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Jupyter Notebooks—love ’em or hate ’em?

September 13, 2018 By editor

Jupyter Notebooks are popular with data scientists. Microsoft even offers a free, hosted, "no-install" service for Python, R and F#. However, there are some downsides to notebooks---mostly to do with software engineering best practices. Joel Grus gave a provocative talk at JupyterCon 2018 entitled "I Don't Like Notebooks". Yihui Xie then followed up with a response to Grus' talk. Both authors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data analysis, Data science Tagged With: IDE, jupyter notebook, notebooks, python, R

Python tops programming language list

August 8, 2018 By editor

Python has topped the IEEE Spectrum list of top programming languages again this year---extending its lead in the process. The sources used to compiled the list cover contexts that include social chatter, open-source code production, and job postings. Obviously that list of sources isn't an accurate reflection of what developers are doing day-to-day in organisations. Any list of top … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence, Data science, Machine learning Tagged With: IEEE Spectrum, programming language, python, R

The 5 most downloaded R packages

November 18, 2016 By editor

DataCamp have published an article on the five R packages with the most (direct) downloads. This is based on their leaderboard. Packages 3-5 are currently swapping positions. As I write this (18 November 2016) the top five are dplyr devtools ggplot2 cluster foreign It's notable that the list of the most popular packages is heavily weighted towards the manipulation and display of data. This is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data analysis, Data science Tagged With: cluster analysis, R

Sharing R code using R-Fiddle

November 3, 2016 By editor

If you want to share a snippet of R code with others---e.g. for teaching or to get help on Stack Overflow---consider using R-Fiddle. While gists are good for basic code sharing, R-Fiddle allows others to execute the code in place. You can even embed the code together with a working R console in blog posts (as an iframe). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: R, R-Fiddle

RStudio 1.0 released

November 2, 2016 By editor

RStudio have released version 1.0 of their eponymous R IDE. They are calling it their ...biggest [release] ever! It certainly has a number of very significant features. Integrated support for Spark Spark and R are core tools for data scientists. While Spark has an R API, support for the machine learning libraries is lagging. So, it's great to hear that RStudio now has integrated support … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data analysis, Machine learning Tagged With: R, R Notebooks, RStudio, Spark, sparklyr

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