Fulfill your destiny - “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is in cinemas since December 14th (in Germany). I visited the midnight premiere with a double feature with Episode 7 and 8. Today I want to present a combination of some things I love: Sta...

With 55 points from 19 games, Manchester City look absolutely unstoppable. No matter how you put it, the league leaders have been the best team so far this season.

Subscriptions are no longer just for newspapers. In this post we explore how we can leverage multi-state churn analysis so brand decision makers can focus their outreach and acquisition efforts toward customers that have a higher probability of remaining in an active state for a longer period of time.

Whether „Driving Home for Christmas“, „Winter Wonderland“, „Let it snow!“ or „Last Christmas“ – every year christmas songs are taking over the charts again. While average Joe is joyfully putting…

Whether „Driving Home for Christmas“, „Winter Wonderland“, „Let it snow!“ or „Last Christmas“ – every year christmas songs are taking over the charts again. While average Joe is joyfully putting on the next christmas song, the data scientist starts his journey of discovery through the snowy music history.   The data set ...

This post aims to bring out some not-so-obvious subtle insights from analyzing TED Videos posted on TED.com. For those who do not know what is TED, Here’s the summary from Wikipedia: TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization which posts talks online for free distribution, under the ...

We are thrilled to announce the dates for next year’s EARL London: 11-13 September 2018 (make sure you pop these dates in your calendars!). Call for abstracts Abstract...

Following five R in Insurance conferences, we are organising the first Insurance Data Science conference at Cass Business School London, 16 July 2018. In 2013, we started with the aim to bring practitioners of industry and academia together to discuss and exchange ideas and needs from both sides. R was and is a ...

A simple Le Monde mathematical puzzle after two geometric ones I did not consider: Bob gets a 2×3 card with three integer entries on the first row and two integer entries on the second row such that (i) entry (1,1) is 1, (ii) summing up subsets of adjacent entries produces all integers from 1 ...

Getting started with notebooks is as easy as clicking a button on Datazar. Notebooks are great tools that make — creating and sharing reproducible analysis — super easy. To create R or Python notebooks, follow these directions: I. Navigate to your project, or create a new one if you don’t have ...

What is Hierarchical Clustering? Clustering is a technique to club similar data points into one group and separate out dissimilar observations into different groups or clusters. In Hierarchical Clustering, clusters are created such that they have a predetermined ordering i.e. a hierarchy. For example, consider the concept hierarchy of ...

Hello R users! We just launched another course: Working with Dates and Times in R by Charlotte Wickham! Dates and times are abundant in data and essential for answering questions that start with when, how long, or how often. However, they can be tricky, as they come in a variety ...