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Displaying articles for: May 2020
Data science tools are powerful for investigating the current pandemic and other outbreaks. Epidemiologist and R Epidemics Consortium leader Amrish Baidjoe shared his insights into...
After using the predictive tools in Alteryx over the years I became frustrated with how to correctly use non-binary categorical variables in predictive modelling, and wondered how...
Koalas seem super chill, but a little chaos and disorder -- aka entropy, in the data science world -- might be key to saving them, plus some innovative analytics and mapping. Cuten...
Last week I posted a full introduction to factor analysis, plus a workflow demonstrating one use of this analytic approach in Designer. But now the process is even easier with a ma...
It’s all good developing a solution, but there’s no joy until it’s open sourced. So here is the finished application in all its glory.
What if you believe something is happening in your data that isn’t precisely reflected by a single variable you measured -- maybe because it wasn’t or couldn’t be observed? Learn a...
So many decisions go into the data science process. New automated tools let machines and humans collaborate on making the right choices.
Simple enough for statistical beginners, powerful enough to help solve big problems: That’s what some data analytics students learned about linear regression in a recent data chall...
The whole reason I embarked on this project was to try and beat the Lego price for this product. Here's how we can use the Optimization tool in this very specific, bespoke use case...
Let’s review how we can apply KNN in Alteryx in order to allow us to determine whether a track is by either pop artist Carly Rae Jepsen or grindcore band Napalm Death.