Last week at the ODSC West conference, I was thrilled with the interest in my Using AI for Good workshop: it was wonderful to find a room full of data scientists eager to learn how data science and artificial intelligence can be used to help people and the planet. The ...

So you know lapply, sapply, and apply…but…what about rapply, vapply, or eapply? These are generally a little less known as far as the apply family of functions in R go, so this post will explore how they work. rapply Let’s start with rapply. This function has a ...

CategoriesVisualizing Data Tags Data Visualisation ggplot2 R Programming One of the most frustrating issues I face in my professional life is the plentitude of ineffective reports generated within my company. Wherever I look around me is plenty of junk charts, like barplot showing useless 3D effects or ambiguous and crowded ...

The glmnet function (from the package of the same name) is probably the most used function for fitting the elastic net model in R. (It also fits the lasso and ridge regression, since they are special cases of elastic net.) … Continue reading →

Antarctic/Southern Ocean science and rOpenSci Collaboration and reproducibility are fundamental to Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, and the value of data to Antarctic science has long been promoted. The Antarctic Treaty (which came into force in 1961) included the provision that scientific observations and results from Antarctica should be openly ...

Radar plots visualize several variables using a radial layout. This plot is most suitable for visualizing and comparing the properties associated with individual objects. In the following, we will use a radar plot for comparing the characteristics of whiskeys from different distilleries. A data set on whiskey Some of you ...

At the upcoming This week in machine learning and AI European online Meetup, I’ll be presenting and leading a discussion about the Anchors paper, the next generation of machine learning interpretability tools. Come and join the fun! :-) Date: Tuesda...

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Angela Bassa, the Director of Data Science at iRobot. Here is the podcast link. Introducing Angela Bassa Hugo: Hi there Angela, and welcome to DataFramed. Angela: Thanks, thanks for having me. Hugo: It's a great pleasure to have you ...

Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve published articles about my new package, MCHT, starting with an introduction, a further technical discussion, demonstrating maximized Monte Carlo (MMC) hypothesis testing, bootstrap hypothesis testing, and last week I showed how to handle multi-sample and multivariate data. This is the final article ...

This note is about attempting to remove the bias brought in by using sample standard deviation estimates to estimate an unknown true standard deviation of a population. We establish there is a bias, concentrate on why it is not important to remove it for reasonable sized samples, and (despite that) ...

I have been playing with package called imager, documentation on this package was extremely helpful! I have read through “getting started” as well as few other tutorial & examples. I love colours… Tools like colourlovers, Adobe Color CC, Canva Color Palette Generators are great extracting colours from photo (or in general ...

In order to understand how a clustering algorithm works, good sample datasets are useful to highlight its behavior under certain circumstances. This post shows how to generate 9 datasets: a mixture of two Gaussians with same size, variance and no covariance, Gaussians which differ only from their means and sizes, Gaussians ...