I'm excited about Microsoft acquiring Revolution R. Microsoft has created business friendly tools for many decades and this is a great opportunity for them to bring the power of R to common users. Waiting to hear more from Microsoft... [Read more...]

A hero's farewellJacques Kallis is retiring today (Dec 30, 2013) from Test cricket at the age of 38. He will continue to play One Day International and T20 cricket.Hats off to a magnificent all rounder and a wonderful athlete. The way he carried h... [Read more...]

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Many of my software engineer friends ask me about learning data science. There are many articles on this subject from renowned data scientists (Dataspora, Gigaom, Quora, Hilary Mason). This post captures my journey (a software engin... [Read more...]

I was at Strata New York 2012 last month. Great conference! Thanks O'Reilly media for assembling the industry leaders and running it well.I understand it was too crowded for some of my out-of-town friends. Stepping out to the streets of mid-town Manhat... [Read more...]

I'm training some of my colleagues on Big'ish data analysis this week. Here's how I'm running the class. Would love your ideas to make it better. CLASS OBJECTIVES (LEARNING OUTCOMES)After completion of the course, you will be able to:Understand concept... [Read more...]

Today when I reminded a friend not to lose hope in Indian cricket (after recent whitewash in England and Australia), another friend commented, प्रसून जी , यह भारतीय क्रिकेट है ..यहाँ पर हर विक्टरी दुसरे दिन पुरानी हो जाती है ...You have to perform at your best ... After all they are getting unexpected money. They should deliver the goods as per citizens expectations...My reply to my ... [Read more...]

We are a global management consulting firm and are looking for data scientists in our team in New York/Washington DC and Gurgaon/Chennai (India). There are full-time and internship (New York) opportunities. There are multiple positions i... [Read more...]

Rahul Dravid is a fantastic cricketer, and a role model for younger generation - focused, hardworking and humble.Dravid recently became the 2nd highest scorer in Test Cricket (Sachin Tendulkar is the leading scorer). His contribution to India... [Read more...]

I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares - SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I'm working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Teraby... [Read more...]

There have been over 3300 cricketers who've played Test and One Day cricket. The youngest player was 14 years old Hasan Raza from Pakistan who played 5 ODIs and 2 Test matches at that age. The oldest player was 52 years old&nbs... [Read more...]

England take on Sri Lanka in a test series starting today. After watching Cricket world cup 2011 and witnessing India play in quarter final, semi final and the finale in stadiums all over India, I had little appetite for any of the IPL 2011 matche... [Read more...]

10. Can't crack that hard Sudoku problem?? Use R!9. Want to pick a skill that will give you an early adopter advantage?? Learn R! It is the leading open source statistical and data analysis programming language, and is heating up! 8. Need to ... [Read more...]

This is a follow-up to a previous question on VRP. I investigated R libraries and several other options to solve VRP and decided to build a custom desktop application using open source libraries from COIN-OR. Screenshots attached below.Leave a comment ... [Read more...]

We've introduced R in the organization!It is running along with the heavy weights of statistical analysis like SAS, SPSS, Matlab. Here's what we did and how we did it...HOW DID IT START?I started learning R last year and loved its simplicity and power.... [Read more...]

I have big data problems.I need to analyze 100s of millions of rows of data and tried hard for 2 weeks to see if I can use R for this. My assessment so far from the experiments...1) R is best for data that fits a computer's RAM (so get more ... [Read more...]

I'm introducing R to a few colleagues this week and want to share why learning a software like R is important... Here are a few articles that explain it well... Other reasons?Importance of data science- Couple years ago Google's Chief Economist Hal Var... [Read more...]

As we dig deeper into Stata or R debate, a few questions have come up.Question 1: One of the things Stata does well is the way it constructs new variables (see example below). How to do this in R? We can rewrite it as-is using for loops in R... [Read more...]

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I've refined the R code to pick the best fantasy soccer team by using more granular player performance data (available publicly). Here are the best overall, home and away teams. The constraints used are: 1) Number of goalkeepers = 12) Nu... [Read more...]