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Whose dream is this? When and how to use the Keras Functional API

September 18, 2020 | Dr. Shirin Elsinghorst

I have been working with Keras for a while now, and I’ve also been writing quite a few blogposts about it; the most recent one being an update to image classification using TF 2.0. However, in my blogposts I have always been using Keras sequential models and never shown how ...

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Moving on as Head of Solutions and AI at Draper and Dash

September 18, 2020 | Gary Hutson

Well, what can I say? It has been a blast over the past year and a half. In my time at the company I have managed to work on a number of fascinating projects, here is a list of just some of them: Data Science Platform – this has been the ...

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Permutations in R

September 18, 2020 | George Pipis

During the interview process for Data Science positions, it is likely to be asked to calculate Combinations or Permutations. Today ... Read morePermutations in R [Read more...]

Sequential satisficing

September 17, 2020 | R on OSM

In our last post, we ran simulations on our 1,000 randomly generated return scenarios to compare the average and risk-adjusted return for satisfactory, naive, and mean-variance optimized (MVO) maximum return and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolios.1 We ...

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A Frosty Deal?

September 17, 2020 | R | Quantum Jitter

Reading news articles on the will-they-won’t-they post-Brexit trade negotiations with the EU sees days of optimism jarred by days of gloom. Do negative news articles, when one wants a positive outcome, leave a deeper impression? I wondered if I coul...

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R – Risk and Compliance Survey: we need your help!

September 17, 2020 | Laura Swales

We would like to evaluate how business restrictions impact the commercial usage of R. To do this, we would love... The post R – Risk and Compliance Survey: we need your help! appeared first on Mango Solutions. [Read more...]

VirtuEARL: Speaker interview

September 17, 2020 | Laura Swales

We caught up with one of our VirtuEARL speakers and EARL regulars Jeremy Horne on what we can expect from... The post VirtuEARL: Speaker interview appeared first on Mango Solutions.

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D&D’s Data Science Platform (DSP) – making healthcare analytics easier

September 17, 2020 | Gary Hutson

My current company Draper and Dash have been working on the Healthcare DSP for a number of months and we are now ready to launch. Find out what the HTN had to say: https://www.thehtn.co.uk/2020/09/15/new-health-data-science-platform-launches/ A word from D&D’s Chief Technology Officer Data Science ...

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Gold-Mining Week 2 (2020)

September 16, 2020 | Michael Griebe

Week 2 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 2 (2020) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

High School Swimming State-Off Tournament Championship California (1) vs. Texas (2)

September 16, 2020 | Swimming + Data Science

This is it folks, the big one, the finals of the State-Off Tournament, where we’ll see California (1) take on Texas (2) for high school swimming superiority. We’ll also use a t-test to determine whether or not swimmers actually swim faster in finals sessions, when the pressure is on. Oh ...

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Introducing our new book, Tidy Modeling with R

September 16, 2020 | rstats | Julia Silge

Today Max Kuhn and I are pleased to announce our new book, Tidy Modeling with R! This book focuses on how to use tidymodels and has two main goals: Readers will learn how to use R and tidymodels packages to create robust and reliable models. This...

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Learning Data Science with RStudio Cloud: A Student’s Perspective

September 16, 2020 | Daniel Petzold, Carl Howe

On August 5, 2020, RStudio announced the general availability of RStudio Cloud, its cloud-based platform for doing, teaching, and learning data science using only a browser. We often recommend RStudio Cloud to teachers because it simplifies ...

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Risk Scoring in Digital Contact Tracing Apps

September 16, 2020 | Theory meets practice...

Abstract: We attempt a mathematical description of the risk scoring algorithm used in the Google and Apple exposure notification framework (v1). This algorithm is used in many digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19, e.g., in Germany or Switzerland. ... [Read more...]

What’s new in DALEX and DALEXtra

September 16, 2020 | Szymon Maksymiuk

The DALEX package version 2.0 was released on CRAN on September the 4th, followed by the DALEXtra release. At first, I’d like to assure You, we did our best to maintain backward compatibility. I am here to cover major changes and at the same time prese...

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How to Scrape Word Documents with R

September 15, 2020 | Business Science

This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Today we discuss an awesome skill for automating data collection from word documents: Get the Code: GitHub Link Video T...

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Predicting pneumonia outcomes: Results (using DataRobot API)

September 15, 2020 | R on notast

This post is a supplementary material for an assignment. The assignment is part of the Augmented Machine Learning unit for a Specialised Diploma in Data Science for Business. The aim of this project is to classify if patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) became better after seeing a doctor or ...

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Some Thoughts on R / Medicine 2020

September 15, 2020 | R Views

The third annual R / Medicine Conference was held online this year from August 27th to August 29th and was an unqualified success. The last minute pivot from small, in-person conference, which was to be held onsite at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP, to a virtual event turned out ... [Read more...]

How to Explore Data: {DataExplorer} Package

September 15, 2020 | Exploring Data

“Exploring-Data” is an R-Centric blog in which I share easily digestible content aimed at making the wrangling and exploration of data more efficient and more fun. Sign up HERE to join other subscribers who also nerd-out on tips for exploring data...

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Big Data Ignite 2020 Webinar Series

September 15, 2020 | Nagdev Amruthnath

Big Data Ignite (BDI) was born out of a shared vision: To foster a local center of excellence in advanced computing technologies and practice. After initial success in organizing local Meetup groups, co-founders Elliott and Tuhin realized that to achieve their goal, the scope and scale of activism would need ... [Read more...]

Why R? Webinar – Me, Myself and my Rprofile

September 15, 2020 | Marcin Kosiński

This Thursday September 17 we are lauching another [whyr.pl/webinars/][http://whyr.pl/webinars/] entitled Me, Myself and my Rprofile 2020-09-17 Me, Myself and my Rprofile speaker: Colin Gillespie meetup event webinar Details donate: w... [Read more...]

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