In January, I was excited to make an announcement about a shift in my career: I have some exciting news: today I'm joining @DataCamp as their Chief Data Scientist 🎉📊📈 pic.twitter.com/wiN9J4qSjx— David Robinson (@drob) January 29, 2018 When I first discussed the role with the DataCamp CEO, I ...

  Data science gives you tools to find opportunities A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about Amazon’s search for a location for a second headquarters. For those of you who don’t know about it, the technology giant – which currently has its headquarters in Seattle Washington – announced ...

Distributional regression trees and forests provide flexible data-driven probabilistic forecasts by blending distributional models (for location, scale, shape, and beyond) with regression trees and random forests. Accompanied by the R package disttree. Citation Lisa Schlosser, Torsten Hothorn, Reto Stauffer, Achim Zeileis (2018). “Distributional Regression Forests for Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasting in Complex ...

INTRODUCTION Highcharter is a R wrapper for Highcharts javascript libray and its modules. Highcharts is very mature and flexible javascript charting library and it has a great and powerful API. Before proceeding, please follow our short tutorial. Look at the examples given and try to understand the logic behind them. ...

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is a widely used measure of concentration in a variety of fields including, business, economics, political science, finance, and many others. Though simple to calculate (summed squared market shares of firms/actors in a single market/space), calculation of the HHI can get onerous, especially as ...

My goal this month is to offer some fun tutorials and introductions to the R statistical language and R Studio software. But you may find, at some point, that you need a little...And that's okay! R can have a very steep learning curve, but even for an ...

This post is to announce a second occurrence of the exciting “masterclass in Bayesian Statistics” that we organised in 2016, near Marseilles. It will take place on 22-26 October 2018 once more at CIRM (Centre International de Recherches Mathématiques, Luminy, Marseilles, France). The targeted audience includes all scientists interested in learning ...

Today, we’re going to combine 2 powerful Microsoft tools into one analysis: Cognitive Services, and Power BI. If you’re like me, you’re already doing your data analysis in Power BI. Similarly, you’re using Cognitive Services as your artificial intelligence multi-tool. But somehow, there isn’t a button ...