A technical guide on processing millions of small text files using GNU Parallel and stream processing, without needing Hadoop or a database.
Explores the 'curse of dimensionality' through simulations, showing how nearest-neighbor distances converge in high-dimensional spaces.
RSiteCatalyst v1.4.4 release notes detail a major bug fix for sparse data errors and minor updates to authentication messaging.
A tutorial on using R's dbWriteTable function to efficiently write a data frame to a temporary SQL table for database queries.
A guide on creating a custom Docker container for R data science work, including installing packages and visualizing data.
A guide to getting started with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in R using the Lavaan package, based on a user group presentation.
A guide to visualizing and diagnosing Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) in R, based on a presentation and blog post by Jaime Ashander.
A tutorial introducing the ggplot2 package for data visualization in R, presented at a user group meeting.
A tutorial on creating maps using R, based on a presentation by Ryan Peek and Michele Tobias at the Davis R Users' Group.
A tutorial on using ROpenSci packages to connect to and retrieve data from online scientific repositories.
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A follow-up article demonstrating a third method for sessionizing log data using R's data.table and magrittr packages.
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A technical tutorial on sessionizing log data using the dplyr package in R, comparing it to a previous SQL-based approach.
RSiteCatalyst v1.4.3 release notes: bug fixes, new data feed monitoring functions, and internal prep for a new AdobeDW package.
Release notes for RSiteCatalyst 1.4.2, an R package for Adobe Analytics, detailing bug fixes and a new API feature.
A tutorial on creating network graphs to visualize website page relationships using R, RSiteCatalyst, and d3Network packages.
RSiteCatalyst v1.4 is released with breaking changes, new Pathing/Fallout reports, OAuth support, and a cleaner codebase.
Analyzing ESA conference abstracts using LDA topic modeling to identify scientific communities and trends through text-mining techniques.
A developer reflects on mastering multiple languages after encountering a tricky JSON parsing issue in R while maintaining a CRAN package.
A cheat sheet comparing matrix operations across MATLAB/Octave, Python (NumPy), R, and Julia for scientific computing and data analysis.
Using R to create a Google Calendar with sunset times and travel alerts for a personal viewing spot.
