eXtreme Gradient Boosting is a machine learning model which became really popular few years ago after winning several Kaggle competitions. It is very powerful algorithm that use an ensemble of weak learners to obtain a strong learner. Its R implementation is available in xgboost package and it is really worth ... [Read more...]

This is common case when working with data that your source is a remote database. Usual ways to cope this when using R is either to load all the data into R or to perform the heaviest joins and aggregations with SQL before loading the data. Both of them have ... [Read more...]

This is common case when working with data that your source is a remote database. Usual ways to cope this when using R is either to load all the data into R or to perform the heaviest joins and aggregations with SQL before loading the data. Both of them have ... [Read more...]