by Derek McCrae Norton - Senior Sales Engineer Optimization is something that I hear clients ask for on a fairly regular basis. There are many problems that a few functions to carry out optimization can solve. R has much of this functionality in the base product, such as nlm(), and ... [Read more...]

by Derek McCrae Norton, Senior Sales Engineer To celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day the best (and by far the nerdiest) way I know how, I thought I would share some R code I wrote a few years back. Some of you will really appreciate the code (but you probably ... [Read more...]

by Derek McCrae Norton, Senior Sales Engineer In this third installment (following part 1 and part 2) of Extending RevoScaleR for Mining Big Data we look at how to use the building blocks provided by RevoScaleR to create a Naive Bayes model. Motivation: Fit a Naive Bayes model to big data. Naive ... [Read more...]

by Derek McCrae Norton, Senior Sales Engineer In this second installment of Extending RevoScaleR for Mining Big Data we look at how to use the building blocks provided by RevoScaleR to transform continuous variables into discrete. Motivation: Discretize continuous variables on big data. Discretization is a technique to convert continuous ... [Read more...]

by Derek McCrae Norton, Senior Sales Engineer It is my job to help potential clients see that the tasks they are used to completing can be completed on big data in Revolution R Enterprise (and that it is easy). Honestly, this is my dream job, and in my eyes it ... [Read more...]