Often I get questions from readers who are constantly caught in the tool conundrum Should I choose R or Python to start learning data science? If you are newly entering the world of data science and not have tried either of these languages it is easy to land into this ...

Developer: Akash Tandon Mentors: Joshua Ulrich, Toby Dylan Hocking Official Project Link: Rperform: performance analysis of R package code This project meant to deal primarily with development of Rperform’s functionalities to allow developers to obtain potential performance impacts of a pull request (PR) without having to merge, extension of ...

Residuals. Now there’s something to get you out of bed in the morning! OK, maybe residuals aren’t the sexiest topic in the world. Still, they’re an essential element and means for identifying potential problems of any statistical model. For example, the residuals from a linear regression model ...

Or a less clickbaity title: Model based optimization of machine learning models with mlr and mlrMBO. I recently participated in the #TEFDataChallenge a datathon organized by Wayra. The first price was a drone for every team member, which is a pretty ...

An R Tutorial by D. M. Wiig In previous tutorials I have discussed the basics of creating a ternary plot using the ggtern package using a simple hypothetical data frame containing five values. In a subsequent tutorial I discussed the application by creating a ternary graph using election results from ...

WASP and other flow and water quality models ask users to input multiplier and exponent values relating velocity and depth to discharge. These relationships take the form of V=aQ^b and depth=cQ^d, where the values a, b, c, and d describe the curve that approximates paired points ...

The MOOC "Take lineaR decisions" will begin on September 19th 2016, covering some models of decision making mainly based on computational linear algebra (linear systems and eigenvalues/vectors). The course, delivered by prof. Paolo Pellizzari, can be used to acquire practical skills in the use of the open software R in ...

Part 1 and Part 2 of this series dealt with setting up AWS, loading data into S3, deploying a Spark cluster and using it to access our data. In this part we will deploy R and R Studio Server to … Continue reading →