Loading Data using R and PowerBI
I'm not a fan of R visuals in PowerBI. I recently learned I can use R to load data and native PowerBI visuals to display the data. Here's how.
2022-05-27 (first published: 2017-10-16)
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Nick Burns
Pattern Recognition via Principal Components Analysis
We'll look at using principal components analysis to help visualise your data and detect underlying structure or patterns.
2019-10-25 (first published: 2017-09-12)
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Moving beyond principal components analysis
Principal components analysis is a standard, but usually terrible, technique for visualising complex data. We're using network diagrams to solve this problem.
2019-10-11 (first published: 2017-09-19)
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Real-time moving averages for IoT with R
Computing an average over all your data is easy, but what if your data arrives incrementally and you need to be able to compute real-time averages on the fly? That's what we are going to look at.
2019-10-04 (first published: 2017-10-02)
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Configuring R Services in SQL Server 2016
R Services provides in-database analytics in SQL Server 2016. In this article we step through configuring R Services and get you started with in-database analytics.
2018-05-28 (first published: 2016-01-27)
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The Shortcomings of Predictive Accuracy
In prediction, accuracy is key. But it's not all it's cracked up to be as we will explore.
2017-09-07
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Analysing Sales Patterns: R + SQL Server
We show how to use RevolutionR to analyse & visualise purchasing behaviours in AdventureWorksDW2012.
2017-08-18 (first published: 2015-12-15)
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Machine Learning for Outlier Detection in R
A look into clustering to detect outliers in R. An extension on univariate statistical tests to include multivariate data.
2017-07-05
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Scoring Outliers in Non-Normal Data with R
Using R to detect outliers is relatively easy, but most methods assume your data is normally distributed. How do you handle skewed datasets?
2017-06-29
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Scoring Outliers with R
What is normal? More to the point, what is abnormal? We will look at using R to score outliers in a typical monitoring dataset.
2017-06-19
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
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T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers