I’m currently working on a paper (with my colleague Vincent Vergnat who is also a Phd candidate at BETA) where I want to estimate the causal impact of the birth of a child on hourly and daily wages as well as yearly worked hours. For this we are using ... [Read more...]

I’m currently working on a paper (with my colleague Vincent Vergnat who is also a Phd candidate at BETA) where I want to estimate the causal impact of the birth of a child on hourly and daily wages as well as yearly worked hours. For this we are using ... [Read more...]

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Nowadays, the data science field is hot, and it is unlikely that this will change in the near future. While a data driven approach is finding its way into all facets of business, companies are fiercely fighting for the best data analytic skills that are available in the market, and ... [Read more...]

by David Russell, fluent-r developer fluent-r is a new R analytics integration library for JVM application developers that improves upon existing solutions for integrating R analytics services delivered by popular open source R integration servers DeployR and OpenCPU. The fluent-r library provides a natural-language DSL alongside a simple API that ... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (November 6, 2015). The introduction of htmlwidgetshas opened up a wide-range of options for R-users without having the need to pick-up on JavaScript to create great charts and I would like to thank the ... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (November 6, 2015). The introduction of htmlwidgetshas opened up a wide-range of options for R-users without having the need to pick-up on Java... [Read more...]

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Written by Ben Young, an EARL Boston attendee. http://completelyabsorbed.com/ A week ago I flew to Boston, Massachusetts for EARL 2015. This was my first business trip, and as such I was very excited. The conference, speakers, and attendees did not … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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I continue with the growth curve model for loss reserving from last week’s post. Today, following the ideas of James Guszcza [2] I will add an hierarchical component to the model, by treating the ultimate loss cost of an accident year as a random effect. Initially, I will use the ... [Read more...]

I continue with the growth curve model for loss reserving from last week's post. Today, following the ideas of James Guszcza [2] I will add an hierarchical component to the model, by treating the ultimate loss cost of an accident year as a random effect. Initially, I will use the nlme ... [Read more...]

We have two public appearances coming up in the next few weeks: Workshop at ODSC, San Francisco – November 14 Both of us will be giving a two-hour workshop called Preparing Data for Analysis using R: Basic through Advanced Techniques. We will cover key issues in this important but often neglected aspect ... [Read more...]

  [social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”]   Indrajit Roy, Principal Researcher, Hewlett Packard Labs Due to R’s popularity as a data mining [Read more...]

This is the initial installment of a weekly post on notable articles on the data-driven trend. Topics covered include self-service …Continue reading → [Read more...]

Betterment, the online automated investing service, uses R for modeling, analysis and reporting. In a recent blog post on the company website, data scientist Sam Swift suggests using R or Python as open data analysis platforms and goes on to reveal: Here at Betterment, we use both. We use Python ... [Read more...]

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Last week I spoke about my census-mapping work at two great venues: the EARL Conference in Boston and the NY Open Statistical Programming Meetup in New York. After my talks many people shared their own experiences mapping public datasets. I thought that I would pass along that information in case ... [Read more...]

A few weeks ago I gave a two-hour Introduction to R workshop for the Master of Engineering Management students at Duke. The session was organized by the student-led Career Development and Alumni Relations committee within this program. The slides for the … Continue reading → [Read more...]