This week marked the start of Coursera's highly popular Machine Learning course, taught by Coursera founder and one of Time's 2013 100 most influential people, Andrew Ng. I'm super excited to be taking this course after reading about all the cool pres...
An we're back! Today I'm going to briefly cover Graphics in R to the extent that it's mentioned in the book. Graphics are discussed in Chapter 12 of the book. The author rightly points out that R has several libraries with robust graphics mechanisms ab...
Accessing APIs is pretty sweet. Even though I've only begun to scratch the surface of some popular APIs, I wanted to share my initial findings with you. I figured an interesting question is related to social media. Specifically Twitter and Facebook. My...
Thanks to Codeacademy's API primer, I'm able to access a bunch of cool information related to what the U.S. Congress is up to. For example, some of the more interesting of the top 20 most popular phrases said by members of New York's Congress are (rank...
