2017

Citibike Business Opportunity: Advertising

October 15, 2017 | Josh Yoon

Introduction It is hard to wander around New York City without seeing rows of dozens of bright blue Citibikes planted in the middle of busiest nooks […] The post Citibike Business Opportunity: Advertising appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Citibike Business Opportunity: Advertising

October 15, 2017 | Josh Yoon

Introduction It is hard to wander around New York City without seeing rows of dozens of bright blue Citibikes planted in the middle of busiest nooks […] The post Citibike Business Opportunity: Advertising appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog. [Read more...]

Barplot with ggplot2/plotly

October 15, 2017 | rdata.lu Blog | Data science with R

Hello everyones, I just finished my MOOC on Foundations of strategic business analitycs. It was interresting and at the end of this course, I had to present a graph that was suppose to be relevent for a business organization. Different datasets were availables: speed dating, Co2 emissons, bike sharing, loans, ... [Read more...]

Can we use B-splines to generate non-linear data?

October 15, 2017 | Keith Goldfeld

I’m exploring the idea of adding a function or set of functions to the simstudy package that would make it possible to easily generate non-linear data. One way to do this would be using B-splines. Typically, one uses splines to fit a curve to data, but I thought it ...

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Sales Analytics: How to Use Machine Learning to Predict and Optimize Product Backorders

October 15, 2017 | business-science.io - Articles

Sales, customer service, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing… no matter which department you’re in, you more than likely care about backorders. Backorders are products that are temporarily out of stock, but a customer is permitted to place an order against future inventory. Back orders are both good and bad: ... [Read more...]

Why Use Docker with R? A DevOps Perspective

October 15, 2017 | Jeroen Ooms

There have been several blog posts going around about why one would use Docker with R. In this post I’ll try to add a DevOps point of view and explain how containerizing R is used in the context of the OpenCPU system for building and deploying R servers. Has ...

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Uncovering Business Opportunities with License Geolocation Data

October 15, 2017 | Kathryn Bryant

Motivation Starting or expanding a business is a resource-demanding endeavor that often requires significant research on behalf of an entrepreneur. While most large, established businesses have […] The post Uncovering Business Opportunities with License Geolocation Data appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Uncovering Business Opportunities with License Geolocation Data

October 15, 2017 | Kathryn Bryant

Motivation Starting or expanding a business is a resource-demanding endeavor that often requires significant research on behalf of an entrepreneur. While most large, established businesses have […] The post Uncovering Business Opportunities with License Geolocation Data appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Rats in NYC! A Retrospective

October 15, 2017 | Ben Brunson

32 million dollars. Take a while, let that sink in. Thirty-two. Million. Dollars. Three months ago, mayor de Blasio presented a $32 million dollar plan to […] The post Rats in NYC! A Retrospective appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Rats in NYC! A Retrospective

October 15, 2017 | Ben Brunson

32 million dollars. Take a while, let that sink in. Thirty-two. Million. Dollars. Three months ago, mayor de Blasio presented a $32 million dollar plan to […] The post Rats in NYC! A Retrospective appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Running R Code in Parallel

October 14, 2017 | Andrew Treadway

Background Running R code in parallel can be very useful in speeding up performance. Basically, parallelization allows you to run multiple processes in your code simultaneously, rather than than iterating over a list one element at a time, or running a single process at a time. Thankfully, running R code ...

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Creating interactive SVG tables in R

October 14, 2017 | Riddhiman

In this post we will explore how to make SVG tables in R using plotly. The tables are visually appealing and can be modified on the fly using simple drag and drop. Make sure you install the latest version of Plotly i.e. v 4.7.1.9 from Github using devtools::install_github("...

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New Zealand fatal traffic crashes by @ellis2013nz

October 14, 2017 | Peter's stats stuff - R

Traffic fatalities in the news Fatalities from traffic crashes have been in the news in New Zealand recently, for tragic reasons. For once, data beyond the short term have come into the debate. Sam Warburton has written two good articles on the topi... [Read more...]

An AI pitches startup ideas

October 13, 2017 | David Smith

Take a look at this list of 13 hot startups, from a list compiled by Alex Bresler. Perhaps one of them is the next Juicero? FAR ATHERA: A CLINICAL AI PLATFORM THAT CAN BE ACCESSED ON DEMAND. ZAPSY: TRY-AT-HOME SERVICE FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS. MADESS: ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER. DEERG: AI ... [Read more...]

R for Business Analysts, NYC Data Science Academy in-person training | November 6 @NYC

October 13, 2017 | claire.tu

R is a powerful language used widely for business analytics. More companies are seeking business analysts with knowledge of R. In this R for Business Analysts […] The post R for Business Analysts, NYC Data Science Academy in-person training | November 6 @NYC appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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R for Business Analysts, NYC Data Science Academy in-person training | November 6 @NYC

October 13, 2017 | claire.tu

R is a powerful language used widely for business analytics. More companies are seeking business analysts with knowledge of R. In this R for Business Analysts […] The post R for Business Analysts, NYC Data Science Academy in-person training | November 6 @NYC appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog. [Read more...]

Uber assignment with lpSolve

October 13, 2017 | insightr

By Yuri Fonseca In this post we are going to make an Uber assignment simulation and calculate some metrics of waiting time through simulation. Setting Suppose we live in a 100×100 block city where each block takes 1 minute to … Continue reading →

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Could G-Cloud pricing be simplified?

October 13, 2017 | Carl Goodwin

By constraining the number of available pricing approaches in each category, and tightening the scope of some categories, this could be achieved. The post Could G-Cloud pricing be simplified? appeared first on thinkr.

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.rprofile: David Smith

October 13, 2017 | Kelly O'Briant

In this occasional series, we interview someone using a loosely defined set of interview questions for the purpose of “Demystifying the Creative/Development Process of the R Community”. This interview was conducted and prepared by Kelly O'Briant as part of an rOpenSci unconf17 project. David Smith is a Blogger and ... [Read more...]

Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2

October 12, 2017 | Tinniam V Ganesh

In this 2nd part of the series “Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2”, I continue where I left off in my first post Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 2. In this post I cover the some classification algorithmns and cross validation. Specifically I touch -Logistic Regression ...

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