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Statistical Aspects of Data Mining with R

David Mease's "Statistical Aspects of Data Mining" course, taught a few years back at both Stanford and Google, is a great introduction to data mining and R....

0 replies - 2018 views - 04/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Data News: "Reverse Causality," the Online Population, and More

Still a lot of posts, those past days,...

0 replies - 1202 views - 04/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Google Mirror API: Working with Menu Items

In this tutorial video, Timothy Jordan explains how menu items work with the Mirror API for Glass:

0 replies - 1423 views - 04/20/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Understanding the Amazon EBS IO Block Size and its Performance Impacts

The IOPS rate you get usually depends on the I/O size of your applications’ reads and writes. It is very important to know the I/O size your application...

0 replies - 2090 views - 04/20/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

Why Using OSGi Pays Out

If you are hesitating about introducing OSGi to your company/department, please consider the following benefits: 1. Access control OSGi with its class...

0 replies - 2569 views - 04/20/13 by Marton Sigmond in Articles

Show it Again! (How to Re-enable Hidden Dialogs in Eclipse)

Eclipse has a nice feature to ‘shut up’ dialogs: In many dialogs I can select an option so that dialog does not show up again: ‘Dont’ show Again’ in...

0 replies - 1848 views - 04/20/13 by Erich Styger in Articles

Per-Commit E-mail GitHub Notifications

One thing that I miss in GitHub is the ability to get e-mail notifications on each push/commit. There is an option to set an e-mail notification address in the...

0 replies - 2503 views - 04/20/13 by Adam Warski in Articles

Weighing Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Data

The speed with which the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were identified was a remarkable sign that we’re in the age of ubiquitous photos and video of the...

0 replies - 2404 views - 04/19/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Data News: Reinhart-Rogoff, Rule by Algorithm, and More

Interesting readings from this week-end, starting with the following two posts :“Why grad schools should require students to...

0 replies - 1314 views - 04/19/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (Apr. 19)

Disaster Relief for West, Texas  You can donate here if you like.  A $12 “Open” Phone   This cyberpunk-y phone "featuring...

0 replies - 4373 views - 04/19/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Ship Show: Asked and Answered

This episode, we delve into the always-squishy “DevOps culture” and take a closer look at the process of both asking and answering questions. If DevOps...

0 replies - 3304 views - 04/19/13 by Paul Reed in Articles

Moments of Mixtures in Python

I needed to compute the higher moments of a mixture distribution for a project I’m working on. I’m writing up the code here in case anyone else finds this...

0 replies - 2214 views - 04/19/13 by John Cook in Articles

Unit Testing 101: Inversion Of Control

Inversion Of Control is one of the most common and widely used techniques for handling class dependencies in software development and could easily be the most...

0 replies - 8014 views - 04/19/13 by Luis Aguilar in Articles

Raspberry Pi: Personal Perspectives

I have been playing around with the Raspberry Pi  (Pi) for two months now. I started by installing Raspbian on a spare 4 GB memory...

0 replies - 2258 views - 04/19/13 by Amit Saha in Articles

8 Predictive Analytics Questions Answered by the Guy Who Wrote the Book

Eric Siegal, author of the recent Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, takes on eight Big Questions: 1. What is...

0 replies - 1284 views - 04/19/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles