I had an aim at the start of this year to make learning Python accessible to everyone, for free. Unfortunately, I had some health problems to contend with alongside work, so I did not have the extracurricular time to tend to my pet project. However, I have been busy over the last few evenings and…
The motivation for this package is simple, while there are many packages that do similar things, few of them perform automated removal of the features from your models. This was the motivation, plus having them all in one location to enable you to easily find them, otherwise you would be looking through Caret, Tidymodels and…
I have recently just pushed my fourth package to CRAN, I will do a separate post on this, but the FeatureTerminatoR package has been built to perform automated feature selection, utilising methods such as recursive partitioning, multicollinearity purging and other types will be built into the second version. Installing the package The package currently resides…
I have had many colleagues who work with the R programming language wanting something that is easily accessible for learning Python. I have started to compile some guides on how to work with Python data structures. My aim is to do a complete series of tutorials on how to utilise Python to its greatest potential….
I am so excited that my package OddsPlotty has landed on CRAN. This was a package I worked on when I was doing lots of multiple comparisons of logistic regression models and wanted a way to visualise the odds ratios on a graph i.e. an odds plot. This package allows for the generation of odds…
Do you program in R and normally use DPLYR for data wrangling, manipulation or whatever term you call it? Have you heard all the hype about data.table and how this package can significantly improve the performance run time of your R scripts? Have you been meaning to get round to learning data.table and have never…
These set of tutorial arose through my desire to use as many machine learning packages as possible. My favourites still remain tensorflow, caret, sci-kit learn and now TidyModels. Why TidyModels? Instead of replacing the modelling package, tidymodels replaces the interface. Better said, tidymodels provides a single set of functions and arguments to define a model. It then fits the…
I have been busy learning Docker, as it was one of those things I have been putting off for a while. But, I am so glad that I did. Essentially, I have gone through all the pain so you don’t have to. Building the ML Model and creating API with Plumber I can’t tell you…
The NHSDataDictionaRy package is now back on CRAN, and I am pleased as punch. This update contains the OpenSafely scraper to get data from the website for lookups developed by Ben Goldacre’s team. Why did it disappear? The package disappeared due to me taking it down for major script and function updates. This has now…
The NHS-R community commissioned a package at the start of the year to address the need to pull lookups real time from the NHS Data Dictionary website. I thought this would be a good package, but what I have included, in addition, is the ability to scrape tables and text from any website. What are…
