A kind reader recently shared the following comment on the Practical Data Science with R 2nd Edition live-site. Thanks for the chapter on data frames and data.tables. It has helped me overcome an obstacle freeing me from a lot of warnings telling me my data table was not a real […]
Data science is often a case of brining the tools to the problems and data, instead of insisting on bringing the problems and data to the tools. To support cross-language data science we have been working on cross-language tools, documentation, and training.
Deal of the Day May 10: Half off Practical Data Science with R, Second Edition. Use code dotd051020au at https://bit.ly/2xLRPCk
Nina Zumel and John Mount will be speaking on advanced data preparation for supervised machine learning at the Why R? Webinar Thursday, May 7, 2020. This is a 8pm in a GMT+2 timezone, which for us is 11AM Pacific Time. Hope to see you there!
We have a discount on Manning Books, including our own Practical Data Science with R 2nd Edition!
wrapr 2.0.0 is now up on CRAN. This means the := variant of unpack[] is now easy to install. Please give it a try!
I would like to re-share vtreat (R version, Python version) a data preparation documentation for machine learning tasks. vtreat is a system for preparing messy real world data for predictive modeling tasks (classification, regression, and so on). In particular it is very good at re-coding high-cardinality string-valued (or categorical) variables […]
For all our remote learners, we are sharing a free coupon code for our R video course Introduction to Data Science. The code is ITDS2020, and can be used at this URL https://www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-data-science/?couponCode=ITDS2020 . Please check it out and share it!
Here is a small quote from Practical Data Science with R Chapter 1. It is often too much to ask for the data scientist to become a domain expert. However, in all cases the data scientist must develop strong domain empathy to help define and solve the right problems. Interested? […]
A big thank you to Dmytro Perepolkin for sharing a “Keep Calm and Use vtreat” poster! Also, we have translated the Python vtreat steps from our recent “Cross-Methods are a Leak/Variance Trade-Off” article into R vtreat steps here. This R-port demonstrates the new to R fit/prepare notation! We want vtreat […]