Deploy R Shiny Apps with Docker – Windows 10 Home Older Build

Deploy R Shiny Apps with Docker – Windows 10 Home Older Build

There are a number of existing tutorials that outline how to deploy an R Shiny App with Docker. R is great programming language for performing statistical analysis – the community is rich with packages that are finding new uses every day. Shiny is a web frame...

Tweetdeck and Twitter Analytics Scraping with R

Twitter offers tools to analyze tweet performance of your own accounts via twitter analytics and the accounts of others via tweetdeck. Unfortunately, the platforms have limited data export functionality; there is not a clean easy way to export data from the web user...

Short Term Directional Equity Forecasting with SVMs and R

This post outlines a framework for forecasting short term (i.e. daily tick data) directional movements of equity prices. The method used here relies on support vector machines and treats the system like a Markov Chain. Historical data is downloaded from stooq.com....

Multiple Variant Testing with R

This post overviews code for testing multiple variants using Bayesian statistics. It is especially useful when there is a defined action that can be classified as a success (i.e. a click or conversion) and when we have complete information about the number of trials...

Polynomial Regression for Digital Ads with R

This post discusses how to use polynomial regression for digital advertising data. Polynomial regression can help us better understand the relationship between spend and impressions (or spend and clicks). This method can be particularly useful when looking at daily...