Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks Dec 02: How to get started with Azure Databricks Dec 03: Getting to know the workspace and Azure Databricks platform Dec 04: Creating your first Azure Databricks cluster Dec 05: Understanding Azure Databricks cluster architecture, workers,…Read more ›

Would you like to put your data science skills to the test? Imperial College London, Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM), and actuarial institutes in Singapore, the UK, including the IFoA, and Australia, ASTIN, the Casualty Actuarial Society are co-organising a global data science competition. Would you like to accurately predict ...

Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks Dec 02: How to get started with Azure Databricks Dec 03: Getting to know the workspace and Azure Databricks platform Dec 04: Creating your first Azure Databricks cluster Dec 05: Understanding Azure Databricks cluster architecture, workers,…Read more ›

A new version of vcr was just released. See the release notes for all the details. I want to highlight a few of the more notable changes. New contributor vcr has a new author: Maëlle Salmon. She has been contributing to the package quite a lot lat...

rOpenSci HQ We’re thrilled to announce three new rOpenSci Software Review Editors: Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, and Mauro Lepore and we released the fifth version (v0.5) of the rOpenSci Developer Guide. Our Community Call on The Wild Worl...

A short Riddler’s riddle on the maximum number of Fridays 13th over a calendar year, of which I found 9 by a dumb exploration : bi=c(1:31,1:29,1:31,1:30,1:31,1:30,1:31,1:31,1:30,1:31,1:30,1:31) oy=bi[-60] for(j in 0:(length(cy

Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz As COVID-19 continues to impact people’s lives, we are interested in predicting case trends of the near future. Trying to... The post Nearcasting: Comparison of COVID-19 Projection Methods appeared first on R Consortium.

Originally published in the TIBCO Community Blog, by Adam Faskowitz R0, the basic reproduction number, and Rt, the time-varying reproduction number, are quantities used when trying to understand the reproduction... The post Estimating COVID-19 Trends using GAMLSS appeared first on R Consortium.

Azure Functions is a cloud service that allows you to deploy “serverless” microservices that are triggered by events (timers, HTTP POST events, etc) and automatically scale to serve demand while minimizing latency. The service natively supports functions written in C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python and TypeScript, and now supports other ...

Everybody loves a good dashboard. They are the best way to visualize data and provide insights. As the requirements get longer and time frames get shorter, dashboards can quickly become a nightmare to maintain. That’s where refactoring comes into play. Are you developing dashboards in Python and Dash? Here’...

Accuracy can be misleading. These 3 alternatives can't. The post Top 3 Classification Machine Learning Metrics – Ditch Accuracy Once and For All appeared first on Better Data Science.

In R you can add extra library locations (directories where your packages are installed) with the .libPaths() function. For example, to add "~/my/lib", you can do libs

Dynamical systems theory provides a unifying framework for studying how systems as disparate as the climate and the behaviour of humans change over time. In this blog post, I provide an introduction to some of its core concepts. Since the study of dyna...

Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks Dec 02: How to get started with Azure Databricks Dec 03: Getting to know the workspace and Azure Databricks platform Dec 04: Creating your first Azure Databricks cluster Dec 05: Understanding Azure Databricks cluster architecture, workers,…Read more ›