Tag: r language

Resampling Data in Hadoop with RHadoop

On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

A Data Scientist Investigates the Belgian Municipal Elections

Remark: This is the Dnglish version of my previous Dutch blog post.…

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Adventures in MOOC: Back to School

I am now in the homestretch of a Coursera MOOC that lasts…

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10 R Packages Every Data Scientist Should Know About

The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they'd known about…

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Personal Data Mining: Solving a Mystery

In a previous post I described the way that I captured a…

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Video: Data Mining with R

Our recent Introduction to R for Data Mining webinar was a record setter,…

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The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science

Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential…

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Visualizing Networks in R: Arc Diagrams and Hive Plots

Arc diagrams are an alternative way of representing two-dimensional graphs. Rather than…

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Votamatic Predicted the Presidential Election Results with R

While Nate Silver got a lot of the attention for correctly forecasting…

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NYT: SAS facing stiff competition

In a front-page article in Sunday's business section, the New York Times…

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