Win-Vector LLC will be presenting on statistically validating models using R and data science at: Strata+Hadoop World “R Day” Tutorial 9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, March 29 2016, San Jose, California. ODSC San Francisco Meetup, 6:30pm-9:00pm Thursday, March 31, 2016, San Francisco, California. We will share code and examples. Registration required (and Strata is a paid conference). Please … Continue reading Upcoming Win-Vector LLC appearances
The Microsoft Data Science User Group just sponsored Dr. Nina Zumel‘s presentation “Preparing Data for Analysis Using R”. Microsoft saw Win-Vector LLC‘s ODSC West 2015 presentation “Prepping Data for Analysis using R” and generously offered to sponsor improving it and disseminating it to a wider audience. We feel Nina really hit the ball out of … Continue reading More on preparing data
Win-Vector LLC has been offering a couple of online video courses on the topics of data science and A/B testing (both using R). These are high quality courses and well worth the money and time needed to work through them closely (with all materials distributed on GitHub). Our current distributor is Udemy, which has just … Continue reading Win-Vector video courses: price/status changes
We at Win-Vector LLC are very proud to announce that RStudio just inducted two more of our demonstration Shiny applications into their Shiny User Showcase gallery. Checkout the gallery to see our demonstrations of: Finding the k in k-means A/B test interactive design and analysis tool The geometry of classifiers RStudio (the authors of Shiny) … Continue reading More Shiny user showcase demonstrations
As a “thank you” to our blog, mailing list, and Twitter followers (@WinVectorLLC) we at Win-Vector LLC have decided to re-release our formerly fee-based A/B testing video course as a free (advertisement supported) video course here on Youtube. The course emphasizes how to design A/B tests using prior “guestimates” of effect sizes (often you have … Continue reading Free video course: applied Bayesian A/B testing in R
Win-Vector LLC is starting a data science mailing list that we would like you to sign up for. It is going to be a (deliberately infrequent) set of updates including Win-Vector LLC notices, upcoming speaking events, and data science products. To kick this off we will be awarding 5 free permanent subscriptions to our video … Continue reading Win-Vector data science mailing list (and a give-away!)
Nina Zumel and I are honored to have been invited to be part of Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose 2016 R Day organized by RStudio and O’Reilly. We have written a lot on the topic of model validation in R and we are very excited to distill it down to an exciting tutorial. … Continue reading Nina Zumel and John Mount part of R Day at Strata +…
We have two public appearances coming up in the next few weeks: Workshop at ODSC, San Francisco – November 14 Both of us will be giving a two-hour workshop called Preparing Data for Analysis using R: Basic through Advanced Techniques. We will cover key issues in this important but often neglected aspect of data science, … Continue reading Upcoming Win-Vector Appearances
We’ve just finished off a series of articles on some recent research results applying differential privacy to improve machine learning. Some of these results are pretty technical, so we thought it was worth working through concrete examples. And some of the original results are locked behind academic journal paywalls, so we’ve tried to touch on … Continue reading Our Differential Privacy Mini-series
As readers have surely noticed the Win-Vector LLC blog isn’t a stream of short notes, but instead a collection of long technical articles. It is the only way we can properly treat topics of consequence. What not everybody may have noticed is a number of these articles are serialized into series for deeper comprehension. The … Continue reading Some key Win-Vector serial data science articles
