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.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; }by Joseph Rickert I found my way into data science and machine learning relatively late in... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert September was a bit of a slow month for new R packages. Only 96 new packages showed up un CRAN. Nevertheless, I have picked out 23 for special mention which I have listed in 5 categories. I used the same selection criteria as I described in the post for August ... [Read more...]

.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; }by Joseph Rickert 141 new packages landed on CRAN in August. The following are my picks f... [Read more...]

.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; }by Joseph Rickert Welcome to “R Views”, the new R Community blog from RStudio.... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Data Science is all about getting access to interesting data, and it is really nice when some kind soul not only points out an interesting data set but also makes it easy for you to access it. Below is a list of 17 R packages that appeared on ... [Read more...]

by Anusua Trivedi, Microsoft Data Scientist Background and Approach This blog series is based on my upcoming talk on re-usability of Deep Learning Models at the Hadoop+Strata World Conference in Singapore. This blog series will be in several parts – where I describe my experiences and go deep into the ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert My guess is that a good many statistics students first encounter the bivariate Normal distribution as one or two hastily covered pages in an introductory text book, and then don't think much about it again until someone asks them to generate two random variables with a given ... [Read more...]

by Bob Horton, Microsoft Data Scientist ROC curves are commonly used to characterize the sensitivity/specificity tradeoffs for a binary classifier. Most machine learning classifiers produce real-valued scores that correspond with the strength of the prediction that a given case is positive. Turning these real-valued scores into yes or no ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert My impression is that the JSM has become ever more R friendly over recent years, but with two sessions organized around R tools and several talks featuring R packages, this year may turn out to be the beginning of a new era where conference organizers see value ... [Read more...]

by Ramkumar Chandrasekeran, Software Engineer - Microsoft R Tiger Team DeployR Enterprise is designed to deliver analytics solutions at scale to whomever needs it: inside or outside the enterprise. It also guarantees secure delivery of your analytics via DeployR web services. These secure web services integrate seamlessly with existing enterprise ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Last week in a webinar, Burtch Works, an Illinois based executive recruiting firm that specializes in finding analytic talent, released the results of their third annual survey of "quantitative business professionals". Other than having attended this webinar, I have no knowledge of Burtch Works, but I am ... [Read more...]

by Mike Wise, Data Scientist / Solution Architect – MCS Incubation Services Background Building energy consumption is a huge component of energy consumption. In the USA for example, around 40 percent of the energy consumed is in buildings, and as the USA consumes something like 25 percent of the worlds energy, it is clear ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert New R packages keep rolling into CRAN at a prodigious rate: 184 in May, 195 in June and July looks like it will continue the trend. I spent some time sorting through them and have picked out a few that that are interesting from a data science point of ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Last week, I mentioned a few of the useR tutorials that I had the opportunity to attend. Here are the links to the slides and code for all but two of the tutorials: Regression Modeling Strategies and the rms Package - Frank Harrell Using Git and GitHub ... [Read more...]

by Konstantin Golyaev, Data Scientist at Microsoft I recently participated in an internal one-day Microsoft R Server (MRS) hackathon. For an experienced base R user but a complete MRS novice, this turned out to be an interesting challenge. R has fantastic and unparalleled set of tools for exploratory data analysis, ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Over the years I have seen several excellent tutorials at useR!conferences that were not only very satisfying "you had to be there" experiences but were also backed up with meticulously prepared materials of lasting value. This year, quite a few useR!20i6 tutorials measure up to ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Just about two and a half years ago I wrote about some resources for doing Bayesian statistics in R. Motivated by the tutorial Modern Bayesian Tools for Time Series Analysis by Harte and Weylandt that I attended at R/Finance last month, and the upcoming tutorial An ... [Read more...]

by Lourdes O. Montenegro Lourdes O. Montenegro is a PhD candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research interests cover the intersection of applied data science, technology, economics and public policy. Many of us now find it hard to live without a ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert It is always a delight to discover a new and useful R package, and it is especially nice when the discovery comes with at context and testimonial to its effectiveness. It is also satisfying to be able to check in once in awhile and get an idea ... [Read more...]