Feature engineering is a crucial step in the data science process, often making the difference between a good model and a great one. It involves transforming raw data into meaningful features that can improve the performance of predictive models. For those working in R, the […]
DrugExposureDiagnostics: A Comprehensive R Package for Assessing Drug Exposure in Clinical Research Drug exposure is an essential aspect of clinical research, as it directly affects the efficacy and safety of drugs. Measuring drug exposure accurately and understanding the factors that influence it is crucial for […]
Web applications can have rich functionality nowadays. For example a website of an E-commerce shop has a page about the products they are selling, a page about their conditions, a shopping cart page and an order page. Furthermore it can handle different HTTP requests from […]
Speed skating is one of my favorite sports to practice and to watch. This winter the Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Will the Dutch be as successful as they were in Sochi and PyeongChang? How many medals will the Chinese win? Four […]
In healthcare, the catchment area is the area served by a hospital or medical centre. The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has one main goal: to help individuals fight cancer. More specific they are targetting cancer with precision medicine, immunotherapy and clinical trials next to providing advanced cancer care […]
CITO is an institute in the Netherlands that support governments and schools so that they can develop world-class testing and monitoring systems to complete their educational programs. They have a lot of data regarding testing scores and it could be interesting to combine this data […]
What is redaction? redaction is the blacking out or deletion of text in a document. It is intended to allow the selective disclosure of information in a document while keeping other parts of the document secret. It is common within court documents and in the […]
Since the beginning of this year I have solar panels on the roof of my house. The electricity these are producing should be more than enough than I am currently using. I bought a bit more solar panels since I expect to have an electric […]
This week, the European R Users Meeting (ERUM) is happening. It’s a biennial conference that brings the R User Community together and this year it would be held in Milan. I am excited to give a lightning talk about “Reproducible Data Visualization with CanvasXpress”!
You might have heard about linear regression and machine learning before. Basically linear regression is a simple statistics problem. But what are the different types of linear regression and how to implement these in R? Introduction to Linear Regression Linear regression is an algorithm […]