Tag: datasets

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Terry. Often data you’re working with has abstract column names, such as (x1, x2, x3…). Typically, the first step I take when renaming columns with r is opening my web browser.  For some reason no matter the amount of times doing this it’s just one of those things. (Hoping that writing about it will change that)The dataset cars is data from the 1920s on “Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars”. There is only 2 columns shown below. colnames(datasets::cars) [1] "speed" "dist" If we wanted to rename the column “dist” to make it easier to know what the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. New AWS Public Datasets Available from Audi, MIT, Allen Institute for Cell Science, Finnish Meteorological Institute, and others ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on kieranhealy.org. [This article was first published on R on kieranhealy.org, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. The General Social Survey, or GSS, is one of the cornerstones of American social science and one of the most-analyzed datasets in Sociology. It is routinely used in research, in teaching, and as a reference point in discussions about changes in American society since the early 1970s. It is also ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Aaron Burciaga. We live in a world driven by insights and decision making fueled by data and analytics. Information and technologies are so ubiquitous that no organization needs to be a digital titan (such as Amazon or Google) to compete in today’s world of business. Companies, large and small, are recognizing the need to utilize the full value of their enterprise data to obtain an essential competitive edge. Since business competition can be fierce, it is now, more than ever, necessary for a company to be able to adeptly appropriate data assets ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Francisco de Abreu e Lima. [This article was first published on poissonisfish, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. What can you tell from over half a million tweets reacting to the last season of Game of Thrones? [source]Like many other fans of the show, I had great expectations for the eighth and last season of Game of Thrones (GoT) that premiered on 14 April 2019. The much anticipated ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford and the largest university press in the world. In 2015, OUP launched the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative aiming to build lexical resources for 100 of the world’s languages and make them freely available online. A special focus is reserved to digitally under-represented languages (languages spoken by millions of native speakers, but whose lexical resources on the Internet may be of poor quality or unavailable). To date, OUP has launched 20 language websites, which include ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted recently. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News Tensorflow 2.0.0 has been released. This major update makes many changes to improve simplicity and ease of use. Tensorflow 1.x models will need to be upgraded for Tensorflow 2.0. Keras 2.3.0 has been released, the first release of the high-level deep learning framework to support Tensorflow 2.0. spaCy v2.2 has been ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Marcin Dubel. TL;DR Two methods for keeping your Shiny app organized while avoiding hardcoding. Softcoding Constants in a Shiny App They can be found everywhere. Text on buttons, urls to be linked, some numeric thresholds, a font to be used on ggplot, technical IDs to business names mapping, column names from datasets… We are all (at least try to be) good programmers and we do not want to hardcode those values in the code. You can imagine the inconvenience of searching for them throughout the code when modification is implemented. And you always miss something that slightly ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Consumer choice in regard to products is increasing and dynamic. Studies of consumer behavior have indicated that when presented with an abundance of choice a consumer’s decision-making can become overwhelmed and their participation in the market may decrease. Personalization can become the key to combating this problem of over-choice in the market. Personalization can become the key to combating this problem of over-choice in the market. Tweet This Several organizations are attempting to increase personalization when interacting with their customers. From tailored coupons to reward programs and even website designs, organizations are seeking new ways to engage ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Larry Clark. Kaggle breaks the Titanic passenger list into test-and-train comma separated values (csv) files. The training file includes a populated “Survived” column, whereas the testing file does not. Because Python scripts called by Prep can only consume and return a single dataframe, and we’ll need access to both datasets in our final prediction Python script, we will need to union the test-and-train data as our first step in Prep. To enable Python to tell the difference, we’ll add a “test” flag column. To separate the datasets within each of our Python scripts, we use the ... Read More