2019

Data Science on Rails: Analyzing Customer Churn

November 5, 2019 | Learning Machines

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is not only about acquiring new customers but especially about retaining existing ones. That is because acquisition is often much more expensive than retention. In this post, we learn how to analyze the reasons of customer churn (i.e. customers leaving the company). We do this ... [Read more...]

Using RcppParallel to aggregate to a vector

November 4, 2019 | Rcpp Gallery

This article demonstrates using the RcppParallel package to aggregate to an output vector. It extends directly from previous demonstrations of single-valued aggregation, through providing necessary details to enable aggregation to a vector, or by exten... [Read more...]

A First Look at Confidence Distributions

November 4, 2019 | R Views

Using a probability distribution to characterize uncertainty is at the core of statistical inference. So, it seems natural to try to summarize the information about the parameters in statistical models with probability distributions. R. A. Fisher thought so. In fact, he expended a great deal of effort over more than ... [Read more...]

Spatial Data Analysis with INLA

November 4, 2019 | R on Coding Club UC3M

by Virgilio Gómez Rubio Introduction In this session I will focus on Bayesian inference using the integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) method. As described in Rue et al. (2009), INLA can be used to estimate the posterior marginal distribution of Bayesian hierarchical models. This method is implemented in the INLA ...
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November Thanksgiving – Data Science Style!

November 4, 2019 | JOURNEYOFANALYTICS

Hello All, November is the month of Thanksgiving, and vacations and of course deals galore! As part of saying thanks to my loyal readers, here are some deals specific to data science professionals and students, that you should definitely not miss on. Book deals: If you are exploring Data Science ...
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November Thanksgiving – Data Science Style!

November 4, 2019 | JOURNEYOFANALYTICS

Hello All, November is the month of Thanksgiving, and vacations and of course deals galore! As part of saying thanks to my loyal readers, here are some deals specific to data science professionals and students, that you should definitely not miss on. Book deals: If you are exploring Data Science ...
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Why empathy is key for Data Science initiatives

November 4, 2019 | Kasia Kulma

When we think of empathy in a career, we perhaps think of a nurse with a good bedside manner, or perhaps a particularly astute manager or HR professional. Data science is probably one of the last disciplines where empathy would seem to be important. However, this misconception is one that ... [Read more...]

Installing Prophet on CentOS

November 3, 2019 | R | datawookie

I’ve been struggling to get the {prophet} package to install on two RHEL 7 systems. Since I only have intermittent access to those systems I opted to use a local install of CentOS as a proxy environment. These instructions work for CentOS and sho...
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Installing Prophet on CentOS

November 3, 2019 | R | datawookie

I’ve been struggling to get the {prophet} package to install on two RHEL 7 systems. Since I only have intermittent access to those systems I opted to use a local install of CentOS as a proxy environment. These instructions work for CentOS and should generalise to RHEL too. Setting Up ... [Read more...]

Exploratory analysis of a banana

November 3, 2019 | mrtnj

This post is just me amusing myself by exploring a tiny data set I have lying around. The dataset and the code is on Github. In 2014 (I think), I was teaching the introductory cell biology labs (pictures in the linked post) in Linköping. We were doing a series of ...
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