October 2017

Increasing Airline Customer Satisfaction

October 29, 2017 | Kathryn Bryant

Motivation The sheer size of the airline industry provides a reason to care about it: it affects not only millions of people directly (flyers, pilots, engineers, […] The post Increasing Airline Customer Satisfaction appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

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Word Vectors with tidy data principles

October 29, 2017 | Rstats on Julia Silge

Last week I saw Chris Moody’s post on the Stitch Fix blog about calculating word vectors from a corpus of text using word counts and matrix factorization, and I was so excited! This blog post illustrates how to implement that approach to find word vector representations in R using ...

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Deep learning and the German Data Science Job Market

October 29, 2017 | Florian Teschner

Almost 2 years ago, I wrote a short post on the German data science market by analysing open position on the key job platforms; Stepstone, Monster and Indeed. Recently I received requests to update the post with fresh data. So here it comes. To add a ... [Read more...]

Data Science Live Book (open source) ~ new big release! 200-pages

October 29, 2017 | Pablo Casas

New big release (200-pages) in the Data Science Live Book -open source- Download available in PDF, eBook and Kindle versions!

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Data Science Live Book (open source) ~ new big release! 200-pages

October 29, 2017 | Pabloc

New big release (200-pages) in the Data Science Live Book -open source- Download available in PDF, eBook and Kindle versions! [Read more...]

2017-04 Speeding up gridSVG

October 29, 2017 | pmur002

This report describes changes in version 1.6-0 of the ‘gridSVG’ package for R. The most important result of these changes is that ‘gridSVG’ is now much faster at generating SVG files (in situations where it used to be painfully slow). Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]

Big Data Transforms

October 29, 2017 | John Mount

As part of our consulting practice Win-Vector LLC has been helping a few clients stand-up advanced analytics and machine learning stacks using R and substantial data stores (such as relational database variants such as PostgreSQL or big data systems such as Spark). Often we come to a point where we ...

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Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 4

October 29, 2017 | Tinniam V Ganesh

This is the 4th installment of my ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python’ series. In this part I discuss classification with Support Vector Machines (SVMs), using both a Linear and a Radial basis kernel, and Decision Trees. Further, a closer look is taken at some of the metrics associated ...

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Capturing the Brexit vote in data

October 29, 2017 | Thiemo Fetzer

In my recent research I have worked on understanding the key correlates of Brexit. This paper is joint work with my co-authors Sascha Becker and Dennis Novy and has now been published in Economic Policy. After having gone through the peer-review process, I am very happy to share the data ... [Read more...]

October 2017 Auto Sales Predictions

October 28, 2017 | Sweiss' Blog

Below are predictions for 10-2017 autosales for each auto brand. I modeled monthley car sales by nameplate (eg Camry, Civic, etc), predicted one step ahead forecast and summed by manufacture. The model is a state-space model with trend and seasonality ... [Read more...]

Highlight the Pipe. Pkgdown

October 28, 2017 | QuestionFlow

Practical advices about customizing code highlighting on web pages created with pkgdown. Prologue It felt really nice to achieve custom code highlighting on this site with highlight.js (see this post). After that, I found myself working with pkgdown, one of many great Hadley’s packages. It is “designed to ... [Read more...]

Moving to Blogdown

October 28, 2017 | Data Imaginist

As I announced last friday on Twitter I have moved Data Imaginist to Blogdown from Jekyll. This is going to be a short post about why I did it. There’s not going to be much tutorial about this; the migration is as painless as can be expected and besides, ...

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It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

October 28, 2017 | HighlandR

A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics - Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining, specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking a... [Read more...]

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

October 28, 2017 | HighlandR

A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics - Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining,specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking ab... [Read more...]

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

October 28, 2017 | HighlandR

A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics - Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining,specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking ab... [Read more...]

R Meetup with Hadley Wickham

October 28, 2017 | Szilard Pafka

In our next meetup, we’ll have Hadley (I think no introduction needed). Packages made easy... [Read more...]

groupdata2 v1.0.0 release

October 28, 2017 | Ludvig Olsen

After having spent a lot of time developing groupdata2 in the spring, adding a lot of new features, I’ve finally found the time to submit it to CRAN. For those… Read More → The post groupdata2 v1.0.0 release was first shown [Read more...]

Demo Week: Time Series Machine Learning with h2o and timetk

October 27, 2017 | business-science.io - Articles

We’re at the final day of Business Science Demo Week. Today we are demo-ing the h2o package for machine learning on time series data. What’s demo week? Every day this week we are demoing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) and h2... [Read more...]

Spring Budget 2017: Circle Visualisation

October 27, 2017 | Rob Grant

It’s time to branch out into a new area of data visualisation: proportion area plots. These plots use area to show proportion between different related values. A common type of proportional area plots are tree maps. We are going to be using the same principle but with circles. A ...

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Stan Roundup, 27 October 2017

October 27, 2017 | Bob Carpenter

I missed two weeks and haven’t had time to create a dedicated blog for Stan yet, so we’re still here. This is only the update for this week. From now on, I’m going to try to concentrate on things that are done, not just in progress so ... [Read more...]

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October 2017

Increasing Airline Customer Satisfaction

Word Vectors with tidy data principles

Deep learning and the German Data Science Job Market

Data Science Live Book (open source) ~ new big release! 200-pages

Data Science Live Book (open source) ~ new big release! 200-pages

2017-04 Speeding up gridSVG

Big Data Transforms

Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 4

Capturing the Brexit vote in data

October 2017 Auto Sales Predictions

Highlight the Pipe. Pkgdown

Moving to Blogdown

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..

R Meetup with Hadley Wickham

groupdata2 v1.0.0 release

Demo Week: Time Series Machine Learning with h2o and timetk

Spring Budget 2017: Circle Visualisation

Stan Roundup, 27 October 2017

October 2017

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