R Weekly 2018-49 parsnip, Validation

03 Dec 2018

Highlight

• Community Call Summary - Code Review in the Labropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• parsnipwww.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

• A tutorial on tidy cross-validation with Rwww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

Insights

• Coming soon: tibble 2.0.0www.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

• The new pqR parser, and R’s “else” problemradfordneal.wordpress.com ( radfordneal.wordpress.com ) 

• The Case Against Precision as a Model Selection Criterionwww.datascienceblog.net ( datascienceblog.net ) 

• Faster garbage collection in pqRradfordneal.wordpress.com ( radfordneal.wordpress.com ) 

R in the Real World

• Co-localization analysis of fluorescence microscopy imagesropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• How Do We Judge a Probabilistic Model? Or, How Did FiveThirtyEight Do in Forecasting the 2018 Midterms?www.markhw.com ( markhw.com ) 

• Number of births in the twentieth centuryfreerangestats.info ( freerangestats.info ) 

• Holiday Designs in R and Using R in Industryrladies-baltimore.github.io ( rladies-baltimore.github.io ) 

• NYC buses: Cubist regression with more predictorsdatascienceplus.com ( datascienceplus.com ) 

R in Organizations

• Community Call Summary - Code Review in the Labropensci.org ( ropensci.org ) 

• Tidyverse developer day 2019www.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• parsnipwww.tidyverse.org - A tidy unified interface to models ( tidyverse.org ) 

• October 2018: “Top 40” New Packages rviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• AzureRMRblog.revolutionanalytics.com - an R interface to Azure Resource Manager ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

Updated Packages

• styler 1.1.0lorenzwalthert.netlify.com ( lorenzwalthert.netlify.com ) 

• RcppEigen 0.3.3.5.0dirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• RQuantLib 0.4.6: Updated upstream, and calls for helpdirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 

• tidymodels package updateswww.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

Tutorials

• How to improve your visualizations in R www.thinkingondata.com ( thinkingondata.com ) 

• How to work with strings in base R - An overview of 20+ methods for daily use.jozefhajnala.gitlab.io ( jozefhajnala.gitlab.io ) 

• Neural Network Embedding of the Over-Dispersed Poisson Reserving Modelronaldrichman.co.za ( ronaldrichman.co.za ) 

• A tutorial on tidy cross-validation with Rwww.brodrigues.co ( brodrigues.co ) 

• Introducing compareAreas: Area Polygons for Humansdaranzolin.github.io ( daranzolin.github.io ) 

• Slack and Plumber, Part Tworviews.rstudio.com ( rviews.rstudio.com ) 

• Horses for courses, or to each model its own (causal effect)www.rdatagen.net ( rdatagen.net ) 

• R now supported in Azure SQL Databaseblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Radar plotswww.datascienceblog.net ( datascienceblog.net ) 

• plotting traditional colours of japanchichacha.netlify.com ( chichacha.netlify.com ) 

• Machine Learning Basics - Gradient Boosting & XGBoostshirinsplayground.netlify.com ( shirinsplayground.netlify.com ) 

• Simulating dinosaur populations, with Rblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Because it’s Friday: If planets were as close as the moonblog.revolutionanalytics.com ( revolutionanalytics.com ) 

• Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpointwww.johnmackintosh.com ( johnmackintosh.com ) 

• How to create automated analysis using rnandeshwar.info ( nandeshwar.info ) 

• Sleek & Shinystatistica.it ( statistica.it ) 

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetingsjumpingrivers.github.io ( jumpingrivers.github.io ) 

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventscommunity.rstudio.com ( community.rstudio.com ) 

More past events at R conferences & meetupsconf.rweekly.org. ( conf.rweekly.org ) 

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

Ladies, if he:

- wastes your money
- makes it hard to work with others
- locks you into long term contracts
- patronizes you with point-and-click GUIs that don’t preserve data lineage

He’s not your man. He’s legacy enterprise stats software. Dump him for some #rstatstwitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

— Emily Riederer (@EmilyRiederer) November 29, 2018twitter.com ( twitter.com ) 

1/4‼️rayshader 0.8.0 feature preview! Tired of rectangular maps? Want to mix things up with a circle? Or a hexagon? Or how about any shape you want🤯? No problem! Arbitrary map shapes coming in the next version of #rayshadertwitter.com #rstatstwitter.com pic.twitter.com/VJuWzAKqbet.co ( twitter.com ) 

— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) November 30, 2018twitter.com ( twitter.com )