Last week on the radio I heard a story of southern Europeans and Irish looking for better times in northern Europe. I heard the tale of an Italian academic who left Italy to end up waiting tables in an Italian restaurant in the Netherlands. Obviously t...
R code and data for book “R and Data Mining: Examples and Case Studies” are now available at http://www.rdatamining.com/books/rdm/code. An online PDF version of the book (the first 11 chapters only) can also be downloaded at http://www.rdatamining.com/docs. Below are its … Continue reading →
After the work I did for my last post, I wanted to practice doing multiple classification. I first thought of using the famous iris dataset, but felt that was a little boring. Ideally, I wanted to look for a practice … Continue reading →
I'm grateful to Rook for helping me, a simple statistician, learn a few fundamentals of web technology. For R web application development, there are increasingly polished methods available (most notably Shiny ), but you can build one...
On November, the 27th, a special post took my interest. Scott Mutchler presented a small framework for predictive analytics based on the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) and a Java-based REST-Interface. PMML is a XML based standard for the description and exchange of analytical models. The idea is that every piece of software which supports the corresponding...
R, which was largely predominant in the academic world, has started picking up a lot in businesses as well. At least that is what I am witnessing among my colleagues. Lot of people have started experimenting with R, choosing the path to enlightenment. ...
Updated 12.2.2012: Added sample output based on a suggestion from Stefan Karpinski. Introduction Over the last few weeks, the Julia core team has rolled out a demo version of Julia’s package management system. While the Julia package system is still very much in beta, it nevertheless provides the first plausible way for non-expert users to
The other day I stumbled accross an amazing PMML model API called jpmml. It's written in Java and supports PMML 4.1 (and older). Neural networks, random forests, regression and trees PMML models can be consumed and used for scoring.I decide...
This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Using RYes, this post condenses 50+ hours of learning into a 15 minute tutorial. Read ‘em and weep. (That is, you read while I weep.) OK. For the last week … read more ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
