On 27th of October I’m going to attend the 7th MilanoR meeting featuring the following two talks: 1. Interactive big data analysis with R: SparkR and MongoDB: a friendly walkthrough  by  Thimoty Barbieri and Marco Biglieri 2. Power consumption prediction based on statistical learning techniques by Davide Pandini This is my ... [Read more...]

Installing RStudio in Ubuntu 12.04 and higher versions requires R to be installed. The steps given in this post will help to install R and RStudio. [Read more...]

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by Graham Williams, Director of Data Science, Microsoft Programming is an art and a way we express ourselves. As we write our programs we should keep in mind that someone else is very likely to be reading it. We can facilitate the accessibility of our programs through a clear presentation ... [Read more...]

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You would like to attend the meeting but could not get a ticket? Follow the live event online! The post 7th MilanoR Meeting live on Facebook appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

Data Science is sometimes a stressful and responsible job… so we spontaneously organize mini R quizzes in our R team at the company! Chaining R packages One of my favourite fast 5-minutes long R game is chaining R packages. One person says the nam... [Read more...]

As a grad student working primarily on statistical methodology, I regularly experience phases of total disillusionment with math/stats. Recently I realized that when I don’t feel like doing “real” math for prolonged periods of time, I instead ... [Read more...]

The aim of intubate (logo ) is to offer a painless way to add R functions that are non-pipe-aware to data science pipelines implemented by magrittr with the operator %__%, without having to rely on workarounds of varying complexity. Instal... [Read more...]

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As a grad student working primarily on statistical methodology, I regularly experience phases of total disillusionment with math/stats. Recently I realized that when I don’t feel like doing “real” math for prolonged periods of time, I instead ... [Read more...]

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If you didn't have a chance to catch my presentation at the Machine Learning and Data Science Summit, I'll be reprising an updated version of the talk in a live webinar on Tuesday, November 1. I'll also be taking questions from the audience after the webinar. You can register here, and ... [Read more...]

A new, development version, of package JMbayes has been rolled-out on the dedicated GitHub repo. The major addition in this version is a set of new functions that can fit multivariate joint models for multiple longitudinal outcomes and a time-to-event. As with other GitHub packages, it can be easily installed ... [Read more...]

In the commercial environment money makes the world go around, while in academia recognition (e.g., number of times your work is cited, being fawned over at conferences, impressive job titles) is the coin of the realm (there are a few odd balls who do it out of love for ... [Read more...]

This is the latest post in a series analyzing Arkansas traffic fatalities. Please take a look at parts 1 (a map of 2015 traffic deaths), 2 (heat maps of fatalities by day from 2000-2015), and 3 (heat maps of fatalities by day of week from 2000-2015) if you haven’t already. Visualizations Today’s ... [Read more...]

Digital transformation or digital business transformation is apparently currently one of the hot topics in the German business world. What puzzles me slightly, is why just now? The digitization trend has been around for ~20 years. Established buisness ... [Read more...]

This set of exercises will help you to learn and test your skill with basic arithmetical operations and logic functions. Before proceeding, it might be helpful to look over the help pages for the **, %/%, %%, and the logical operators such as !=, ==, __=, isTRUE . Answers to the exercises are available here. […] [Read more...]

Guest post by AVNER KANTOR I used the wonderful tutorial of Dean Attall to set my machine in Google cloud. After I finished to configure it successfully I wanted to redirect my domain to the Shiny application URL. This is a short description how you can do it. The first ... [Read more...]

Someone sent me some questions by email, and I decided to answer some of them here. How important is it that I know and understand the underlying mathematical framework to forecasting methods? I understand conceptually how most of them work, but I feel as if I may benefit from truly ... [Read more...]