productivity

Predictive analytics: Some ways to waste time

August 17, 2012 | Christoph

I am starting to take part at different competitions at kaggle and crowdanalytics. The goal of most competitions is to predict a certain outcome given some covariables.  It is a lot of fun trying out different methods like random forests, boosted ...
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Blog aggregators

May 15, 2012 | Rob J Hyndman

A very useful way of keeping up with blogs in a particular area is to subscribe to a blog aggregator. These will syndicate posts from a large number of blogs and provide links back to the original sources. So you only need to subscribe once to get all the good ... [Read more...]

RStudio: New free IDE for R

February 28, 2011 | Stephen Turner

Just saw the announcement of the availability of Rstudio, a new (free & open source) integrated development environment for R that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Judging from the screenshots, it looks like Rstudio supports syntax highlighting for Sweave & easy PDF creation from Sweave code, which is something I haven't ... [Read more...]

A plea for consistent style!

December 22, 2010 | Nick Horton

As we get close to the end of the year, it's time to look back over the past year and think of resolutions for 2011 and beyond. One that's often on my mind relates to ways to structure my code to make it clearer to others (as well as to myself ...
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Using Google Reader

February 15, 2010 | Rob J Hyndman

Google Reader is a fantastic way to keep track of new papers that are appearing in many different journals, and also to follow some of the interesting research blogs (and blogs on other topics) that are out there. Google Reader checks websites for you and lets you know of any ...
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Workflow in R

September 17, 2009 | Rob J Hyndman

This came up recently on StackOverflow. One of the answers was particularly helpful and I plan to adopt this for my future work. In fact, it is close to what I already do, but is a little more structured. The idea is to break the code into four files, ... [Read more...]

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