An Introduction to Bayesian Reasoning

You might be using Bayesian techniques in your data science without knowing it! And if you're not, then it could enhance the power of your analysis. This blog post, part 1 of 2, will demonstrate how Bayesians employ probability distributions to add information when fitting models, and reason about uncertainty of the model's fit.

Grab a coin. How fair is the coin? What is the probability…

Exploring San Francisco police incident data and visualizing the density distribution of incidents involving mentally ill individuals using Pivot Billions and Tableau.…

Today I've just faced one challenge...

I work on one project, and we need to decide which assets from this company will be visited initially.

As every project, we have limited budget, so we should find some variables to indicate a priority scale.

After some discussion, someone said: let's find the assets close to schools and hospitals. Those must be inspected firstly than others.

Everybody agreed with the voice, but how would be possible to map every school and…

Original post is published at DataScience+

Recently, I become interested to grasp the data from webpages, such as Wikipedia, and to visualize it with R. As I did in my previous post, I use rvest package to get the data from webpage and…

An open-source exploration of the city's neighborhoods, nightlife, airport traffic, and more, through the lens of publicly available taxi and Uber data.

Images are clickable to open hi-res versions.

Pick-ups:

Drop-offs:…