Time flies by and we are more people now here at STATWROX. But, did we change our behavior in using emojis or are we still the same? I am revisiting my analysis and will have a look!
Dynamic UI Elements in Shiny
Shiny enables its users to quickly create a fixed UI with code. Although simple, this can prove to be quite limiting. Applying the principles of reactivity to the UI part of a ShinyApp is a natural progression from reactive coding as we know it already from Shiny’s server side. This blog entry reviews and discusses two of the most convenient tools for doing so.
R or Python
Data Science beginners often encounter the same question: which programming language should one learn first? The choice usually falls on one of the two major providers, R or Python. With this blog article, we want to help you with the search for the right programming language for you.
Machine Learning Interpretability @DataUniversity2019
Vom 09.-10. Oktober findet die Data University an der Goethe-Uni in Frankfurt statt, präsentiert von STATWORX & BARC.
Which Factors Influence Gas Prices? Do Gas Companies Narratives Hold True?
What are driving factors behind the gas price? With freely accessible data we are goging to find out if the brand, the location and more have any impact on the price!
What the MAPE is FALSELY blamed for, its TRUE weaknesses and BETTER alternatives!
In time series context, one of most the commonly used measures is the MAPE. In this blog post, I evaluate critical arguments and weaknesses concerning the MAPE and demonstrate alternative measures.
Web Scraping 101 in Python with Requests & BeautifulSoup
Want to obtain a specific dataset from a website which does not have an API? In this post, I explain how to do this by scraping data using Python, how you determine whether it is allowed to scrape a specific page and more.
Shiny Apps skalieren @DataUniversity2019
Vom 09.-10. Oktober präsentieren wir von STATWORX gemeinsam mit BARC die Data University an der Goethe-Uni in Frankfurt. 2 Tage lang werden wir dort unser geballtes Data Science Wissen in praxisorientierten Workshops an die Teilnehmenden weitergeben. In zwei besonders spannenden Workshops von unserem Kollegen David dreht sich am zweiten Schulungstag alles um das R Paket Shiny. Vormittags wird es eine …
Getting started with flexdashboards in R
In this blog article, you will learn you how to set up a dashboard with the flexdashboard package, how to integrate interactive widgets and how to deploy the app on shinyapps.io.
Bang Bang – How to program with dplyr
Never heard of non-standard evaluation? Then our colleague Markus has the perfect answer for you: Bang Bang! In this blog post, Markus introduces meta-programming when using dplyr.