This post is re-published from my blog. Please see it for the latest updates from May 16, 2018. Context One of things I have to do quite often is create tables for papers and presentations. Often the “Table 1” of a paper has descriptives about the study, broken down by subgroups. For presentation purposes, it […]
Reposted from Abhijit’s blog. Some <- have been replaced by = due to idiosyncracies of the WordPress platform. Well, here’s what I was dealing with: Exemplar Excel file from collaborator Notice that we have 3 header rows, first with patient IDs, second with spine region, and third with variable names (A and B, to protect […]
[Re-posted from Abhijit’s blog] Personal expressiveness, or how data is stored in a spreadsheet When you get data from a broad research community, the variability in how that data is formatted and stored is truly astonishing. Of course there are the standardized formats that are output from machines, like Next Generation Sequencing and other automated […]
I’ve been in the process of transferring my blog (along with creating a personal website) to blogdown, which is hosted on Github Pages and Netlify. The new blog, or rather, the continuation of this blog, will be at webbedfeet.netlify.io/posts, and it went live today. I’ll be cross-posting here for a while, at least until Tal […]
I’m starting to incorporate more Rcpp in my R work, and so decided to spend some time exploring the Rcpp Gallery. One example by John Merrill caught my eye. He provides a C++ solution to transforming an list of lists into a data frame, and shows impressive speed savings compared to as.data.frame. This got me thinking about how […]
Quirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudio This is a quick note about some tribulations I had running Rcpp (v. 0.12.12) code through RStudio (v. 1.0.143) on a Windows 7 box running R (v. 3.3.2). I also have RTools v. 3.4 installed. I fully admit that this may very well be specific to my […]
I’ll often keep non-sensitive data on Dropbox so that I can access it on all my machines without gumming up git. I just wrote a small script to find the Dropbox location on each of my computers automatically. The crucial information is available here, from Dropbox. My small snippet of code is the following: I haven’t […]
Bert Huang has a nice blog talking about poor results of ML/AI algorithms in “wild” data, which echos some of my experience and thoughts. His conclusions are worth thinking about, IMO. 1. Big data is complex data. As we go out and collect more data from a finite world, we’re necessarily going to start collecting […]
Chris Moffit has a nice blog on how to use the transform function in pandas. He provides some (fake) data on sales and asks the question of what fraction of each order is from each SKU. Being a R nut and a tidyverse fan, I thought to compare and contrast the code for the pandas […]
Chris Moffit has a nice blog on how to use the transform function in pandas. He provides some (fake) data on sales and asks the question of what fraction of each order is from each SKU. Being a R nut and a tidyverse fan, I thought to compare and contrast the code for the pandas […]
