now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that choosing the right chart can make or break your message. I’ve spent countless hours reading, learning, an...

REDATAM REDATAM (Retrieval of Data for Small Areas by Microcomputer) is a data storage and retrieval system created by ECLAC and it is widely used by national statistics offices to store and manipulate census and survey data. However, conductin...

Introduction As a beginner R programmer, you’ll often encounter situations where you need to divide your data into equal-sized groups. This process is crucial for various data analysis tasks, including cross-validation, creating balanced datase...

ROC (Receiver Operation Characteristics) – curve is a graph that shows how classifiers performs by plotting the true positive and false positive rates. It is used to evaluate the performance of binary classification models by illustrating the trade-off between True…Read more ›

We were impressed with Shiny Assistant’s performance for R Shiny apps – but you already know that. Will Shiny Assistant for Python impress us the same way? You’re about to find out. This article will show you how we used Shiny Assistant to build a Python application around the ...

On September 17, 2024, data science and engineering practitioners gathered at Impact Hub Zürich to attend our MiraiLabs workshop Scale Your Analytics: Leveraging Apache Spark in Python and R We’re happy to report that the event was a resounding s...

Introduction to Character Variables in C Character variables are fundamental building blocks in C programming, serving as the foundation for text processing and string manipulation. For beginner C programmers, understanding how to work with cha...

I needed an offline copy of an economic calendar with all of the major international economic events. After grubbing around the internet I found the Economic Calendar on Myfxbook which had everything that I needed.

Fitting multiple continuous parametric distributions on a vector of data, use Kullback-Leibler divergence for checking distribution adequation, and simulate best-fitting distribution

Hands-On Differential Privacy was published just a few months ago (from September  2024!) by (the US publisher) O’Reilly, famous for its programming and technical books with animal covers! A slate pencil sea urchin in the present case. The book is indeed classical O’Reilly’s, with lots of notes, little ...

#221–222PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #221We already had task to provide indices for some structured project, and here we go again. Once again I...

Introduction As a beginner R programmer, one of the most crucial skills you’ll need to master is data manipulation. Among the various data manipulation techniques, splitting a data frame is a fundamental operation that can significantly enhance...

mlr3 Author(s): Michel Lang, Bernd Bischl, Jakob Richter, Patrick Schratz, Martin Binder, Florian Pfisterer, Raphael Sonabend, Marc Becker, Sebastian Fischer Maintainer: Marc Becker ([email protected]) Seal of Approval mlr3 hex sticker ...

Last month, as part of the RSS pre-conference workshop for early career statisticians organised by the Young Statisticians Section, I delivered a workshop on Getting started with generative art. The slides from the workshop can be found online. I&rsquo...

As October rolls around once more, the term Hacktoberfest might pop across your feeds; an effort aiming to encourage people to contribute to open-source software, particularly if they’re new to that. In this post I’ll describe what I’m offering towards...

Models from psychometric item response theory are used to analyze the results from a large introductory mathematics exams in order to gain insights about student abilities, question difficulties, and heterogeneities of these in subgroups. ...