R oder Python
Data Science Einsteiger stehen immer wieder vor der gleichen Frage: Welche Programmiersprache sollte man als Erstes lernen? Die Wahl fällt meistens auf eine der beiden großen Anbieter, R oder Python....continue reading.
Category: Data Science
Summer 2019 workshops: clinical audit stats, and a data science primer for managers
I am doing two BayesCamp workshops in central London this summer: Statistical Analysis for Clinical Audit, 21 June [bookings] Data … Morecontinue reading.
Comparing Point-and-Click Front Ends for R
Now that I’ve completed seven detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, let’s try to compare them. It’s easy enough to count their features and plot them, so...continue reading.
A Comparative Review of the JASP Statistical Software
JASP is a free and open source statistics package that targets beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. This article is one of a series of reviews which aim...continue reading.
Data Science Software Used in Journals: Stat Packages Declining (including R), AI/ML Software Growing
In my neverending quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, it’s time to update the section on Scholarly Articles. The rapid growth of R could not go on...continue reading.
Data Science Software Reviews: Forrester vs. Gartner
In my previous post, I discussed Gartner’s reviews of data science software companies. In this post, I show Forrester’s coverage and discuss how radically different it is. As usual, this...continue reading.
How to become a Mango
At Mango, we talk a lot about going on a ‘data-driven journey’ with your business. We’re passionate about data and getting the best use out of it. But for now, instead of...continue reading.
You need to get out more
If you want to pursue a career analysing data about real-world things (and I’m not sure what other data there … Morecontinue reading.
ETL – Building a Data Pipeline With Python – Introduction – Part 1 of N
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is not always the favorite part of a data scientist’s job but it’s an absolute necessity in the real world. If you don’t understand this process,...continue reading.
Gartner’s 2019 Take on Data Science Software
I’ve just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner’s 2019 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the...continue reading.
Fixing the most common problem with Plotly histograms
In today’s blog post, we show you how to improve the interactivity of Plotly histograms with automatically new rebinning. Der Beitrag Fixing the most common problem with Plotly histograms erschien...continue reading.
Running your R script in Docker
This blogpost explains step by step how you can build your own Docker Image and include R scripts. With this you can have scripts running at every image’s beginning. Der...continue reading.
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Statistics Can Be Romantic Too!
It’s Valentine’s day, making this the most romantic time of the year. But actually, already 2018 was a year full of love here at STATWORX: many of my STATWORX colleagues...continue reading.
How to Create Interactive Climate Model Maps in Python
“El Niño is likely this winter,” the forecaster said. “El Niño typically brings above normal winter cloudiness and rainfall across the southern U.S. and milder conditions to Canada…” You may...continue reading.
How to Create Interactive Climate Model Maps in Python
“El Niño is likely this winter,” the forecaster said. “El Niño typically brings above normal winter cloudiness and rainfall across the southern U.S. and milder conditions to Canada…” You may...continue reading.
Top reasons to send your team to EARL
It’s easy to get stuck in the day-to-day at the office and there’s never time to upskill or even think about career development. However, to really grow and develop your...continue reading.
Plotly – An interactive Charting library
In this blog we will explore the plotly library for python and R. We show how plotly is structured and use the LA Metro Bike dataset as an example to...continue reading.
Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning: Bagging & Subagging
In this blog we will explore the Bagging algorithm and a computational more efficient variant thereof, Subagging. With minor modifications these algorithms are also known as Random Forest and are...continue reading.
7 Tips to help the C-Suite drive effective, data-driven digital transformation
Digital transformation is, almost to the exclusion of all others, the buzzword of the last few years in technology. To become “digitally transformed”, almost all companies are investing in some...continue reading.
Updated Review: jamovi User Interface to R
Last February I reviewed the jamovi menu-based front end to R. I’ve reviewed five more user interfaces since then, and have developed a more comprehensive template to make it easier...continue reading.
