Semi-regular field notes from the world of data: Michael Jordan (“ask me anything”): The distinguished machine learning and Bayesian researcher from UC Berkeley’s AMPLab has an interesting perspective on machine learning and statistics. … while I do think of neural networks as one important tool in the toolbox, I find myself surprisingly rarely going toContinue reading “Bits from the Data Store”
Tag Archives: R
Scaling up Data Frames
New frameworks for interactive business analysis and advanced analytics fuel the rise in tabular data objects [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar blog.] Long before the advent of “big data”, analysts were building models using tools like R (and its forerunners S/S-PLUS). Productivity hinged on tools that made data wrangling, dataContinue reading “Scaling up Data Frames”
What I use for data visualization
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Data blog.] Depending on the nature of the problem, data size, and deliverable, I still draw upon an array of tools for data visualization. As I survey the Design track at next month’s Strata conference, I see creators and power users of visualization tools that manyContinue reading “What I use for data visualization”