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New Features in healthyR.ts 0.3

Published 2023-11-20 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson lays out some updates:

One of the standout additions is the introduction of util_log_ts(). This function seems like a game-changer, providing a streamlined way to log time series data. This is incredibly useful, especially when dealing with extensive datasets, making the whole process more efficient and user-friendly. This is a helper function for auto_stationarize().

There’s a lot in this update and the blog post also includes several examples of automating stationarity and ARIMA.

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Creating Prediction Intervals in R

Published 2023-11-14 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson builds a prediction interval:

Prediction intervals are a powerful tool for understanding the uncertainty of your predictions. They allow you to specify a range of values within which you are confident that the true value will fall. This can be useful for many tasks, such as setting realistic goals, making informed decisions, and communicating your findings to others.

In this blog post, we will show you how to create a prediction interval in R using the mtcars dataset. The mtcars dataset is a built-in dataset in R that contains information about fuel economy, weight, displacement, and other characteristics of 32 cars.

Click through to see an example based on linear regression.

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Comparing Permutation SHAP and Kernel SHAP

Published 2023-11-13 by Kevin Feasel

Michael Mayer lays some groundwork:

SHAP is the predominant way to interpret black-box ML models, especially for tree-based models with the blazingly fast TreeSHAP algorithm.

For general models, two slower SHAP algorithms exist:

  1. Permutation SHAP (Štrumbelj and Kononenko, 2010)
  2. Kernel SHAP (Lundberg and Lee, 2017)

Read on to understand more about these two forms of SHAP, as well as how they compare in two datasets of differing levels of difficulty.

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Simulating a Bivariate Normal Distribution in R

Published 2023-11-10 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson isn’t content with a univariate normal distribution:

Imagine two variables, like height and weight, that exhibit a joint distribution. The bivariate normal distribution captures the relationship between these variables, describing how their values tend to cluster around certain means and how they vary together. It’s like a two-dimensional bell curve, where the peak represents the most likely combination of values for both variables.

Click through to learn a bit more about bivariate normal distributions, including ways to plot one and show its density function.

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Functions to Deal with Object Names in R

Published 2023-11-09 by Kevin Feasel

Maelle Salmon has a sticky note:

Interestingly the docs for setNames() sound as if it were created just for this use case!

“This is a convenience function that sets the names on an object and returns the object. It is most useful at the end of a function definition where one is creating the object to be returned and would prefer not to store it under a name just so the names can be assigned.”

For the opposite operation, removing the names of an object, we can use unname().

Read on for an overview of several of these functions. H/T R-Bloggers.

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Plotting a Cumulative Distribution Function in R

Published 2023-11-09 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson builds a plot:

Before delving into the world of R programming, let’s first grasp the fundamental concept of a CDF. Imagine a group of students eagerly awaiting their exam results. The CDF for their scores would depict the probability of encountering a student with a score less than or equal to a specific value. For instance, if the CDF indicates a value of 0.7 at 80%, it implies that there’s a 70% chance of finding a student with a score of 80 or lower.

Read on to see how you can calculate this in a dataset and then plot the CDF.

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Converting Data to Time Series in R with TidyDensity

Published 2023-11-08 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson shows off a new function:

If you’re an R enthusiast like me, you know that data manipulation is at the core of everything we do. The ability to transform your data swiftly and efficiently can make or break your data analysis projects. That’s why I’m thrilled to introduce a game-changing function in TidyDensity, my very own R library. Say hello to convert_to_ts()!

In the world of data analysis, time series data is like a treasure chest of insights waiting to be unlocked. Whether you’re tracking stock prices, monitoring patient data, or analyzing the temperature over the years, having your data in a time series format is a crucial step in the process. With convert_to_ts(), that process just got a whole lot easier.

Click through to see how it works and what you can do with it.

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Print Debugging in R and Rust

Published 2023-11-08 by Kevin Feasel

Jonathan Carroll leaves breadcrumbs:

Print debugging has its place. Sure, it’s not always the best way to debug something, but it can often be the fastest. In this post I describe a useful way to do this in Rust and how we can get similar behaviour in R.

Read on to see how the dbg! macro works in Rust and how to emulate it in R, both by hand and using a library called icecream. H/T R-Bloggers.

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