Tag: fun

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Laura Ellis. What is it? The gtrendsR package is an R package that can be used to programmatically gather and display Google trend information. Lately, I seem to be finding a lot of fun use cases for it, so I figured I would share the joy in my #FunDataFriday series! Why is it awesome? It’s an awesome package because it’s so simple! In three lines of code, you can pull Google trend data and visualize the results. Because you get the raw trend data, you can very easily extend your analysis to do almost anything. How to ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Maris McEdward. It's year 12 of Tableau Conference and we are always striving to improve attendee experience. We want the four days you spend at conference to be the most educational, valuable, inspiring, memorable, and fun four days of your entire year. To realize this goal year after year, we rely on a recipe of a large dose of feedback from you, a sprinkle of magic, heaps of top-notch sessions, and loads of ways to prepare for and access these brilliant breakouts, meetups, trainings, and more. One notable improvement for TC19 is that you have the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jenine Milum. Read an article: Key questions to kick off your data analytics projects Imagine that you’ve been asked to provide analytics for an important business initiative. Your data is well-sourced and readily available. You’re ready to start digging in – only to discover that the data you were given doesn’t match up well. It’s like getting driving directions based on kilometers when your car measures in miles. Before beginning your trip, you’ll need to make modifications to the directions so you can use them to get to your destination. Based on more than 30 years’ ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. salauno, a nonprofit focused on delivering visual health services, is using Oracle NetSuite to support its mission of providing high-quality, accessible eye care services to all of Mexico. With NetSuite, salauno has been able to focus time and resources on its mission by increasing supply chain efficiency and gaining a single view of the financial data of its entire organization. Founded in 2011, the company has performed more than 35,000 surgeries that have restored vision and provided low-cost and quality ophthalmologic care, including treatments like cataract surgery and diabetic retinopathy, to more than 300,000 patients ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Here’ a proposal for real ‘zero touch’, ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning from the researchers at Amazon.  If you have an environment as fast changing as e-retail and a huge number of models matching buyers and products you could achieve real cost savings and revenue increases by making the refresh cycle faster and more accurate with automation.  This capability likely will be coming soon to your favorite AML platform. Is there a future in which we can really ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning?  So far Automated Machine Learning (AML) is delivering on ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Business Science. ## {html_document} ## ## [1] nn Bikes | Specialized.comn2. Get the Raw Data Use Chrome DevTools to locate the product information. In our case, there is a JSON-like dictionary containing what we need.2.1 Locate Data with Chrome DevTools Find the data by using the hover tool. 2.2 Find Product Data Nodes Find the nodes where the product data lives. 2.3 Filter HTML to Isolate Nodes Copy and paste the class into the html_nodes() function from the rvest library. html %>% html_nodes(".product-list__item-wrapper") 2.4 Find the Attribute That Contains the Data Extract the attributes with the html_attr() ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bluecology blog. [This article was first published on Bluecology blog, 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. I’m loving the tmap package right now. Here’s why. And we’ll look athow to make a clean map of a study site as we go. We’ll use the data from our study of pollution and coral reefs in theSolmonIslands(repo is here). It runs smoothly with sf sf (‘Simple Features’) is the new ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Lukas Feick. Cross-validation is a widely used technique to assess the generalization performance of a machine learning model. Here at STATWORX, we often discuss performance metrics and how to incorporate them efficiently in our data science workflow. In this blog post, I will introduce the basics of cross-validation, provide guidelines to tweak its parameters, and illustrate how to build it from scratch in an efficient way. Model evaluation and cross-validation basics Cross-validation is a model evaluation technique. The central intuition behind model evaluation is to figure out if the trained model is generalizable, that is, whether the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Colin Charles; Percona Live Europe Amsterdam Day 1 was a bunch of fun, especially since I didn’t have to give a talk or anything since my tutorial was over on Day 0. At lunch, I realised that there are a lot more fringe events happening around Percona Live… and if you’ve seen how people do “tech weeks”, maybe this is what the event ends up being – a show, plus plenty of focused satellite events. FOSDEM in the open source world totally gets this, and best of all, also lists fringe events (see example from ) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Laura Ellis. I’m just going to admit it: I like the bachelor series! I won’t apologize for it. And sometimes I like to have a little fun by creating weird, nerd fabulous graphs which are about silly things. This is one of those times. In this blog post, I try to identify once and for all which was the most dramatic season of the bachelor series. I will accomplish this by analyzing the relative popularity of the bachelor franchise seasons as measured by their google search traffic. I will be using the gtrendsR package to gather Google trend information, ... Read More