Makeovermonday is a weekly social data project with the intention to rework some random chosen chart. A new challenge is posted every week on the data set page. Although it is more focused to the Tableau community, I took the challenge to rework the chart with R. This is the ... [Read more...]

In most cases, you’ll write a R script that pulls data, manipulates it and dumps the output to a database or you’ll create a beautiful report in rmarkdown. Suppose you want to run this script or report every day, week, day, etc. Well, there are a few possibilities ... [Read more...]

Refining the credit model(s) To continue with the creditworthiness case, I want to explore this case a little bit more by adding more meta algorithms such as boosting, winnowing, cross validation etc. Additionally, I’ll use randomforest as classifier algorithm. I’m still using the same german credit data ... [Read more...]

While looking for a interesting Machine Learning exercise I decided to go along with credit scoring exercise. I want to know what kind of information influences the decision for giving someone credit (or not). Typically, a bank would ask you to fill in some kind of assesment form with question ... [Read more...]