R Weekly 2017-23 Jobs Search and Open Data

05 Jun 2017

Highlight

• A Dive into Stack Overflow Jobs Search

R in Organizations

• useR!2017 Schedule

• Bringing Together People and Projects at Unconf17

• Reflections on ROpenSci Unconference 2017

• Watch presentations from R/Finance 2017

• Romain’s site with blogdown, hugo, rbind

• RStudio Server Pro is now available on AWS Marketplace

• A Dive into Stack Overflow Jobs Search

R in Academia

• Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools

• FRK: An R Package for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Prediction with Large Datasets

Videos and Podcasts

• Go Deep & Readers’ Feedback - R Weekly Podcast 2017 June - Podcast Feed

• Forecasting Using R - Online Course

• Data Science Podcasts

R in the Real World

• Which Emojis Does Lucy Use in Commit Messages?

• Creating the fivethirtyeight R package

• How do you feel about Last Week Tonight?

• U.S. Residential Energy Use: Machine Learning on the RECS Dataset

• How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas - GitHub

• Home advantages and wanderlust - Home and away preferences in the Premier League

• Exploring Mental Health Conditions in the Tech Workplace

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• keras - R interface to Keras

• tuRbonegro - Plays a random Turbonegro clip in your R Viewer

• reco - Matrix factorization for recommender systems, fast alternating least squares for collaborative filtering

• testrmd - Test chunks for R Markdown.

• reports - Assist the Workflow of Writing Academic Articles and Other Reports

• future.batchtools - Friendly Parallel and Distributed Processing on High-Performance Compute (HPC) clusters

• evil - Turn R users insane with evil

• jsonfeedr - R package to play with JSON feeds

• polypoly - helper functions for orthogonal polynomials

• tidycensus - Load US Census boundary and attribute data as ‘tidyverse’ and ‘sf’-ready data frames in R

• miner - R package for controlling Minecraft via API

• April New Package Picks

Package Releases

• kableExtra 0.2.1 - Build complex tables with kable & pipes

• plotly 4.7.0 - fixed coordinates, sf support & speed improvements

• simmer 3.6.2

• dataonderivatives 0.3.0 - Easily source publicly available data on derivatives

R Internationally

• Premiers pas en Machine Learning avec R. Volume 3 : k-means clustering — English - autotranslate

Gist & Cookbook

• Simple bash script for a fresh install of R and its dependencies in Linux

• Code to generate wallpaper (bivariate normal distribution)

Tutorials

• Integrating Blogdown with GitHub Pages and Travis-CI

• Managing Spark data handles in R

• Machine Learning using Spark and R

• Conditional Generative Adversarial Network with MXNet R package - Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) on MNIST images.

• Correcting bias in meta-analyses: What not to do (meta-showdown Part 1)

• Summarizing big data in R

• Selection Bias in Online Experimentation

• gdeltr2’s previously undocumented trelliscopejs wrapper around GDELT’s 24 hour free text API

• Hospital Infection Scores – R Shiny App

• Feature Selection : Select Important Variables with Boruta Package

• A Shiny App for Exploring Commodities Prices and Economic Indicators, via Quandl

• Update #2: ACS mapping with tidycensus

• trump hex and R only version

• Drilling Into CSVs — Teaser Trailer

• Python and R top 2017 KDnuggets rankings

• Shiny: data presentation with an extra

• A Partial Remedy to the Reproducibility Problem

• Testing the Hierarchical Risk Parity algorithm

• Complete Subset Regressions, simple and powerful

• A tidy model pipeline with twidlr and broom

• In defense of wrapr::let()

• EHRs and RCTs: Outcome Prediction vs. Optimal Treatment Selection

• Civic Data Wrangling: in R and on data.world

• Ages by England & Wales constituency

• Weather forecast with regression models – part 1

• Teach kids about R with Minecraft

• Hacking the principles of #openscience #workshops

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• line(x,y) now correctly computes the medians of the left and right group’s x-values and reproduces straight lines in all cases.

• Reading from connections in text mode is buffered, significantly improving the performance of readLines(), as well as scan() and read.table(), at least when specfiying colClasses.

• order() is smarter about picking a default sort ‘method’ when its arguments are objects.

Upcoming Events

• R in Insurance 2017 June 8, 2017
  This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.

• CSAMA 2017 June 11 - 16, 2017
  Statistical Data Analysis for Genome-Scale Biology teaches statistical and computational analysis of multi-omics studies in biology and biomedicine. Practical hands-on exercises are based on the R / Bioconductor environment.

• angletR 2017 June 28 - 30, 2017
  angletR aims to provide a national forum to exchange and share ideas on the use of R in different subjects such as visualisation, applied statistics, biostatistics and bioinformatics, Bayesian statistics, data analysis, Big Data, modelling, machine learning, high performance computing, etc.

• useR! 2017 July 4, 2017
  The annual useR! conference is the main meeting of the international R user and developer community.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Quotes of the Week

Pattern of daily downloads across year is pretty consistent. Big increase after summer (driven by teaching?); big drop at Christmas #rstats pic.twitter.com/HHg8RepKZC

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) June 2, 2017

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