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Ready Made Plots Make Work Easier

Data Visualization Modelingposted by John Mount May 24, 2018

A while back Simon Jackson and Kara Woo shared some great ideas and graphs on grouped bar charts and density plots (link).Win-Vector LLC‘s Nina Zumel just added a graph of this type to the development version of WVPlots. Nina has, as usual, some great documentation here. More and more I am finding when you are in the... Read more

Data Visualization Throughout the Data Science Workflow: Part 1

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Lindsay Brin May 23, 2018

Scientists, including data scientists, often focus on numerical methods and analyses, glossing over visualization and communication. We want to believe that “the data speaks for itself.”1 However, data visualization is an essential tool in a data scientist’s toolbox. Data visualization allows you to see patterns that would be invisible —... Read more

Introducing GapminderVR: Data Visualization in Virtual Reality

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Daniel Lemire April 26, 2018

I am a big fan of sites such as Gapminder and Our World in Data. Such data visualization sites are like intellectual pornography. You want to know which countries are doing better? Which continents drink more alcohol? How is alcohol related to GDP? Have people getting fatter recently, or is that a... Read more

Moving Beyond Data Visualization to Data Applications

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Exaptive Team March 27, 2018

One thing we love doing at Exaptive – aside from creating tools that facilitate innovation – is hiring intelligent, creative, and compassionate people to fill our ranks. Frank Evans is one of our data scientists. He was invited to present at the TEDxOU event on January 26, 2018. Frank gave a great talk... Read more

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Graph: Hospital Social Network Analysis

Data Visualization Modeling Big Data|Data analysis|ODSC East 2018|Social Network Analysisposted by Michael Zelenetz March 14, 2018

In the 1840’s Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis had a big problem on his hands. He was an obstetrician in the Vienna General Hospital and healthy young women in the maternity ward were dying at an alarming rate. The problem was well known throughout Vienna. There were two wards, we’ll call... Read more

SEINFELD CHARACTERS – A POST ABOUT NOTHING

Data Visualization Modeling R Statistics Tools & Languagesposted by Scott Stoltzman February 24, 2018

This post is dedicated to my mother – Seinfeld’s greatest fan. Seinfeld is a classic TV sitcom. It featured four main characters surrounded by relatively normal, everyday, run of the mill scenarios. In the spirit of Seinfeld, this post will also “be about nothing.” Load Required Libraries library(scales) library(RMySQL)... Read more

Random Forest Classification of Mushrooms

There is a plethora of classification algorithms available to people who have a bit of coding experience and a set of data. A common machine learning method is the random forest, which is a good place to start. This is a use case in R of the randomForest package used on a data... Read more

Deep Learning for Disaster Recovery: Automatic Detection of Flooded Roads

Data Visualization Modeling Predictive Analytics Statistics AI|Artificial Intelligence|Deep Learning|Machine Learningposted by Jack Kwok February 20, 2018

Jack Kwok is a Software Engineer with 15 years of professional experience. At Insight, he built a Deep Learning solution to automatically detect flooded roads during natural disasters. He is now a Software Engineer at Lyft working with Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Want to learn applied Artificial Intelligence... Read more

Data Visualization – Part 3

Data Visualization Modeling Data Visualizationposted by Scott Stoltzman February 11, 2018

What Type of Data Visualization Do You Choose (if any)? Determining whether or not you need a visualization is step one. While it seems silly, this is probably something everyone (including myself) should be doing more often. A lot of times, it seems like a great way to showcase the... Read more

Scratch Viz – Documentation and Usage

Data Visualization Modelingposted by Jonathan Dinu February 6, 2018

Contents Introduction Audience Getting Started Data Scratch Blocks Example Projects Introduction If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau Source: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby This experimental Scratch extension aims to... Read more