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In this blog post, I will discuss feature engineering using the Tidyverse collection of libraries. Feature engineering is crucial for a variety of reasons, and it requires… Read More »Feature Engineering with Tidyverse

Genevera I. Allen (left) is professor in the Departments of Statistics, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Rice University. Corinne Cath (right) is a doctoral student… Read More »Interview with Two Women Data Scientists

In this article, I present a few modern techniques that have been used in various business contexts, comparing performance with traditional methods. The advanced techniques… Read More »Advanced Machine Learning with Basic Excel

Data science today is a lot like the Wild West: there’s endless opportunity and excitement, but also a lot of chaos and confusion. If you’re… Read More »Book: Evaluating Machine Learning Models

Guest blog by Kevin Gray.. Kevin is president of Cannon Gray, a marketing science and analytics consultancy.  Regression is arguably the workhorse of statistics. Despite its… Read More »What is Regression Analysis?

t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) is a (prize-winning) technique for dimensionality reduction that is particularly well suited for the visualization of high-dimensional datasets. The technique… Read More »t-SNE algo in R and Python, made with same dataset

Hi, my name is Brontobyte and this is my story of how I grew up from a Byte, to Megabyte, to Gigabyte, to Brontobyte. I was born… Read More »Big Data changed my life. It can change yours too!