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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa In this post we complete our series on analysing the HIV pandemic in Africa. Previously we covered the bigger picture of HIV infection in Africa, and a pipeline for drug resistance testing of samples in the lab. Then, in part 3 we saw that sometimes the same patient’s genotype must ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Capri Granville. A free online version of the second edition of the book based on Stat 110, Introduction to Probability by Joe Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang, is now available here. Print copies are available via CRC Press, Amazon, and elsewhere.  Stat110x is also available as an free edX course, here.  The edX course focuses on animations, interactive features, readings, and problem-solving, and is complementary to the Stat 110 lecture videos on YouTube, which are available here. The Stat110x animations are available within the course and here. For more information, visit Stat110 at Harvard. A 10-page cheat sheet summarizing the content, is ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: melliferrari. Learn to experiment with R to make analyses and figures more reproducible If you’re in the UK and not too far from York you might be interested in a Royal Society of Biology course which forms part of the Industry Skills Certificate. More details at this link Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R 24 June 2019 from 10:00 until 16:00 The course is aimed at researchers at all stages of their careers interested in experimenting with R to make their analyses and figures more reproducible. No previous coding experience is assumed and you can work on your own ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Notebooks are increasingly becoming the standard tool for interactively developing big data applications. It’s easy to see why. Their flexible architecture allows you to experiment with data in multiple languages, test code interactively, and visualize large datasets. To help scientists and developers easily access notebook tools, we launched Amazon EMR Notebooks, a managed notebook environment that is based on the popular open-source Jupyter notebook application. EMR Notebooks support Spark Magic kernels, which allows you to submit jobs remotely on your EMR cluster using languages like PySpark, Spark SQL, Spark R, and Scala. The kernels submit ... 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.   Announcements Machine learning is an extremely useful technology that, when applied correctly, can be used to answer big questions and solve business-critical challenges for large enterprises. But, what exactly is machine learning? And, more importantly, how does it help solve Big Data challenges experienced by enterprise brands? Download this ebook to find out! Performance-based funding has been adopted ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Robert. On 25 November 2019, BayesCamp will be hosting a one-day course called Get up and running with Bayesian data analysis, in central London. I am delighted that this will be taught by Rasmus Bååth from Lund University and King Entertainment. That makes him the statistician behind Candy Crush. His YouTube videos introducing Bayes are very popular, and I’ve been recommending them to people for ages. In the morning, he’ll introduce you to Bayesian analysis, remove the mystery and show you how it can be helpful to you in many ways. Then, in the afternoon, he’ll get ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. For the first PGDay organized in Belgium by the PgBE PostgreSQL Users Group Belgium, this event regrouped around 40 PostgreSQL fans on 17 May 2019 in Leuven. It was for me a really nice day and I’d like to share it with you. This day was all about PostgreSQL and a big opportunity to meet with other people interested in PostgreSQL in Belgium. The event was suitable for everybody, from first-time users, students, to experts and from clerks to decision-makers. With not less than 10 talks, 2 parallel tracks in the afternoon, the list of speakers was ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jose Alfredo Mutis. Para quienes trabajamos en el mundo de la analítica, nos resulta cada vez más sencillo explicar cuál es el impacto social de nuestro trabajo y por qué el desarrollo de esta ciencia -que tomamos profesionalmente- es un tema que nos apasiona tanto. Nosotros sabemos que la analítica es capaz de cambiar el mundo.  En el pasado SAS Global Forum, realizado hace apenas unos días en Dallas, se presentaron diversas historias que demuestran que la analítica no solo impacta y potencia el crecimiento de los negocios, sino que también es un factor transformador de sociedades al ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Daniela Blanco, Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NYU Tandon and founder of her own business, Sunthetics, won the title of Global Champion and $75,000 worth of AWS Promotional Credits at the 2019 Entrepeneurs’ Organization (EO) Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA).Fifty-two student entrepreneurs from across the globe competed at the 2019 EO GSEA. Participants were college or university students and entrepreneurs that are either the owner, founder, or primary shareholder of a business. Each participant competed locally with their peers with the hopes of representing their ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jakob Gepp. On my daily commute to STATWORX, I pass the gas station down the street twice a day. Even though I’m riding a bike, I’m still looking at the gas prices. Lately, after a few weeks of observation, I thought to have found some patterns. My statistic sensors were tickling! Of course, I am not the first one to notice patterns. Nearly everyone has their own theory about when to buy cheap gas! Some of the more famous examples are: Everything was better in the old days It’s cheaper in the evening Gas stations at motorways ... Read More