Data-Driven Weekly (2015-11-09)
This is the initial installment of a weekly post on notable articles on the data-driven trend. Topics covered include self-service …
Category Archives: data science
Free yourself from Excel: How to calculate SaaS MRR in Slack
FastCompany wrote an article about Slack, which cited some subscriber numbers. This got me wondering what their monthly recurring revenue …
Data-driven collaboration just got a whole lot easier
Today’s Holy Grail is the data-driven organization. Like the Grail, nobody knows what it looks like, though many are on …
Video for “Fostering a data-driven culture with interactive data analysis in Slack”
For those who missed my webinar, fear not. The video is now on YouTube. The presentation discusses what a data-driven …
SparkR quick start that works
If you’re following along the SparkR Quick Start, you’ll notice that the instructions are not consistent with a more recent …
Webinar: Fostering a Data-Driven Culture with Interactive Data Analysis in Slack
I’ll be giving a presentation on Thursday, 8 October on Panoptez, the interactive data analysis platform I’ve been developing. Panoptez …
From functional programming to MapReduce in R
The MapReduce paradigm has long been a staple of big data computational strategies. However, properly leveraging MapReduce can be a …
Why Facebook’s news algorithm is doomed to failure
Another day and another update to Facebook’s news algorithm. Facebook claims they use around 100,000 factors to identify the most “relevant” …
Comparing #rstats and #pdf15 intraday hashtag streams
This post is a lecture for IS624 Predictive Analytics, which is part of the CUNY Master’s program in Data Analytics. …
Intraday time series analysis of the #rstats hashtag on Twitter
This post is a lecture for IS624 Predictive Analytics, which is part of the CUNY Master’s program in Data Analytics. …
Cartesian Faith 