R Weekly 2017-37 Social Science, Time, Compare

11 Sep 2017

Highlight

• Data Visualization for Social Science - A practical introduction with R and ggplot2

• It’s tibbletime: Time-Aware Tibbles

• Thou shalt not compare numeric values (except when it works)

Insights

• R Markdown for documents with logos, watermarks, and corporate styles

• Thou shalt not compare numeric values (except when it works)

• The summer of ggplot2 - wooooo!

• 👩‍💻🚙👯: My googledrive internship

• Writing and Publishing my first R package

R in the Real World

• Finding the pattern of food

• Getting a Window into your Black Box Model

• genderBR - Predict gender from Brazilian first names

• The search ‘for’ w’if’i

• Flawed code served as icing on the cake for Prime Minister’s social agency launch

• Animated Maps in R with SF and gganimate

• Simple Binary Data Visualization

• Analyzing Google Trends Data in R

• Unravelling the European Football Transfer Window

R in Academia

• Journal of Statistical Software Vol 80

R Internationally

• Premiers pas en Machine Learning avec R. Volume 4 : random forest

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci OzUnconference coming to Melbourne

• Experiences as a first time rOpenSci package reviewer

Resources

• New RStudio Cheat Sheets

• rworkshops - Materials for R Workshops

• Data Visualization for Social Science - A practical introduction with R and ggplot2

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• remedy — RStudio Addins to Simplify Markdown Writing

• tibbletime - It’s tibbletime: Time-Aware Tibbles

• writexl - zero dependency xlsx writer for R

• googledrive - googledrive allows you to interact with files on Google Drive from R.

• mschart - 📊 mschart: office charts from R

Package Releases

• Spelling 1.0 - quick and effective spell checking in R

• tidyr 0.7.0 - Erratum tidyr 0.7.0

• RStudio Connect v1.5.6 - Now Supporting Kerberos!

Tutorials

• Readability Redux

• Pair Programming Statistical Analyses

• Permutation Theory In Action

• alphavantager: An R interface to the Free Alpha Vantage Financial Data API

• It is Needlessly Difficult to Count Rows Using dplyr

• Deep Dive - Y. Ogata’s Residual Analysis for Point Processes

• Migrating from GitHub to GitLab with RStudio (Tutorial)

• cdparcoord: Parallel Coordinates Plots for Categorical Data

• Leverage Up When You’re Down?

• Preview of EARL London 2017

• Keras for R

• Geospatial Queries - R and MongoDB

• Data Science for Fraud Detection

• The Ultimate Guide To Partitioning Clustering

• Knime 3.4 connections to Microsoft R, Azure

• Text Message Classification

• Some thoughts about Bayesian Kriging in INLA

• RStudio 1.1 Preview - New Features in RStudio Server Pro

• The writexl package: zero dependency xlsx writer for R

• Combined Linear Congruential Generators with R

• In case you missed it: August 2017 roundup

• Naive Principal Component Analysis (using R)

• Infographic-style charts using the R waffle package

• Hurricane Harvey’s rains, visualized in R by USGS

• Time Dependent Classification

• Because it’s Friday: Can’t find the one

• Remember: p-values Are Not Effect Sizes

• R Markdown for documents with logos, watermarks, and corporate styles by @ellis2013nz

• Getting Rid of the .DS_Store Crap

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• The X11 device no longer uses the Xlib backing store (PR#16497).

Upcoming Events

• RStudio conf 2018 January 31 to February 3
  rstudio::conf is about all things R and RStudio! Register & More infos

• R/Finance 2018 June 1 and 2
  Applied Finance with R. More info

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

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Jobs

• Paris R expert - ThinkR

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