SatRday LA – R Conference Announcement
Come and have fun with local useRs at SatRday LA on April 6, 2019. This…
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Big RAM is eating big data – Size of datasets used for analytics
With so much hype about “big data” and the industry pushing for “big data” analytical…
R and Impala: it’s better to KISS than using Java
One of the best things I like in working at CARD.com is that I am…
LA City College Forms Data Science Team with City of LA
In a partnership with the City of Los Angeles government, LA City College (LACC) has…
Benchmarking Random Forest Implementations
I currently have the need for machine learning tools that can deal with observations of…
ASA DataFest 2015 at UCLA
What is DataFest? DataFest is a team competition, where a team of up to 5…
Hadley Wickham’s dplyr tutorial at useR! 2014, Part 2
Part 2 of the dplyr tutorial is now available! Hadley will be covering Grouped Mutate/Filter, Joins,…
OpenIntro.org on why introductory textbooks are so expensive
David Diez works on the OpenIntro team, which develops open-source textbooks, statistical software labs, and…
Hadley Wickham’s dplyr tutorial at useR! 2014, Part 1
Hadley Wickham (perhaps you’ve heard of his work) presented a 2 hour workshop on dplyr…
Paying for statistics grad school (AKA the $$)
(This is my third post on statistics graduate school. You can read the first, on…