The Ubuntu Data Science Virtual Machine hosted on Azure is a great place to support an R workshop or laboratory session or R training. We illustrate here the simple steps to set up a Linux Data Science Virtual Machine. Workshop attendees will have their own laptop computers and can certainly install R themselves but with […]
I had the privilege to join a panel in 2014 that explored big data opportunities and challenges. Together, coordinated by Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou, we captured our thoughts into a paper published in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Volume 9, Number 4). It is an honour to learn that we have received a 2017 IEEE Outstanding […]
A 5-video series called Data Science for Beginners has been released by Microsoft. It introduces practical data science concepts to a non-technical audience… making data science accessible – keeping the language clear and simple as an entry point to understanding data science. http://aka.ms/data-science-for-beginners-1 http://aka.ms/data-science-for-beginners-2 http://aka.ms/data-science-for-beginners-3 http://aka.ms/data-science-for-beginners-4 http://aka.ms/data-science-for-beginners-5 Graham @ Microsoft
I saw a demo of a package for Rapid and Pretty Things in R earlier in the year when it was a work in progress. It is now live on GitHub (but not yet CRAN). It allows you to very quickly visualise data in R using a Shiny GUI to generate ggplot2 underneath. A nice […]
The Australian Government’s Data Analytics Centre of Excellence has released a new resource for employees of the Australian Government to freely interact and share experiences and knowledge. The resource is hosted on the AnalyticsSpace and uses the Askbot open source software which is modelled on StackOverflow. If you are an Australian Government employee working with […]
Welcome to the New Togaware Presence. Here you will find resources for the Data Scientist. The site is under development. More material is available from togaware.com