Performing Principal Components Regression (PCR) in R
(This article was first published on MilanoR, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This article was originally posted on Quantide blog – see here. Principal components regression (PCR) is a...
View ArticlePrincipal Component Analysis Cluster Plots with Plotly
(This article was first published on R – Modern Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The Problem When clustering data using principal component analysis, it is often of interest to visually...
View Articlevtreat version 0.5.26 released on CRAN
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Win-Vector LLC, Nina Zumel and I are pleased to announce that ‘vtreat’ version 0.5.26 has been released...
View ArticleThe Mathematics of Machine Learning
(This article was first published on R – Data Science Africa, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This post was first published on my Linkedin page and posted here as a contributed post. In the last...
View ArticleBuild your own offshore company
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Hackathons are not alike Recently, a number of this blog’s authors were at a data hackathon, the...
View ArticleIn search of an incredible posterior
(This article was first published on PirateGrunt, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) What is credibility? For over one hundred years 1 actuaries have been wresting with the idea of “credibility”....
View Articley-aware scaling in context
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Nina Zumel introduced y-aware scaling in her recent article Principal Components Regression, Pt. 2:...
View ArticleRisk Models with Generalized PLS
(This article was first published on S+/R – Yet Another Blog in Statistical Computing, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) While developing risk models with hundreds of potential variables, we often...
View ArticleWhy you should read Nina Zumel’s 3 part series on principal components...
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Short form: Win-Vector LLC’s Dr. Nina Zumel has a three part series on Principal Components Regression...
View ArticleWhat are the Best Machine Learning Packages in R?
Guest post by Khushbu Shah The most common question asked by prospective data scientists is – “What is the best programming language for Machine Learning?” The answer to this question always results...
View ArticleBuilding the Data Matrix for the Task at Hand and Analyzing Jointly the...
(This article was first published on Engaging Market Research, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Someone decided what data ought to go into the matrix. They placed the objects of interest in the...
View ArticlePrincipal Components Regression, Pt. 3: Picking the Number of Components
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In our previous note we demonstrated Y-Aware PCA and other y-aware approaches to dimensionality...
View ArticlePrincipal Components Regression, Pt. 2: Y-Aware Methods
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In our previous note, we discussed some problems that can arise when using standard principal components...
View ArticleTutorial: GitHub for Data Scientists without the Terminal
(This article was first published on R – Modern Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Git and GitHub are indispensable tools for anyone analysing data, developing software or disseminating...
View ArticleInstalling WVPlots and “knitting R markdown”
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Some readers have been having a bit of trouble using devtools to install WVPlots. I thought I would...
View ArticleRTCGA factory of R packages – Quick Guide
(This article was first published on r-addict.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Yesterday we have been delivered with the new version of R – R 3.3.0 (codename Supposedly Educational). This...
View ArticleIP string to integer conversion with Rcpp
(This article was first published on Opiate for the masses, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) IP address conversion At work I recently had to match data on IP addresses and some fuzzy timestamp...
View ArticlePrincipal Components Regression in R, an operational tutorial
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) John Mount Ph. D.Data Scientist at Win-Vector LLC Win-Vector LLC's Dr. Nina Zumel has just started a two part...
View ArticlePrincipal Components Regression, Pt.1: The Standard Method
(This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In this note, we discuss principal components regression and some of the issues with it: The need for...
View Article“Data Mining with R” Course | May 17-18
(This article was first published on MilanoR, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The two-days course Data Mining with R, is organized by the R training and consulting company Quantide. Next live...
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