R Weekly 2018-26 Chat, Highlight

25 Jun 2018

Highlight

• Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings

• Re-introduction to gghighlight: Highlight ggplot2 with Predicates

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

CRAN

• dqrng - Fast random number generators (RNG) with good statistical properties

GitHub or Bitbucket

• Simplify your rmarkdown workflow using the reportfactory

Package Releases

• vtreat 1.2.0 - A Statistically Sound ‘data.frame’ Processor/Conditioner

• RStudio Connect v1.6.4

Insights

• Drinking from the Firehose: using R to keep up with current ML and AI research

• PYPL Language Rankings: Python ranks #1, R at #7 in popularity

• Neural networks are essentially polynomial regression

R in the Real World

• Really not a fish? Scraping my mathematical family tree

• What goes up, must Blogdown: Version 3 (or 4) of jwhollister.com

• Aync scraping and text classification of GDPR policies, and interpreting the results with DALEX.

• Recreating visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful” by David McCandless in R

• Awesome Twitter Word Clouds in R

• Separating and Trimming Messy Data the Tidy Way - a tidy approach to separate concatenated column data in R and demonstrates the importance of trimming whitespace

• Use Shiny to map visa-free countries where the citizens of two different countries can travel - source code

• Player Data for the 2018 FIFA World Cup

• Which base R functions were most and least used in ~ 50 randomly selected CRAN packages?

• Recreating (more) data visualizations from the book “Knowledge is Beautiful”: Part II

Resources

• Launched R for Operations Research - tutorials and articles around mixed integer linear programming and R. Open to contributions on Github.

• Colours & Impact: Resources for Data Visualization with a splash of R

• AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: June 2018

Videos and Podcasts

• RECON R tips are online - latest post is on anonymising linelists data during epidemics

• Tutorial on Shiny authenticating with Google Cloud text-to-speech APIs and a custom HTML theme

R in Organizations

• Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings

Tutorials

• Re-introduction to gghighlight: Highlight ggplot2 with Predicates

• Comparing an auto neural network (forecast::nnetar) vs. a manual model done in Keras for time-series predictions

• Creating Slopegraphs with R

• A guide to working with character data in R

• Parallelizing Linear Regression or Using Multiple Sources

• Idle thoughts lead to R internals: how to count function arguments

• Explaining Keras image classification models with lime

• Prediction Interval, the wider sister of Confidence Interval

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• 7eme Rencontres R July 5 & 6
  Rennes - Agrocampus

• useR! 2018 July 10
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

• LatinR 2018 Sept 4-5
  Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Upcoming R Community Events (week of 2018-06-18)

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

Occasionally you have to read data into #rstats where one observation is split across multiple rows. A handy pattern to fix is to mutate, fill, and filter pic.twitter.com/be7JQNscCE

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) June 22, 2018

My uber driver told me he was trying to learn SPSS when I told him I'm a data scientist. So I spent the entire 15 minute ride putting forth a very compelling argument about him learning #rstats instead 😁

— Shoili (@shoilipal) June 18, 2018

A bit of fun with 186 hexagon stickers! Roughly sorted by hue to give a colour spectrum of #rstats packages.
Is your sticker missing? Send it to [email protected] by midnight UTC time to be added to the @useR2018_conf feature wall. pic.twitter.com/f0pMam7HmP

— Mitchell O'Hara-Wild (@mitchoharawild) June 14, 2018

Yessssssssss, you can play #Tetris, #Mario, #Pacman, 2048, Spider Solitaire and others in #RStudio with {Rcade} package https://t.co/S7jx3EV6Mg #rstats kuddos to @RLesur #procrastinate 🤩🎉 pic.twitter.com/bM70t1pkuk

— Olivier Gimenez (@oaggimenez) June 15, 2018

Over 100 htmlwidgets on the #rstats htmlwidgets gallery! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to all the contributors! https://t.co/KdFfnqCh00 pic.twitter.com/CoL7B2qwx0

— Ryan Hafen (@hafenstats) June 15, 2018