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Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 19 November, 2019 | Andre de Vries 5 Reasons Why You Should Join the Tableau #DataDev Hackathons The final Tableau 2019 hackathon which took place on the 12th of November at the Tableau Conference was the last session organised by the Tableau Developer team in 2019. There were a total of eight hackathons this year in six different cities. I participated in two of them – London and Las Vegas. I really enjoyed taking part, and in this blog post I want to highlight a few reasons why you should join these ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hadley Wickham. [This article was first published on RStudio 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 very excited to announce that Allison Horst is RStudio’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Allison is one of my favourite artists in the R community. Over the next year, she’s going to be working with us to create even more awesome artwork. Here’s a little about Allison in her own words. — Hadley Hello ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Two Hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacology, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods admmDensestSubmatrix v0.1.0: Implements a method to identify the densest sub-matrix in a given or sampled binary matrix ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. AWS Public Sector Blog Team Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the AWS Public Sector blog team writes for the government, education, and nonprofit sector around the globe. Learn more about AWS for the public sector by visiting our website (https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/), or following us on Twitter (@AWS_gov, @AWS_edu, and @AWSnonprofits) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: ShiSh Shridhar. According to the UN, we will see the world's urban populations grow from today's 55 percent to 68 percent by 2050. With almost a billion people on the path to be urban dwellers, most cities are still unfriendly to people with disabilities. As more people flock to cities, making our cities smarter and more inclusive will become increasingly important. The concept of smart cities is all about developing strategies that leverage data and technology to enhance urban life. The IoT plays a central role in collecting sensor data and then using the insights ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Business Science. [This article was first published on business-science.io, 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. This article comes from Diego Usai, a student in Business Science University. Diego has completed both 101 (Data Science Foundations) and 201 (Advanced Machine Learning & Business Consulting) courses. Diego shows off his progress in this Customer Churn Tutorial using Machine Learning with parsnip. Diego originally posted the article on his personal website, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  Parametric and Non Parametric Bootstrap, Traditional Parametric - Comparison in One Picture Omitted Variables in Linear Regressions Data science for managers: Programming languages Dynamics 365 vs. SAP Business One: All You Need to Know Alternatives to the Gradient Descent Algorithm A Comprehensive Guide to Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithms How to Detect Objects with Deep ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: mrtnj. Since version 1.0.0, released in September, the tidyr package has a new replacement for the gather/spread pair of functions, called pivot_longer/pivot_wider. (See the blog post about the release. It can do a lot of cool things.) Just what we needed, another pair of names for melt/cast, right? Yes, I feel like this might just be what we need! My journey started with reshape2, and after a bit of confusion, I internalised the logic of melt/cast. Look at this beauty: library(reshape2) fake_data This turns a data frame that looks like this … id variable1 variable2 1 1 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , 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. A new minor release 0.3.3.7.0 of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN today (and just went to Debian too) bringing support for Eigen 3.3.7 to R. This release comes almost a year after the previous minor release 0.3.3.5.0. Besides the upgrade to the new upstream version, it brings a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. [This article was first published on R – Win-Vector 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. Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition author Dr. Nina Zumel, with a fresh author’s copy of her book! Related If you got this far, why not subscribe for updates from the site? Choose your flavor: e-mail, twitter, RSS, or facebook ... Read More