Directed cyclical graphs (DAGs) are a powerful tool to understand and deal with causal inference. The book “Causal inference in statistics: a primer” is a useful reference to start, authored from Pearl, Glymour, and Jewell. Directed cyclical graphs (DAGs) are a powerful tool to understand and deal with causal inference. ...

Wow! I was listening a recent episode of the “Storytelling with data” podcast by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. It was an interview with Alberto Cairo who came up recommending an awesome tool for data visualization: iNZight! Interestingly iNZight is entirely based on R code and in its latest releases it speaks ...

In general, R loads all data into memory while SAS allocates memory dynamically to keep data on disk. This makes SAS a better solution for handling very large datasets. I often need to work with large SAS data files that are prepared in the information system of my department. However, ...

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is becoming the bigger player in the technology for documents search in the noSQL space and is actually experiencing a great development phase (6 ...

Today was my first day with Jupyter Lab . I knew about Jupyter Lab listening episode 44 of  DataFramed, the DataCamp‘s official podcast presented by Hugo Bowne-Anderson. In this episode, Project Jupiter was described in the context of interactive computing by Brian Granger, professor of physics and data science at Cal ...