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2007 Apr 26
3
Reduced Error Logistic Regression, and R?
This news item in a data mining newsletter makes various claims for a technique called "Reduced Error Logistic Regression": http://www.kdnuggets.com/news/2007/n08/12i.html In brief, are these (ambitious) claims justified and if so, has this technique been implemented in R (or does anyone have any plans to do so)? Tim C
2012 May 02
0
Data Mining Opportunities at Merck
.... Example project areas include manufacturing process improvement, portfolio planning, drug safety assessment, experimental design and analysis, biomarker discovery, and disease modeling. The work is fast paced, innovative, and requires the efforts of a top tier data scientist. See our job ad at KDNuggets for the details: http://www.kdnuggets.com/jobs/12/04-26-merck-research-associate-modeling.html If you have the right skill set and are looking for challenging data mining problems, we would love to talk to you. Apply today! ---- Amit Bahl, PhD Senior Research Associate Merck & Co. West Poin...
2017 Jul 10
0
Revolutions blog: June 2017 roundup
...ty maps in R, an alternative to choropleths: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/how-to-create-dot-density-maps-in-r.html A free 13-page e-book on using Power BI with R: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/power-bi-free-e-book.html Python edges out R for the first time in the 2017 KDnuggets poll of data science software usage: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/python-and-r-top-2017-kdnuggets-rankings.html The miner package encourages kids to learn to program in R while manipulating the world of Minecraft with R functions: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/teach-ki...
2011 Jul 23
0
Question about output from twitteR package
...re some replies in the sets that I'm obtaining, so I now in theory that these fields should not be blank for every message. Here is some code and output to make this clearer: library(twitteR) library(plyr) tweets = searchTwitter("#Rstats", n=200) tweets[[4]]$getText() [1] "RT @kdnuggets: Great post on using parallel processing with R and HHP $3M competition http://bit.ly/rcfztQ #rstats #hhp #datamining" tweets[[4]]$getScreenName() [1] "dichika" tweets[[4]]$getReplyToSN() character(0) tweets.df = ldply(tweets, function(t) t$toDataFrame()) head(tweets.df[,c(3,4,6,...
2017 Jan 15
3
¿Está R perdiendo la batalla?
Hace poco me puse al tema del big data y la verdad es que een este campo la decisión parece clara. Python ahora mismo está un paso por delante de R, aunque sparklyR puede igualar la contienda. Pero lo que me empieza a preocupar es que parece que si nos alejamos del Big Data, Python tb está ganando adeptos a pasos agigantados. ¿Está perdiendo R la batalla? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
2012 Jun 07
0
Revolutions Blog: May Roundup
...out R every weekday at the Revolutions blog: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com and every month I post a summary of articles from the previous month of particular interest to readers of r-help. In case you missed them, here are some articles related to R from the month of May: R tops the annual KDNuggets Data Mining Software poll for the first time: http://bit.ly/Kjr9mr R 2.15.1 is scheduled for June 22: http://bit.ly/KjraH2 . (Revolution R Enterprise, released on June 5, is based on 2.14.2: http://bit.ly/KjraH3 .) A tutorial uses R, Hadoop, and the RHadoop project to simulate and analyze a Faceb...
2011 Jun 03
0
Revolutions Blog: May Roundup
...://bit.ly/mggH0n Hadley Wickham is teaching an advanced R programming course: http://bit.ly/kj3ggD (and made his materials available online at http://bit.ly/jdQ4gg) The forthcoming KinectR package will let you capture body-tracking motion data from the Kinect sensor in R: http://bit.ly/itcgBL A KDnuggets poll suggests R is used in 1 in 4 implemented data analysis projects: http://bit.ly/jyl5JO The presentations from the R/Finance 2011 conference are available for download: http://bit.ly/ladtNY Bryan Lewis has created a video on how to to SVD decompositions on very large matrices in R, and applyin...
2011 Oct 06
0
Revolutions Blog: September Roundup
...: http://bit.ly/nYuSeD Insurance giant Lloyds of London uses R for performance management, exposure analysis, Monte-Carlo simulation, data visualization, reporting, and much more: http://bit.ly/oqlu4k A summary of discussions on LinkedIn comparing R and SAS for businesses: http://bit.ly/oWKdtP A KDnuggets poll finds R to be the most commonly-used software for data mining and analytics: http://bit.ly/r4aHqo Fortune magazine declares "Data Scientist" to be the "hot new gig in Tech": http://bit.ly/q7ZNCu Two presentations from Revolution Analytics on analyzing big data with R: htt...