This blog is about getting corporate identity graphics ready in R using ggplot. Many corporates have decent identity Powerpoint decks and Excel templates available to work with, they might even have developed a PowerBI/Tableau template to fit their corporate identity. Yet, identity templates for R (or other languages used) are often not readily available. Marketing […]

In a sequence of articles we compare different NLP techniques to show you how we get valuable information from unstructured text. About a year ago we gathered reviews on Dutch restaurants. We were wondering whether ’the wisdom of the croud’ – reviews from restaurant visitors – could be used to predict which restaurants are most likely to receive a new Michelin-star. Read this post to see how that worked out. We used topic modeling as our primary tool to extract information from the review texts and combined that with predictive modeling techniques to end up with our predictions.

As a data analyst you want to provide clear cut insights for your end users, enabling them to extract all the business value provided by your solution. If your end user is data and analytical savvy then explaining results might be a piece of cake. Unfortunately not all stakeholders are able to fully grab the […]

Real nerds on Valentines day graph hearts instead of drawing them. My drawing skills are not what I like them to be, my R skills are though! Therefore, let’s draw a heart in R instead on paper! Inspired by: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartCurve.html

As Data Scientists, we often train complex algorithms in order to tackle certain business problems and generate value. These algorithms, however, can take a while to train. Sometimes they take a couple of hours, hours which I’m not going to spend just sitting and waiting. But regularly checking whether the training is done, is also […]

When we’re working for clients we mostly come across the statistical programming languages SAS, SPSS, R and Python. Of these SAS and SPSS are probably the most used. However, the interest for the open source languages R and Python is increasing. In recent years, some of our clients migrated from using SAS or SPSS to […]

Just something funny because it’s pi day. Enjoy! # clear your environment rm(list = ls()) # load the necessary libraries library(png) library(plotrix) # lab kleuren oranje <- rgb(228/255, 86/255, 65/255) donkergrijs <- rgb(75/255, 75/255, 74/255) lichtblauw <- rgb(123/255, 176/255, 231/255) # read the image of pi img = readPNG(“C:/Users/j.schoonemann/Desktop/pi.png”) # read the logo of The […]

New Year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. ― Alex Morritt The Analytics Lab and Cmotions wish everybody a happy year. A year full of challenges, new experiences and new knowledge. library(ggplot2) rm(list = ls()) # First rocket t1 = […]