@randyzwitch @benjamingaines @usujason I am envisioning the data science equivalent of an autonomous vehicle pileup. — Todd Belcher (@toddmetrics) May 16, 2013 Recently, I’ve been getting my blood pressure up reading (marketing) articles about “big data” and “data science”. What saddens me about the whole discussion is that there is the underlying premise that
by Joseph Rickert This past Saturday, the New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC 2013), held at Stanford University, explored the theme: Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know. The speakers were a well-chosen, eclectic lot who covered a remarkable array of issues in less than a full day. Ian Hersey, former CTO of Attensity spoke on Lessons from Large-Scale...
Everyone loves to aggregate data. Everyone loves to create new columns based on other columns. Everyone hates to do the same thing twice. In my continuing work on multilevel view of loss reserving, I reached a point where I realized that I needed a robust mechanism to aggregate computed columns. SQL server and (I’m assuming) 
# This is my first attempt to post a example of a test using Concerto 4 beta.
# See Simple Test
# This is an extremely simple test. Too simple to be useful to most people yet I believe it is didactically helpful.
Concerto is a open source R Content Management System for developing online applications. The primary purpose of Concerto is for the designing of online tests. However, the hard working programmers at the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre have created a program that is flexible enough to address a wide range of applications such as the development of statistical learning...
I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend the Amazon AWS Summit in NYC and to listen to Werner Vogels give the keynote. I will share a few of my thoughts on the AWS 2013 Summit and some of my take-aways. I attended sessions that focused on two products in particular: Redshift and
Last years UseR 2012 conference in Nashville had an interesting discussion session titled “What other languages should R users know about?“. General consensus was that multilingualism is inevitable in modern computing, and panel members presented various languages that complement R in different ways. Some of the usual suspects included SQL, python, and of course C++, ...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from March of particular interest to R users. Facebook used R to analyze profile photo changes to create a map of same-sex marriage support in the USA. Joe Rickert contrasts random sampling with fitting models directly to large data sets. A presentation by Carlos Somohano summarizes the history, skills and...
If you’re an R user, you’ve surely heard all the hype around ‘big data’ and how R is commonly used to analyze these volumes of data. One thing that’s often missing from the discussion is HOW to work around issues using big data and R, specifically how to deal with the fact that R stores
think of the pesquisa nacional por amostra de domicilios (pnad) as the brazilian census for off-years - the ones that don't end in zero. the principal household survey for the nation of brazil, pnad measures general education, labor, income, and ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
