R Weekly 2018-53 vroom, Classification

31 Dec 2018

Highlight

• vroom - An experiment with lazily reading indexed files

• Text classification with tidy data principles

Insights

• My #Best9of2018 tweets

• On Marketing (on Social Media)

• On Disagreement

R in the Real World

• Clustering the Bible

• Tidy text, parts of speech, and unique words in the Bible

• How to realise plots and wordclouds on the bibliographic references gathered during my PhD thesis

• Use R and parts-of-speech tagging to explore the Qur’an in Arabic

• Rolling Origins and Fama French

• Certifiably Gone Phishing

• The Need for Speed Part 2: C++ vs. Fortran vs. C

R in Organizations

• Building an Rstats Workstation

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• textrecipes 0.0.1 - Extra recipes for Text Processing

GitHub or Bitbucket

• vroom - An experiment with lazily reading indexed files

• quRan - An R package for the complete text of the Qur’an

Updated Packages

• readr 1.3.1 - Read Rectangular Text Data

Videos and Podcasts

• Cracking into the Meat of R with lobstr: Console Visualisations that Explain How Stuff Works

Tutorials

• Part 4: Why does bias occur in optimism corrected bootstrapping?

• Survey Raking: An Illustration

• Using emojis as scatterplot points

• Optimism corrected bootstrapping: a problematic method

• How to parameterise a prior when all you know is the mean and one other percentile

• 5 amazing free tools that can help with publishing R results and blogging

• Simulating Persian Monarchs gameplay

• spice rap, rap splice

• Objects types and some useful R functions for beginners

• R 101

• Text classification with tidy data principles

• Some fun with {gganimate}

• Statistical Assessments of AUC

• Finally, You Can Plot H2O Decision Trees in R

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Call for Participation

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Quotes of the Week

An #rstats #blogdown file hierarchy cheatsheet:

├─ archetypes <- edit me!
├─ config.toml <- edit me!
├─ content <- edit me!
├─ data <- edit me!
├─ layouts <- edit me!
├─ public <- ignore me!
├─ static <- use me! (png/pdf/csv/xls)
├─ themes <- don't touch! pic.twitter.com/gvVA703Lwa

— Alison Hill (@apreshill) December 28, 2018