Resampling Data in Hadoop with RHadoop
On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide…
A Data Scientist Investigates the Belgian Municipal Elections
Remark: This is the Dnglish version of my previous Dutch blog post.…
Adventures in MOOC: Back to School
I am now in the homestretch of a Coursera MOOC that lasts…
10 R Packages Every Data Scientist Should Know About
The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they'd known about…
Personal Data Mining: Solving a Mystery
In a previous post I described the way that I captured a…
Video: Data Mining with R
Our recent Introduction to R for Data Mining webinar was a record setter,…
The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science
Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential…
Visualizing Networks in R: Arc Diagrams and Hive Plots
Arc diagrams are an alternative way of representing two-dimensional graphs. Rather than…
Votamatic Predicted the Presidential Election Results with R
While Nate Silver got a lot of the attention for correctly forecasting…
NYT: SAS facing stiff competition
In a front-page article in Sunday's business section, the New York Times…