Hangul/Korean edition of Practical Data Science with R!
Excited to see our new Hangul/Korean edition of “Practical Data Science with R” by Nina Zumel, John Mount, translated by Daekyoung Lim.
Using PostgreSQL in R: A quick how-to
The combination of R plus SQL offers an attractive way to work with what we call medium-scale data: data that’s perhaps too large to gracefully work with in its entirety within your favorite desktop analysis tool (whether that be R or Excel), but too small to justify the overhead of […]
Practical Data Science with R examples
One of the big points of Practical Data Science with R is to supply a large number of fully worked examples. Our intent has always been for readers to read the book, and if they wanted to follow up on a data set or technique to find the matching worked […]
Thank you Joseph Rickert!
A bit of text we are proud to steal from our good friend Joseph Rickert: Then, for some very readable background material on SVMs I recommend section 13.4 of Applied Predictive Modeling and sections 9.3 and 9.4 of Practical Data Science with R by Nina Zumel and John Mount. You […]
Vtreat: designing a package for variable treatment
When you apply machine learning algorithms on a regular basis, on a wide variety of data sets, you find that certain data issues come up again and again: Missing values (NA or blanks) Problematic numerical values (Inf, NaN, sentinel values like 999999999 or -1) Valid categorical levels that don’t appear […]
A bit of the agenda of Practical Data Science with R
The goal of Zumel/Mount: Practical Data Science with R is to teach, through guided practice, the skills of a data scientist. We define a data scientist as the person who organizes client input, data, infrastructure, statistics, mathematics and machine learning to deploy useful predictive models into production. Our plan to […]
Practical Data Science with R: Release date announced
It took a little longer than we’d hoped, but we did it! Practical Data Science with R will be released on April 2nd (physical version). The eBook version will follow soon after, on April 15th. You can preorder the pBook now on the Manning book page. The physical version comes […]
One day discount on Practical Data Science with R
Please forward and share this discount offer for our upcoming book. Manning Deal of the Day February 22: Half off Practical Data Science with R. Use code dotd022214au at http://www.manning.com/zumel/.
Practical Data Science with R, deal of the day Aug 1 2013
Deal of the Day August 1: Half off my book Practical Data Science with R. Use code dotd0801au at http://www.manning.com/zumel/
What is “Practical Data Science with R”?
A bit about our upcoming book “Practical Data Science with R”. Nina and I share our current draft of the front matter from the book, which is a description which will help you decide if this is the book for you (we hope that it is). Or this could be […]