R Weekly 2017-19 Mining CRAN, GSOC2017, DataSci & Public Good

08 May 2017

Highlight

• BrailleR - Improving R for blind users.

• Google Summer of Code 2017

Insights

• sqlite, feather, and fst

• Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing

• Recreating the Datasaurus Dozen Using tweenr and ggplot2

• The making of datasauRus

• Soma Water Filters Are Worthless: How I Used R To Win An Argument With My Wife

• Key Takeaways from OpenVisConf 2017

• Statistician ranked as best job in 2017 by CareerCast

R in the Real World

• Using the Hydro Network-Linked Data Index, add river features to your next R map

• Analysis of Inaugural Speech Data: Part 1

• House price visualizations

• ‘And the winner is…’ Textmining Award Nominations

• Visualizing Tennis Grand Slam Winners Performances

• House price growth and employment trends

• Estimating the Size of a Demonstration

• Some default and debt restructuring data

Videos and Podcasts

• Roger Peng - Data Science for the Public Good: A Case Study in Environmental Health

R in Organizations

• Text Analysis R Developers’ Workshop 2017

• Chat with the rOpenSci team at upcoming meetings

• Shiny in Medicine

R Internationally

• Premiers pas en Machine Learning avec R. Volume 2 : la classification — English - Autotranslate

• Des recours différents à la procuration — English - Autotranslate

R in Academia

• Google Summer of Code 2017 - Noninvasive source code formatting

Resources

• plotly for R workshop at plotcon ‘17

• A Psychologist’s Guide to R

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New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• BrailleR - Improving R for blind users.

• decapitated - Headless ‘Chrome’ Orchestration in R

• casebase - Fit Flexible Smooth-in-Time Hazards and Risk Functions via Logistic and Multinomial Regression

• timekit - Time Series Forecast Applications Using Data Mining

• desctable - An R package to produce descriptive and comparative tables

• Sinew - Create self-populating roxygen2 skeletons

Tutorials

• Technical Foundations of Informatics: A modern introduction to R

• crayon colors, simplified

• Monthly seasonality

• A note on AIC scores for quasi-families in #rstats

• caching blogdown

• Scrapeover Friday — a.k.a. Another R Scraping Makeover

• Billboard 1964-2015 Songs + Lyrics

• How to Establish a Web Presence as an R User and Why It’s Important

• Autoencoders and anomaly detection with machine learning in fraud analytics

• R plotmath functions combined with variable values

• Prediction intervals for GLMs part I - part II

• Updating R

• Figure Aesthetics or Overlays?

• Race Track Concordance Charts

• twidlr: data.frame-based API for model and predict functons

• Why to use wrapr::let()

• Extracting data from Twitter for #machinelearningflashcards

• Update to autoencoders and anomaly detection with machine learning in fraud analytics

• End-to-End Scenarios Enabled by the Data Science Virtual Machine: Webinar Video

• Taking control of animations in R and demystifying them in the process

• Adding Sinew to Roxygen2 Skeletons

• A tribute to Lucy D’Agostino McGowan’s git commit emoji game

• Workout Wednesday with pollstR

• Real-time scoring with Microsoft R Server 9.1

• Machine Learning Forecasting Numeric Data with Multiple Linear Regression (Medical Expenses)

• Fitting count and zero-inflated count GLMMs with mgcv

• Everyone knows that loops in R are to be avoided but vectorization is not always possible

• Building Shiny App for Alcohol Consumption Data Set

• Modelling individual party vote from the 2014 New Zealand election study

• Modeling Face Images with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), Kmeans with Vector Quantization (VQ) and Singular Value Decompostion (SVD) in R

• A Semi-Supervised Classification Algorithm using Markov Chain and Random Walk in R

Package Releases

• RcppEigen 0.3.3.3.0 - ‘Rcpp’ Integration for the ‘Eigen’ Templated Linear Algebra Library

• RInside 0.2.14 - Provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications

• x13binary 1.1.39-1 - Provide the ‘x13ashtml’ Seasonal Adjustment Binary

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• Connections are now written correctly with encoding "UTF-16LE".

Upcoming Events

• R/Finance 2017 May 19 and 20, 2017
  From the inaugural conference in 2009, the annual R/Finance conference in Chicago has become the primary meeting for academics and practioners interested in using R in Finance.

• 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.

More past events at R conferences & meetups.

Quotes of the Week

Making the most of an airport terminal. geom_sankey (to be included in #ggforce)#ggplot2 #dataviz #rstats pic.twitter.com/Vp62LoXF1a

— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) May 5, 2017

What would it be for #rstats? Maybe

R: What if statisticians wrote a programming language?

shared by @sempf pic.twitter.com/RTPTajlLsl

— Clark Fitzgerald (@clarkfitzg) May 4, 2017