Python and R - Part 1: Exploring Data with Datatable Written by David Lucey on October 30, 2020 Pythonโs datatable was launched by h2o two years ago and is still in alpha stage with cautions that it may still be unstable and features may be missing or incomplete. We found that it feels very similar to the R version... Read More...
10 Must-Know Tidyverse Functions: #1 - relocate() Written by Matt Dancho on October 27, 2020 relocate() is like arrange() for columns. It keeps all of the columns, but provides much more flexibility for reordering. Notice how all of the columns are returned. Read More...
How to Visualize Time Series Data: Tidy Forecasting in R Written by Joon Im on October 22, 2020 Plot time series data using the fpp2, fpp3, and timetik forecasting frameworks. Read More...
How to Automate PDF Reporting with R Written by Matt Dancho on October 21, 2020 Why create PDF's manually when you can automate PDFs with R? That's exactly what I show you how to do in this video showcasing parameterized Rmarkdown. Read More...
How to Make Publication-Quality Excel Pivot Tables with R Written by Matt Dancho on October 14, 2020 The biggest thing I missed when I transititioned from Excel to R was PIVOT TABLES! Seriously, Pivot Tables are so useful. You can summarize and reshape (aka Pivot) data so easily with them in Excel. Read More...
Introducing Modeltime Ensemble: Time Series Forecast Stacking Written by Matt Dancho on October 13, 2020 I'm super excited to introduce modeltime.ensemble, a new time series forecasting package designed to extend modeltime with ensemble methods like stacking, weighting, and averaging. Read More...
How to Automate Exploratory Analysis Plots Written by Luciano Oliveira Batista on October 8, 2020 A eatter way to do your EDA, and with less unnecessary coding and more flexibility using GGPLOT2 + PURRR. When you are plotting different charts during your exploratory data analysis, you sometimes end up doing a lot of repeated coding... Read More...
How to Automate Excel with R Written by Matt Dancho on October 7, 2020 Your company lives off them... Excel files. Why not automate them & save some time? Here's an Excel File you're going to make in this tutorial from R. Read More...
Top 5 Best Articles on R for Business [September 2020] Written by Matt Dancho on October 2, 2020 The top 5 best articles on R for Business from last month. Read More...
Finance in R - Evaluating American Funds Portfolio Written by David Lucey on September 30, 2020 Active funds have done poorly over the last ten years, and in most cases, struggled to justify their fees. In the post, there is a supporting chart showing a group of American Funds funds compared to the Vanguard Total Market index. Read More...
Using Drake for ETL - Building A Shiny Real Estate App Written by David Lucey on September 24, 2020 The drake plan organizes the project work flow according to targets, which are generated by scripts of functions and often functions of functions. The natural flow for our ETL was to check if the raw data was available on the local disc... Read More...
How to Automate PowerPoint Slidedecks with R Written by Matt Dancho on September 22, 2020 Here's a common situation, you have to make a Monday Morning Slide Deck. It's the same deck each week, just date ranges for your data change. Here's how to automate this process with R! Read More...