Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
Chicago, IL, USA
Joined March 2007
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Thelonious Monk began recording the iconic Brilliant Corners for Riverside #onthisday in 1956.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
I teach data.table to my students at lecture 2 of R class right after teaching them how to subset a vector. Once they get it, they do everything with it. It is amazing to see them share my enthusiasm after understanding how powerful this package is when used properly.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
The more I use #rdatatable, the more I find it reliable and powerful in dealing with huge and complex data manipulations in corporate environments. Thanks for everyone's hard work!
#rdatatable 1.12.4 is now on CRAN
225 PRs by 24 people
177 issues closed
29 new features
46 bugs fixed
github.com/Rdatatable/data.t…
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In tomorrow's @TheEconomist (online now): March of the machines: The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers
economist.com/briefing/2019/…
I recall a special @TheEconomist had in the 1980s predicting some of this -- still have a paper copy somewhere.
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And just like that, CRAN passed the 15k packages mark!
A big and heartfelt Thank You! to all the CRAN maintainers and package developers behind this!
#rstats #cran #cranberries
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Call for proposals to host useR! 2021.
r-project.org/useR-2021_call…
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
The final 2019 update to my Play It Where It Lies project (An #rshiny app that maps out the combined distance of every hit players have had this season.) Eduardo Escobar has finished on top with nearly 29 miles of hit distance! dan-osullivan.shinyapps.io/p…
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And thanks to Android's autocorrect for turning 'herd' into 'heard' without me noticing. So, @jack, I hear it is 2019. Can we maybe we get to _edit_ our tweets one day? Asking for a poorly typing "friend" ...
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Checking in on base R data set old `faithful`.
#rstats
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GIF
Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
New piece out online today with Austin Kozlowski and Matt Taddy on the "Geometry of Culture" about how machine learning models built from historical text can identify cultural dimensions, trace cultural evolution, and enable cultural discovery: bit.ly/2nGxU2e (1/2)
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
#rstats package tinytest 1.1.0 is on CRAN now
- more R CMD check friendly
- side fx tracking includes file ops
- expect_ functions gain 'info' argument
- fixes and internal improvements
Cheers to the CRAN team for a fully automated update!
cran.r-project.org/package=t…
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RcppAnnoy 0.0.13 on CRAN: Updated upstream and moar performance
(Very Fast) Approximate Nearest Neighbours for R
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats #rcpp
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
A data.table and dplyr tour #rstats atrebas.github.io/post/2019-…
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digest 0.6.21 on CRAN: Now vectorised !!
Hash digests for arbitrary R objects
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2…
#rstats
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Can one "mute" on @LinkedIn ?
There are "thought leaders" whose posts I could do without, but which appear in my timeline via people 'liking' them. The best I found is to unfollow the friends liking those posts.
Is there a better way? Besides "delete your account"?
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
For everyone complaining about the install/compilation time of #rstats packages on Linux... A friendly reminder that pre-compiled binaries are available on Ubuntu thanks to @marutterstat’s “c2d4u3.5” PPA.
Here’s @eddelbuettel with a video walkthrough.
youtube.com/qIjWirNma-8
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
.@HerbieHancock, "Speak No Evil" session, Van Gelder Studio, December 24, 1964
"the photographs of #FrancisWolff preserve precious moments of some of the greatest musicians at work on some of the most enduring jazz recordings" @NewYorker newyorker.com/culture/photo-… #80DaysOfBlueNote
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But that is "just" the Isetta sub-brand. Which is an interesting story.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta
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