Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A few weeks ago, I participated in a conference call with an Inquidia customer to discuss their new initiative in predictive analytics. We’ve already been helping them build a web-based analytic app for about 9 months. The partnership has been quite successful, and with analytics, once the […]
Stock Market Performance: A look at Russell indexes in R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I just completed the annual “maintenance” on my little stock market indexes returns “app”. I’ve supported a variant of the script for seven years, changing it pretty significantly year to year. The 2016 version was half python and half R, but this year I opted for R […]
Data Exploration in R – Part I
With the analytics work I’ve been involved with over the last 15 years, I estimate that 70% of the effort has been devoted to data access/integration/wrangling/curation, about 20% focused on data exploration, and the remaining 10% fitting algorithms/models. SQL and the open source platforms R and Python have been primary computation platforms, and now provide […]
Forecasting for prophet in R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I ran across an R forecasting package recently, prophet, I hadn’t seen before. This isn’t surprising given the flood of new libraries now emerging in the R ecosystem. Developed by two Facebook Data Scientists, what struck me most about prophet was the alignment of its sweet spot […]
BlueData Brings DevOps Agility to Data Science Operations with Spark, R, and Python
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “BlueData, provider of the leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, today announced the new winter release for the BlueData EPIC software platform. This new release delivers several new enhancements for data science operations, bringing DevOps agility and collaboration to data science teams as well as support for new […]
A Guide to Python and R: When to Use Which for What
by Angela Guess Roger Huang recently wrote in The Next Web, “At Springboard, we pair mentors with learners in data science. We often get questions about whether to use Python or R – and we’ve come to a conclusion thanks to insight from our community of mentors and learners. Data science is the sexiest job […]
Top Tools Used By Data Scientists
by Angela Guess Andrew Rosenblum recently wrote in Business2Community, “You’ve read about many of the kinds of big data projects that you can use to learn more about your data in our What Can a Data Scientist Do for You? article—now, we’re going to take a look at tools that data scientists use to mine […]