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This post will review the book: Scala for Data Science, Bugnion, Packt, 2016. Disclaimer: This book review has not been solicited by the publisher (or anyone else) in any way. I purchased the review copy of this book myself. I have not received any benefit from the writing of this review. Introduction On this blog … Continue reading Scala for Data Science [book review]
Guest post by Matt Sundquist of plot.ly. Plotly is a social graphing and analytics platform. Plotly’s R library lets you make and share publication-quality graphs online. Your work belongs to you, you control privacy and sharing, and public use is free (like GitHub). We are in beta, and would love your feedback, thoughts, and advice. […]
There are (at least) two big challenges official statistics will be faced with in the next few years and which will possibly …Continue reading »
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...
The Bo Sundgren Award of the International Marketing and Output Database Conference IMAODBC 2012 in Pruhonice near Prag goes to …Continue reading »
The other day Critical Juncture put up an API for the Federal Register. I thought it would be great if there was a package that could use this API to download data directly into R (much like the excellent WDI package). This would make it easier to anal...
An example of an API access to statistical data The U.S. Census Bureau now offers some of its public data in machine-readable format. This is done via an Application Programming Interface (“API”). Based on this API an App has been developed helping to query data from the Cenus 2010: No data without legal clarification. The …Read More
Introduction This post follows on from the previous post on Gibbs sampling in various languages. In that post a simple Gibbs sampler was implemented in various languages, and speeds were compared. It was seen that R is very slow for iterative simulation algorithms characteristic of MCMC methods such as the Gibbs sampler. Statically typed languages [...]
Since I got the chance to access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API (more details here and here), I decided to create a simple wrapper (just 4 basic functions until now) to be capable to play with the Google Prediction API ...
