Issue 5

27 Jun 2016

Hello and welcome to the new issue of R Weekly!

Highlight

Digested by R Weekly Members

• One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow

• Hadley Wickham - Cupcakes (for-loops vs map/lapply) - Excerpt from Hadley’s presentation at EdinbR (The Edinburgh R User Group). Alternatively, a post-presentation audience question from WOMBAT2016.

• Introducing the p-hacker app: Train your expert p-hacking skills

R Community Updates

News & Blog Posts

Tutorials

• Better prediction intervals for time series forecasts

• MonetDBLite because fast - For Further Reading: click here

• Bayesian Statistics explained to Beginners in Simple English

• LDAvis Show Case on R-Bloggers

• Introducing the p-hacker app: Train your expert p-hacking skills

• Introduction to R for Data Science : Session 8 Intro to Text Mining in R, ML Estimation + Binomial Logistic Regression

• How to use data analysis for machine learning, part 2

• R, Stan and Bayesian Statistics

• Quick start guide to analyze, format and visualize a correlation matrix using R software

• Turn any string into a color with xkcdcolor package.

• Sentiment Analysis and Topic Detection in R using Microsoft Cognitive Services

• RPy2: Combining the Power of R + Python for Data Science

• Demystifying Text Analytics part 2 — Quantifying Documents by Calculating TF-IDF in R

• Clustering Mixed Data Types in R

• Intro to Text Analysis with R

• Careful with tryCatch

R in the Real World

• The ffanalytics R Package for Fantasy Football Data Analysis

• Text Mining with R: Top Keywords of the useR! 2016

• Analyzing Public Health Data in R

• How You Will Die

Exploring Global Internet Performance Data Using R

• Lessons Learnt About Data Viz - Why a Boxplot Is Sometimes The Worst Choice?

• Euro 2016 Squads Part Deux

• Venn Diagram Comparison of Boruta, FSelectorRcpp and GLMnet Algorithms

• Using Amazon’s X-Ray to Visualize Characters’ Screen Time

R in Organization

• One year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow

• Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb

• What Data Scientists Do All Day at Work

R in Academia

• Using SOMbrero for clustering and visualizing graphs

Videos & Podcasts

• Hadley Wickham - Cupcakes (for-loops vs map/lapply) - Excerpt from Hadley’s presentation at EdinbR (The Edinburgh R User Group). Alternatively, a post-presentation audience question from WOMBAT2016.

• Naturally Speaking Episode 41: Conversations with an R Jedi - Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, about his work to make programming and data analysis in the statistical programme R less painful.

Resources

• Temporal network tools in statnet: networkDynamic, ndtv and tsna

New Releases

• R 3.3.1 is released.

• janeaustenr v0.1.1 - An R Package for Jane Austen’s Complete Novels.

• MAVIS v1.1.2 - Meta Analysis via Shiny.

• dplyr v0.5 - Here is what is new.

New Packages & Tools

• p-hacker - Train your p-hacking skills!

• MonetDBLite for R on Github

• fuzzr - simple fuzz testing for R functions.

• ffanalytics - The R Package for Fantasy Football Data Analysis.

• reach - R <-> Matlab interoperability.

• reactR - A set of convenience function with local dependencies for using React.js in R.

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core.

• Installation support for readline emulations based on editline (aka libedit) is deprecated.

• pretty(d, ..) for date-time d rarely failed when "halfmonth" time steps were tried (PR#16923) and on inaccurate platforms such as 32-bit Windows or a configuration with --disable-long-double.

• The check for non-portable flags in R CMD check could be stymied by src/Makevars.

Call for Participation

• satRday! in Budapest, Hungary

Upcoming Events

• 2016 useR! Stanford - The R User Conference 2016
  June 27 - June 30
  
  • Video Stream
  • Schedule
  • Twitter #user2016

Quote of the Week

Twitter @ Jim Hester

All R releases are named after peanuts quotes, 3.3.1 released today is “Bug in Your Hair”

Twitter @ Daniel Emaasit

#Rstats users traveling to @useR_Stanford might get second thoughts. 😂😂