Taxis are plentiful and convenient in New York City, but the city is also served by a wide network of commuter bicycles (Citi Bikes). If you need to get from, say, the West Village to the Garment District, are you better off time-wise hailing a cab, or heading over to ... [Read more...]

By Gabriel Vasconcelos The Julia programming language is growing fast and its efficiency and speed is now well-known. Even-though I think R is the best language for Data Science, sometimes we just need more. Modelling is an important part of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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19.10.2017 I released a new version of Bio7 for MacOSX. (Screenshots: Bio7 with Dark theme enabled. Scrollbars are set to “When scrolling” in the preferences.) For an overview of the new features please consult the release notes of Windows and Linux here: Installation: Download and extract the installation file from http://... [Read more...]

17.10.2017 A new version of Bio7 for Windows and Linux is available. The MacOSX version will be released soon, too. The application Bio7 is an integrated development environment for ecological modelling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. Beside many different tools it contains a complete Graphical User Interface for R. The ... [Read more...]

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A new rOpenSci package provides access to data to which users may already have directly contributed, and for which contribution is fun, keeps you fit, and helps made the world a better place. The data come from using public bicycle hire schemes, and the package is called bikedata. Public bicycle ... [Read more...]

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Plotly serves a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field. Here are 7 resources in Python and R created by plotly bioinformatics and biostats researchers. 1. Jupyter notebook: Visualizing bioinformatics data ... [Read more...]

One of our senior data scientists, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima spoke at the userR! conference in Brussels to a packed house. The seats were full and there were audience members spilling out the doors. Source: https://twitter.com/matlabulous/status/882530484... [Read more...]

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One of our senior data scientists, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima spoke at the userR! conference in Brussels to a packed house. The seats were full and there were audience members spilling out the doors. Source: https://twitter.com/matlabulous/status/882530484... [Read more...]

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The ROpenSci team has started publishing a new series of interviews with the goal of “demystifying the creative and development processes of R community members”. I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Kelly O'Briant earlier this year, and the interview was published on Friday. Thanks for being a ... [Read more...]

This weekend, I decided it was time: I was going to update my Python environment and get Keras and Tensorflow installed so I could start doing tutorials (particularly for deep learning) using […] [Read more...]

Coming back to markets and trading (after a while), the feeling has been that the markets, and the economy as a whole, are doing good. How good? Since I haven’t been following things closely, I had to do some forensics. Friday was the 234th trading day after the election. ... [Read more...]