Advancements in Symbolic Data Analysis The sixth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on October 27th, 2021. With the development of digital systems, very large datasets have become routine. However, standard statistical app...

When building risk scorecards, apart from the variety of performance metrics, analysts also assess something known as risk-ranking i.e. whether or not the observed event rates increase (or decrease) monotonically with increasing (or decreasing) scores...

Advances in Difference-in-Differences in Econometrics The eighth “One World webinar” organized by YoungStatS will take place on December 13th, 2021. The difference-in-differences design is a quasi-experimental identification strategy for estimatin...

Disclosure risk for microdata Protection against disclosure is a legal and ethical obligation for agencies releasing microdata files for public use. Consider a microdata sample \({X}_n=(X_{1},\ldots,X_{n})\) of size \(n\) from a finite population ...

I was recently browsing reddit and found this AMA from a former mercedes strategy engineer The most surprising thing was that most of the race strategy was calculated using VBA in excel. This isn’t some start up outfit this is the mighty Mercedes winners of the last 7 constructors and ...

Introduction to machine learning with TensorFlow! What is TensorFlow? The Google Brain team created TensorFlow, an open-source library. It was designed for activities that need a lot of numerical computations. TensorFlow was designed specific...

The Google Brain team created TensorFlow, an open-source library. It was designed for activities that need a lot of numerical computations. TensorFlow was designed specifically for machine learning and deep learning networks. TensorFlow ran faster than python code thanks to the use of C/C++ as a backend. The post ...

Hey: we are sharing some twenty open, free R notebooks to learn Data Science in R here! Our big educational gig is back: DATA SCIENCE SESSIONS VOL. 1 :: 2021/22, a 24 weeks, intense, introductory Data Science course in R will begin in October 2021. The course material is GPLv2 licensed, which means that you […]

Decorators have been made quite popular by Python but, did you know they also exist in R?Photo by Lenny Kuhne on UnsplashDecorators are typically used to extend the behaviour of a function in an elegant and minimally invasive way. Graphically, we can t...

Take the first R steps and enhance your data science toolkit with us on October 20th! Would you like to discover the basics of R programming and get solid foundations for future learning? Even if you are an absolute beginner, the workshop “R basics ...

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Photo by Mick Fournier / HBI Producers of Fine Orchids This post describes some of the improvements contained in the RStudio update 2021.09.0, code-named Ghost Orchid: Calendar Versioning Improved Usability When R is Busy Logging Changes High DPI Ret...

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from just getting started to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast walks through how to build, tune, and evaluate a multiclass predictive model ...