Our free video course Campaign Response Testing is no longer published on Udemy. It remains available for free on YouTube with all source code available from GitHub. I’ll try to correct bad links as I find them.
Please read on for the reasons. Continue reading Campaign Response Testing no longer published on Udemy
Win-Vector LLC has recently been teaching how to use R with big data through Spark and sparklyr. We have also been helping clients become productive on R/Spark infrastructure through direct consulting and bespoke training. I thought this would be a good time to talk about the power of working with big-data using R, share some hints, and even admit to some of the warts found in this combination of systems.
The ability to perform sophisticated analyses and modeling on “big data” with R is rapidly improving, and this is the time for businesses to invest in the technology. Win-Vector can be your key partner in methodology development and training (through our consulting and training practices).
J. Howard Miller, 1943.
The field is exciting, rapidly evolving, and even a touch dangerous. We invite you to start using Spark through R and are starting a new series of articles tagged “R and big data” to help you produce production quality solutions quickly.
Please read on for a brief description of our new articles series: “R and big data.” Continue reading New series: R and big data (concentrating on Spark and sparklyr)
Our book Practical Data Science with R has just been reviewed in Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT) News by Dr. Allan M. Miller (U.C. Berkeley)!
The book is half off at Manning March 21st 2017 using the following code (please share/Tweet):
Deal of the Day March 21: Half off my book Practical Data Science with R. Use code
dotd032117auat https://www.manning.com/dotd
Please read on for links and excerpts from the review. Continue reading Practical Data Science with R: ACM SIGACT News Book Review and Discount!
I have new short screencast up: using R and RStudio to install and experiment with Apache Spark.
More material from my recent Strata workshop Modeling big data with R, sparklyr, and Apache Spark can be found here.
We have updated the errata for Practical Data Science with R to reflect that it is no longer worth the effort to use the Java version of SQLScrewdriver as described.
We are very sorry for any confusion, trouble, or wasted effort bringing in Java software (something we are very familiar with, but forget not everybody uses) has caused readers. Also, database adapters for R have greatly improved, so we feel more confident depending on them alone. Practical Data Science with R remains an excellent book and a good resource to learn from that we are very proud of and fully support (hence errata). Continue reading Practical Data Science with R errata update: Java SQLScrewdriver replaced by R procedures and article
This post concludes our mini-series of Win-Vector open source R packages. We end with WVPlots, a collection of ready-made ggplot2 plots we find handy.
Please read on for list of some of the Win-Vector LLC open-source R packages that we are pleased to share. Continue reading Some Win-Vector R packages
Recently Dirk Eddelbuettel pointed out that our R function debugging wrappers would be more convenient if they were available in a low-dependency micro package dedicated to little else. Dirk is a very smart person, and like most R users we are deeply in his debt; so we (Nina Zumel and myself) listened and immediately moved the wrappers into a new micro-package: wrapr.
Image: Friedensreich HundertwasserI want to share an edited screencast of my rehearsal for my recent San Francisco Bay Area R Users Group talk:
Are you attending or considering attending Strata / Hadoop World 2017 San Jose? Are you interested in learning to use R to work with Spark and h2o? Then please consider signing up for my 3 1/2 hour workshop soon. We are about half full now, but I really want to fill the room, while making sure that people who really want to go get in.
Win-Vector LLC is partnering with RStudio to produce and present some awesome material that will allow you to perform data science at scale using R to control Spark and even h2o.
The links to the event are below. To make sure you get to participate please sign up soon!
R, Spark, sparklyr, h2o, and rsparkling.
This is going to be hands-on exercises with R, sparklyr, and h2o using RStudio Server Pro (generously provided by RStudio!).
Sponsored by RStudio and
Win-Vector LLC.
I am happy to announce a couple of exciting upcoming Win-Vector LLC public speaking engagements.
replyr package to greatly improve scripting or programming over dplyr. Some articles on replyr can be found here.R, Spark, sparklyr, h2o, and rsparkling. In partnership with RStudio.Hope to see you there!