R vs Autobox vs ForecastPro vs ...
Every now and then a commercial software vendor makes claims on social media about how their software is so much better than the forecast package for R, but no details are provided. There are lots of...
View ArticleUseful tutorials
There are some tools that I use regularly, and I would like my research students and post-docs to learn them too. Here are some great online tutorials that might help. ggplot tutorial from Winston...
View ArticleReproducibility in computational research
Jane Frazier spoke at our research team meeting today on “Reproducibility in computational research”. We had a very stimulating and lively discussion about the issues involved. One interesting idea was...
View ArticlerOpenSci unconference in Brisbane, 21-22 April 2016
The first rOpenSci unconference in Australia will be held on Thursday and Friday (April 21-22) in Brisbane, at the Microsoft Innovation Centre. This event will bring together researchers, developers,...
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The latest IJF issue with GEFCom2014 results
The latest issue of the IJF is a bumper issue with over 500 pages of forecasting insights. The GEFCom2014 papers are included in a special section on probabilistic energy forecasting, guest edited by...
View ArticleTourism time series repository
A few years ago, I wrote a paper with George Athanasopoulos and others about a tourism forecasting competition. We originally made the data available as an online supplement to the paper, but that has...
View ArticleRmarkdown template for a Monash working paper
This is only directly relevant to my Monash students and colleagues, but the same idea might be useful for adapting to other institutions. Some recent changes in the rmarkdown and bookdown packages...
View ArticleTourism forecasting competition data as an R package
The data used in the tourism forecasting competition, discussed in Athanasopoulos et al (2011), have been made available in the Tcomp package for R. The objects are of the same format as for Mcomp...
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The Australian Macro Database
AusMacroData is a new website that encourages and facilitates the use of quantitative, publicly available Australian macroeconomic data. The Australian Macro Database hosted at ausmacrodata.org...
View ArticleMonash Rmarkdown templates on github
My Rmarkdown templates for staff and students in my department are now available as github repositories. MonashThesis: For PhD theses. MonashBeamer: For beamer slides. MonashWP: For working papers....
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