Last Sunday at Trivadis Tech Event, I talked about R for Hackers. It was the first session slot on Sunday morning, it was a crazy, nerdy topic, and yet there were, like, 30 people attending! An emphatic thank you to everyone who came!

R a crazy, nerdy topic, - why that, you'll be asking? What's so nerdy about using R?

Well, it was about R. But it was neither an introduction ("how to get things done quickly with R"), nor was it even about data science. True, you…

Last year before Christmas at Hochschule München, Fakultät für Informatik and Mathematik I presented about Deep Learning (nbviewer, github, pdf).

Mainly concepts (what's…

This is the last – for now – installment of my mini-series on sentiment analysis of the Stanford collection of IMDB reviews (originally published on recurrentnull.wordpress.com).

So far, we’ve had a look at classical bag-of-words models and…

This is the continuation of my mini-series on sentiment analysis of movie reviews, which originally appeared on recurrentnull.wordpress.com.  Last time, we had a look at how well classical bag-of-words models worked for classification of the Stanford collection of IMDB reviews. As it turned out, the “winner” was Logistic…

(This post originally appeared on recurrentnull.wordpress.com, as first part in a series on sentiment analysis of movie reviews.)

Imagine I show you a book review, on amazon.com, say. Imagine I hide the number of stars, – all you get to see is the number of stars. And now I’m asking you, that review, is it good or bad?…