R Weekly 2017-18 OpenVisConf, 100k stories mining, emo😘

01 May 2017

Highlight

• Slides from OpenVisConf 2017

• Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis - And more about the arc of the stories

R in the Real World

• Perceptions of Probability and Numbers

• Beautiful boxplots in base R

• NLP with AirBnb

• Predict French vote with R

• R⁶ — Using pandoc from R + A Neat Package For Reading Subtitles

• Population Lines: How and Why I Created It

• Where Europe lives, in 14 lines of R Code

• Map of population density lines in R

• What’s that on the horizon? An awesome dataviz!

• Using NYC Citi Bike Data to Help Bike Enthusiasts Find their Mate

• Creating an animated world map of life expectancy changes from 1950 to 2100 in R

• Bivariate choropleth maps with R

• Examining the arc of 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis

• Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis

• The daily grind

• Where Cohen went wrong – the proportion of overlap between two normal distributions

Videos and Podcasts

• New R packages to handle binary files - R Weekly 2017 May - Podcast Feed

• NSSD 37 - It’s a Seller’s Market - Hilary and Roger talk about the EPA taking down data (or not?), whether statisticians are paternalistic, and how to evaluate machine learning consumer products.

Resources

• Data Science Specialization Community Mentor Content Repository

• Writing your thesis with R Markdown – Figures, R code and tables

• Coding etiquette

• Data Carpentry Ecology Workshop

• Slides from OpenVisConf 2017

• Reproducible Data Science with R

• Visualisation for EDA

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Insights

• Which are the popular languages for Data Science

• Science really is non-partisan: facts and skepticism annoy everybody

• #6: Easiest package registration

R in Organizations

• dv01 uses R bring greater transparency to the consumer lending market

• Welcome to our rOpenSci Interns

• NY R Conference

New Packages

📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦

• emo - 😍😘😙😚😻 Easily insert emoji into RMarkdown

• errors - Error Propagation for R Vectors

• greta - Fast and easy statistical modelling in R

• aws.s3 - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API Client

• flexdashboard-poster - Minimal template for preparing a conference poster using rmarkdown

• twidlr - data.frame-first formula-second modelling

Jobs

• Health Services Data Science Associate (ZIM1701.17) @ Palo Alto, California

Tutorials

• Genetic Music: From Schoenberg to Bach

• Using R as a GIS

• A function that adds multiple ggplot2 layers

• A classical analysis (Radio Swiss classic program)

• Building an R training environment

• R 3.4.0 now available

• Order Type and Parameter Optimization in quantstrat

• Rent Prices and TrelliscopeJS

• Explaining complex machine learning models with LIME

• More cartograms of New Zealand census data (district and city level)!

• Using checkpoint with knitr and RStudio

• Animate a bivariate choropleth

• A Shiny application that shows trends in Stack Overflow questions over time

• Binning Outliers in a Histogram

• ‘Digging’ into archaeology + leaflet

• Age Bias Plot Changes in FSA

• Hacking maps with ggplot2

• Visualizing uncertainty in housing data

• Creating a VIX Futures Term Structure In R From Official CBOE Settlement Data

• Salaries by alma mater - an interactive visualization with R and plotly

• Setup encrypted Rstudio and Shiny dashboard solution in 3 minutes

• R Quick Tip: Upload multiple files in shiny and consolidate into a dataset

• Make pleasingly parallel R code with rxExecBy

Package Releases

• RcppTOML 0.1.3 - TOML is a configuration file grammar for humans.

• plotly 4.6.0 - Create interactive web graphics from R via plotly’s JavaScript graphing library

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

• file.mtime() no longer returns NA on Windows when the file or directory is being used by another process.

• New askYesNo() function and "askYesNo" option to ask the user binary response questions in a customizable but consistent way.

• Vignettes listed in .Rbuildignore were not being ignored properly.

• tempdir(check=TRUE) recreates the tmpdir() if it is no longer valid.

• R CMD Sweave again returns status = 0 on successful completion.

• installed.packages() on Windows would fail when file.mtime() (?) returned NA.

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

Does including emoji in your RMarkdown make you go 😦😫😱? Struggle no more: https://t.co/wgCTnsgVAn emo::ji("celebrate") 🎉 #rstats

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) April 25, 2017