My R-using family have a very old house with uneven heating and cooling. We are going to replace the HVAC system soon and rather than just install a new system I wanted to make data-driven decisions about the replacement. Since I have a couple of ecobee Thermostats which have remote sensors, I figured there must… Continue reading
The inaugural Government & Public Sector R Conference took place virtually from December 2nd to December 4th. With over 240 attendees, 26 speakers, three panelists and a rum masterclass class leader, the R|Gov conference was a place where data scientists could gather remotely to explore, share, and inspire ideas. We had so many amazing speakers,… Continue reading
My team at Lander Analytics has been putting together conferences for six years, and they’ve always had the same fun format, which the community has really enjoyed. There’s the NYR conference for New Yorkers and those who want to fly, drive or train to join the New York community, and there’s DCR, which gathers the… Continue reading
The costs involved with a health insurance plan can be confusing so I perform an analysis of different options to find which plan is most cost effective My wife and I recently brought a new R programmer into our family so we had to update our health insurance. Becky is a researcher in neuroscience and… Continue reading
After four sold-out years in New York City, the R Conference made its debut in Washington DC to a sold-out crowd of data scientists at the Ronald Reagan Building on November 8th & 9th. Our speakers shared presentations on a variety of R-related topics. A big thank you to our speakers Max Kuhn, Emily Robinson,… Continue reading
The 2018 New York R Conference was the biggest and best yet. This is both in terms of the crowd size and content. The speakers included some of the R community’s best such as Hadley Wickham, David Robinson, Jennifer Hill, Max Kuhn, Andreas Mueller (ok, a little Python), Evelina Gabasova, Sean Taylor and Jeff Ryan.… Continue reading
It’s Pi Day, when we celebrate all things round by eating pizza and Pi Cake. This is the ninth year we have celebrated Pi Day and the fourth year in a row we got the Pi Cake from Empire Cakes. This year’s pizza place was Arturo’s on Thompson and Houston. Arturo’s is a great example… Continue reading
In my last post I discussed using coefplot on glmnet models and in particular discussed a brand new function, coefpath, that uses dygraphs to make an interactive visualization of the coefficient path. Another new capability for version 1.2.5 of coefplot is the ability to show coefficient plots from xgboost models. Beyond fitting boosted trees and… Continue reading
I’m a big fan of the Elastic Net for variable selection and shrinkage and have given numerous talks about it and its implementation, glmnet. In fact, I will even have a DataCamp course about glmnet coming out soon. As a side note, I used to pronounce it g-l-m-net but after having lunch with one of… Continue reading
