In my previous post, I discussed Gartner's reviews of data science software companies. In this post, I show Forrester's coverage and discuss how radically different it is. As usual, this post is already integrated into my regularly-updated article, The Popularity of Data Science Software. Continue reading →

Francis Anscombe's seminal paper on "Graphs in Statistical" analysis (American Statistician, 1973) effectively makes the case that looking at summary statistics of data is insufficient to identify the relationship between variables. He demonstrates this by generating four different data sets (Anscombe's quartet) which have nearly identical summary statistics. His data have ...

Do you know where all the scooters are in your city? Available devices by provider in Los AngelesYou may have been following the scooter craze or have seen scooters or e-bikes pop-up on sidewalks throughout your neighborhood. Have you ever been curious about where all the scooters are located in ...

From https://twitter.com/sharon000/status/1107771331012108288: From https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/dev/articles/pivot.html: There are two important new features inspired by other R packages that have been advancing of reshaping in R: The reshaping operation can be specified with a data frame that describes precisely how metadata stored ...

Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Skipper Seabold, a Director of Data Science at Civis Analytics. Introducing Skipper Seabold Hugo: Hi there, Skipper, and welcome to Data Framed. Skipper: Thanks. Happy to be here. Hugo: Great to have you on the show. I'm really excited ...

RStudio have recently announced ‘RStudio Connect QuickStart’ which is a VM containing a full suite of RStudio’s pro tools, available to be trialled for a 45 day period. RStudio Connect Quickstart allows R users and people exploring the idea of using R in production, a quick and easy way to ...

Opening the black-box in complex models: SHAP values. What are they and how to draw conclusions from them? With R code example!

We recently commented on excess package dependencies as representing risk in the R package ecosystem. The question remains: how much risk? Is low dependency a mere talisman, or is there evidence it is a good practice (or at least correlates with other good practices)? Well, it turns out we can ...

CategoriesGetting Data Tags Data Management Plot R Programming Since the initial publication of the Three Factor Model by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French in their influential 1993 paper (Common Risk Factors in the Returns of Stocks and Bonds) a lot of academic research has been dedicated to the analysis of factors ...

Lately, R meta programmation seems to be in vogue. Very huge promises, encompassing code to produce code, variable indirection naming schemes, and many others marvelous features are now available through the tidyverse. Indeed, very huge promises, are g...

Andrew Mangano is the Director of eCommerce Analytics at Albertsons Companies. Part I - Modelling The reticulate package integrates Python within R and, when used with RStudio 1.2, brings the two languages together like never before. Much more important than the technical details of how it all works is the impact ...

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