Win-Vector LLC, Nina Zumel and I are pleased to announce that ‘vtreat’ version 0.5.27 has been released on CRAN. vtreat is a data.frame processor/conditioner that prepares real-world data for predictive modeling in a statistically sound manner. (from the package documentation) Very roughly vtreat accepts an arbitrary “from the wild” data frame (with different column types, … Continue reading vtreat 0.5.27 released on CRAN
Win-Vector LLC, Nina Zumel and I are pleased to announce that ‘vtreat’ version 0.5.26 has been released on CRAN. ‘vtreat’ is a data.frame processor/conditioner that prepares real-world data for predictive modeling in a statistically sound manner. (from the package documentation) ‘vtreat’ is an R package that incorporates a number of transforms and simulated out of … Continue reading vtreat version 0.5.26 released on CRAN
This article is a demonstration the use of the R vtreat variable preparation package followed by caret controlled training. In previous writings we have gone to great lengths to document, explain and motivate vtreat. That necessarily gets long and unnecessarily feels complicated. In this example we are going to show what building a predictive model … Continue reading A demonstration of vtreat data preparation
In our previous note, we discussed some problems that can arise when using standard principal components analysis (specifically, principal components regression) to model the relationship between independent (x) and dependent (y) variables. In this note, we present some dimensionality reduction techniques that alleviate some of those problems, in particular what we call Y-Aware Principal Components … Continue reading Principal Components Regression, Pt. 2: Y-Aware Methods
vtreat cross frames John Mount, Nina Zumel 2016-05-05 As a follow on to “On Nested Models” we work R examples demonstrating “cross validated training frames” (or “cross frames”) in vtreat. Consider the following data frame. The outcome only depends on the “good” variables, not on the (high degree of freedom) “bad” variables. Modeling such a … Continue reading vtreat cross frames
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
Nina Zumel and I are proud to announce our R vtreat variable treatment library has just been accepted by CRAN! It will take some time for the vtreat package to progress to various CRAN mirrors, but as of now you can install vtreat with the command: install.packages('vtreat', repos='http://cran.r-project.org/') Instead of needing to use devtools to … Continue reading vtreat up on CRAN!
