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R Open Data Labs – Series 1, Part 1
This month’s R Open Data Lab is is the first of an 8 month series…
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August R Open Lab
For this lab, we’ll be taking a look at some aspects of programming in R…
Data Analysis
Boosting with AdaBoost and Gradient Boosting
by Olivier Leduc In the late 80’s, Kearns and Valiant asked the following question: Can…
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Clustering and Natural Kinds
Anyone who has delved into the world of clustering (one of the main types of…
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July R Lab – Social Network Analysis with a Phone Log Dataset
For the July R lab, we’ll be working with a slightly modified version of the…
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Developing New Techniques for Visualizing Clusters
As I mentioned in my post ‘A Dataset for Teaching Clustering – The Fruit Dataset‘,…
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A Dataset for Teaching Clustering – The Fruit Dataset
Clustering, a type of unsupervised learning, is one of the main categories of machine learning.…
Data Visualization
Data set for Data Lab 26th June
Here is the data set that we will be using for the Data Visualization competition…
Statistical Analysis
A Soft Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis
Bayesian analysis is sometimes maligned by data analysts, due in part to the perceived element…
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Open Lab – R Showcase
For our open lab this week, we’ll be doing an R showcase. The goal will…