A checklist for choosing between #rstats packages
The paradox of choice can at times be a challenge. There are well over 10,000 packages on CRAN now (likely 16,000), and there have been suggestions on how to find...continue reading.
The paradox of choice can at times be a challenge. There are well over 10,000 packages on CRAN now (likely 16,000), and there have been suggestions on how to find...continue reading.
The paradox of choice can at times be a challenge. There are well over 10,000 packages on CRAN now (likely 16,000), and there have been suggestions on how to find...continue reading.
When this blog moved from bioinformatics to data science I ran a Twitter poll to ask whether I should start afresh at a new site or continue here. “Continue here”,...continue reading.
In my previous post, I discussed Gartner’s reviews of data science software companies. In this post, I show Forrester’s coverage and discuss how radically different it is. As usual, this...continue reading.
Labelling data is typically a task for end-users and is applied in own scripts or functions rather than in packages. However, sometimes it can be useful for both end-users and...continue reading.
I am a co-organiser of the International Workshop on Computational Economics and Econometrics, taking place this year on 3-5 July … Morecontinue reading.
“Sydney stations where commuters fall through gaps, get stuck in lifts” blares the headline. The story tells us that: Central Station, the city’s busiest, topped the list last year with...continue reading.
Thus far, I have published four different monotonic binning algorithms for the scorecard development and think that it might be a right timing to do a quick summary. R functions...continue reading.
If you want to pursue a career analysing data about real-world things (and I’m not sure what other data there … Morecontinue reading.
Nothing new or original here, just something that I learned about quite recently that may be useful for others. One of my more “popular” code repositories, judging by Twitter, is...continue reading.
J’ai pris la (mauvaise ?) habitude d’utiliser Google Maps et son système de notation (chaque utilisateur peut accorder une note de une à cinq étoiles) pour décider d’où je me...continue reading.
This post is part of a running series on Bayesian MCMC tutorials. For updates, follow @StableMarkets. Metropolis Review Metropolis-Hastings is an MCMC algorithm for drawing samples from a distribution known up to...continue reading.
Hello again! Typically I would start by describing a complicated problem that can be solved using machine or deep learning methods, but today I want to do something different, I...continue reading.
I’ve just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner’s 2019 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the...continue reading.
Introduction Last week I analyzed player rankings of the Arkham Horror LCG classes. This week I explain what I did in the data analysis. As I mentioned, this is the...continue reading.
In past several weeks, I spent a tremendous amount of time on reading literature about automatic parameter tuning in the context of Machine Learning (ML), most of which can be...continue reading.
A board-like Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given a (k,m) binary matrix, what is the maximum number S of entries with only one neighbour equal to one?...continue reading.
If I keep holding out, will the light shine through? (Come Back, Pearl Jam) Imagine that you are writing the story of your life. Almost sure you will make allusions...continue reading.
A call to all potential participants to the incoming BayesComp 2020 conference at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, 7-10 January 2020, to submit proposals [to me] for contributed...continue reading.
Abstract: The perfect circle is a shiny app providing a user friendly interface to the algorithm described in the previous blog post Judging Freehand Circle Drawing Competitions. The app allows...continue reading.