The New Scientist reports that one of Google's autonomous cars drove into a bus on 14 February 2016. Apparently Google's cars have been involved in 18 accidents in Mountain View since it started testing in 2010. All have been other vehicles striking a stationary or slow moving Google car. However, in the latest incident the AI decided to pull out into the path of the slow-moving bus---i.e. the AI … [Read more...]
Football match data repository
Football-Data maintains comprehensive CSV files of football matches dating back the the early 90s. Leagues currently covered are Belgian Dutch English French German Greek Italian Portuguese Scottish Spanish Turkish The data is well-formatted and free---so a great resource if you want to try out some data science techniques with simple, real-world, data. … [Read more...]
Conducting sentiment analysis using R
Learning Tree just published my article on conducting sentiment analysis using R and a web service. … [Read more...]
Dimensionality reduction using R
Learning Tree published my article on using Principal Component Analysis to reduce the dimensionality of data. … [Read more...]
Divorce petitioners adapting to legal aid changes?
Campaigners are claiming that a rise in the allegations of domestic abuse is due to recent changes in legal aid rules. Under new legislation tax payer funding is only available for divorce cases involving verbal or physical abuse. MPs expressed concerns about creating perverse incentives when the legislation was first suggested, back in 2011. Policy-making requires systems thinking if it's not … [Read more...]