On January 12, 2016, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani will offer the 3rd iteration of Statistical Learning, a MOOC which first began in January 2014, and has become quite a popular course among data scientists. It is a great place to learn statistical learning (machine learning) methods using the R ...

One of the big flaw of R is that data loaded into it are stored in the memory (on the RAM) and not on the disk. As you are working in an analysis with large (big) data the processing time of simple and more complex functions can become very long ...

We here at Win-Vector LLC been working through an ad-hoc series about A/B testing combining elements of both operations research and statistical points of view. A dynamic programming solution to A/B test design Why does designing a simple A/B test seem so complicated? A clear picture of ...