A front-page story in the Baltimore Sun reported last week on the state of the bridges in Maryland. Among the report’s findings:

Some pre-Halloween post today. It started actually while I was in Barcelona : kids wanted to go back to some store we’ve seen the first day, in the gothic part, and I could not remember where it was. And I said to myself that would be quite long to do all the street of the neighborhood. And I discovered that it was actually an old problem. In 1962, Meigu Guan was interested in a postman delivering mail to a number of streets such that the total distance walked by the postman was as short as possible. How could the postman ensure that the distance walked was a minimum?

I have just submitted a revised version of survHE on CRAN — it should be up very shortly. This will be version 1.0.64 and its main feature is a major restructuring in the way the rstan/HMC stuff works.

By Devin Morrissey

Resource-efficient Machine Learning in 2 KB RAM for the Internet of Things

The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Team of the Year is released in England at the end of each season, picking the 11 most influential players in each of Britain’s leagues.

Continuing our series on new features in the RStudio v1.2 preview release, we would like to introduce shinytest. shinytest is a package to perform automated testing for Shiny apps, which allows us to:

Project Managers are experts at adaptation and evolution. They know how to keep their team on track and on budget, while encouraging creative problem-solving. They have contingency plans for their contingency plans. They’re calm, cool, and collected under pressure. But even for Project Managers, the shift toward big data project integration isn’t easy. It necessitates a shift in priorities and strategy, but it is achievable.

By Vikash Kumar, Tatvasoft.com.au

log Normal Linear Regression (logNormReg)Functions to fits simple linear regression models with log normal errors and identity link (taking the responses on the original scale). See Muggeo (20 …