Recently I whined/whinged or generally complained about a few sharp edges in some powerful R systems. In each case I was treated very politely, listened to, and actually got fixes back in a very short timeframe from volunteers. That is really great and probably one of the many reasons R is a great ecosystem. Please … Continue reading The R community is awesome (and fast)
With our recent publication of “Can you nest parallel operations in R?” we now have a nice series of “how to speed up statistical computations in R” that moves from application, to larger/cloud application, and then to details. For your convenience here they are in order: A gentle introduction to parallel computing in R Running … Continue reading The Win-Vector parallel computing in R series
In our last article on the algebra of classifier measures we encouraged readers to work through Nina Zumel’s original “Statistics to English Translation” series. This series has become slightly harder to find as we have use the original category designation “statistics to English translation” for additional work. To make things easier here are links to … Continue reading On accuracy
Win-Vector LLC, Nina Zumel and I are pleased to announce that ‘vtreat’ version 0.5.26 has been released on CRAN. ‘vtreat’ is a data.frame processor/conditioner that prepares real-world data for predictive modeling in a statistically sound manner. (from the package documentation) ‘vtreat’ is an R package that incorporates a number of transforms and simulated out of … Continue reading vtreat version 0.5.26 released on CRAN
Short form: Win-Vector LLC’s Dr. Nina Zumel has a three part series on Principal Components Regression that we think is well worth your time. Part 1: the proper preparation of data (including scaling) and use of principal components analysis (particularly for supervised learning or regression). Part 2: the introduction of y-aware scaling to direct the … Continue reading Why you should read Nina Zumel’s 3 part series on principal components…
Our publisher Manning Publications is celebrating the release of a new data science in Python title Introducing Data Science by offering it and other Manning titles at half off until Wednesday, May 18. As part of the promotion you can also use the supplied discount code mlcielenlt for half off some R titles including R … Continue reading For a short time: Half Off Some Manning Data Science Books
Just a “heads-up.” I’ve been editing a two-part three-part series Nina Zumel is writing on some of the pitfalls of improperly applied principal components analysis/regression and how to avoid them (we are using the plural spelling as used in following Everitt The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics). The series is looking absolutely fantastic and I think … Continue reading Coming up: principal components analysis
Nina Zumel has donated some time to greatly improve the vtreat R package documentation (now available as pre-rendered HTML here). vtreat is an R data.frame processor/conditioner package that helps prepare real-world data for predictive modeling in a statistically sound manner. Even with modern machine learning techniques (random forests, support vector machines, neural nets, gradient boosted … Continue reading Improved vtreat documentation
We are pleased to announce our book Practical Data Science with R (Nina Zumel, John Mount, Manning 2014) is part of Manning’s “Deal of the Day” of April 9th 2016. This one day only offer gets you half off for physical book (with free e-copy) or paid e-copy (e-copy simultaneous pdf + ePub + kindle, … Continue reading Half off Win-Vector data science books and video training!
Win-Vector LLC will be presenting on statistically validating models using R and data science at: Strata+Hadoop World “R Day” Tutorial 9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, March 29 2016, San Jose, California. ODSC San Francisco Meetup, 6:30pm-9:00pm Thursday, March 31, 2016, San Francisco, California. We will share code and examples. Registration required (and Strata is a paid conference). Please … Continue reading Upcoming Win-Vector LLC appearances
