Data Science Technology Trends A year ago I wrote about technologies Data Scientists should focus on based on industry trends. Moving into 2021, these trends remain clear - Organizations want Data Science, Cloud, and Apps. Here’s what’s happening and ...

The Hungarian Central Statistical Office uses online cash register data for the measurement of retail trade and food services. The data source allows the statistical office to considerably cut administrative burden of data providers without quality los...

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from starting out with first modeling steps to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast walks through how to get started quickly with tidymod...

We take a look at the winners vs. losers in the race to social media influencer glory!

Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks In previous blogpost we have looked into what Azure Databricks and its’ main features, who is the targeted user, and what are the capabilities of the platform. Where and…Read more ›

This post is part of a series on new features in RStudio 1.4, currently available as a preview release. Today, we continue a long-standing tradition of concluding our preview blog series with a look at some of the smaller features we’ve added to ...

There are several ways to forecast tax revenue. The IMF Financial Programming Manual reviews 3 of them: (i) the effective tax rate approach; (ii) the elasticity approach; and (iii) the regression approach. Approach (iii) typically results in the ...

If you haven’t explored the RStudio website in a while, your next visit may include a pleasant surprise. I recently went to the Tidymodels page, just to see what was new and was immediately drawn into the new landscape imagined by the RStudio education team. Clicking on Get Started ...

The Riddler has a variant on the classical (discrete) random walk around a circle where every state (but the starting point) has the same probability 1/(n-1) to be visited last. Surprising result that stems almost immediately from the property that, leaving from 0, state a is visited couterclockwise before state b__...

Version 2.0-0 of the R package 'colorspace' with tools for manipulating and assessing colors and palettes is now available from CRAN, accompanied by an updated web page, and a paper in the Journal of Statistical Software (JSS). ...

Azure Databricks is a data analytics platform (PaaS), specially optimised for Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Databricks is an enterprise-grade platform service that is unified for data lake architecture for large analytical operations. Azure Databricks combines: large scale data processing for…Read more ›

R is a programming language created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman in 1993. It was designed for analytics, statistics, and data visualizations. Nowadays, R can handle anything from basic programming to machine learning and deep learning. Today we will explore how to approach learning and practicing R for programmers. As ...

The R programming language has seen the integration of many languages; C, C++, Python, to name a few, can be seamlessly embedded into R so one can conveniently call code written in other languages from the R console. Little known to many, R works just as well with JavaScript—this ...

As digitalization progresses and data science interfaces continue to grow, new opportunities are constantly emerging to reach the personal analysis goals. Despite the „modernity“ of the industry, there is now a wealth of software for every need: From the design of the analysis infrastructure to the complete, decentralized evaluation through ...