Here’s a quite succinct yet comprehensive summary of machine learning algorithms produced by Jason Brownlee of Machine Learning Mastery. It includes a visual of the algorithms — though it does have a bit of a flavour of phishing for email addresses which is needed to download the graphic. The one below can be found without […]
Monthly archives for October, 2015
Tools of Choice for Data Science
A summary of the annual survey of tools and attitudes around data science conducted by Karl Rexer was released at Predictive Analytics World in Boston recently. The full report is expected to be available on RexerAnalytics.com in the next couple of months. For primary tool usage: #1 — 36.2% — R #2 — 7.0% […]
R + Shiny + Leaflet + bicycle acciden...
This is a nice example of the power of multiple APIs working together to deliver a solution. The app uses R’s Shiny to control a map built using the open source JavaScript Leaflet based on public data displaying map tiles generated by Stamen Design on Open Street Map data. Thanks to colleague and R guru […]
Rattle and WebFOCUS RStat from Inform...
I’ve had a few enquiries lately on the relationship between Rattle and the WebFOCUS predictive analytics component called RStat from Information Builders (WebFOCUS is their widely used Business Intelligence suite). I even had an approach recently from an Australian company offering to provide a demonstration of RStat to see if it might be something we […]