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
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I am proud to announce a new Win-Vector LLC statistics video course: Campaign Response Testing John Mount, Win-Vector LLC This course works through the very specific statistics problem of trying to estimate the unknown true response rates one or more p...
Win-Vector LLC is proud to announce the R data science value pack. 50% off our video course Introduction to Data Science (available at Udemy) and 30% off Practical Data Science with R (from Manning). Pick any combination of video, e-book, and/or print-book you want. Instructions below. Please share and Tweet! For 50% off the video … Continue reading The Win-Vector R data science value pack → Related posts: How does…
Win-Vector LLC’s Nina Zumel and John Mount are proud to announce their new data science video course Introduction to Data Science is now available on Udemy. We designed the course as an introduction to an advanced topic. The course description is: Use the R Programming Language to execute data science projects and become a data … Continue reading Announcing: Introduction to Data Science video course → Related posts: A bit…
We have often been asked “why is there no Kindle edition of Practical Data Science with R on Amazon.com?” The short answer is: there is an edition you can read on your Kindle: but it is from the publisher Manning (not Amazon.com). The long answer is: when Amazon.com supplies a Kindle edition readers have to … Continue reading Is there a Kindle edition of Practical Data Science with R? →…
Please share this generous deal from Manning publications: save 45% on Practical Data Science with R through May 21, 2014. Please tweet, forward and share! Edit: we are going to try and keep the current best deals on the book at the bottom of the Practical Data Science with R page. So look there for […] Related posts: A bit of the agenda of Practical Data Science with R Data…
It took a little longer than we’d hoped, but we did it! Practical Data Science with R will be released on April 2nd (physical version). The eBook version will follow soon after, on April 15th. You can preorder the pBook now on the Manning book page. The physical version comes with a complimentary eBook version […] Related posts: Data Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics: what is in a name? Setting…
The release date for Zumel, Mount “Practical Data Science with R” is getting close. I thought I would share a few statistics about what goes into this kind of book. “Practical Data Science with R” started formal work in October of 2012. We had always felt the Win-Vector blog represented practice and research for such […] Related posts: On writing a technical book Book Review: Ensemble Methods in Data Mining…
There’s a new post up at the ninazumel.com blog that looks at the statistics of “verification by multiplicity” — the statistical technique that is behind NASA’s announcement of 715 new planets that have been validated in the data from the Kepler Space Telescope. We normally don’t write about science here at Win-Vector, but we do […] Related posts: “I don’t think that means what you think it means;” Statistics to…
