Datascience

What You Aren’t Told About Data Science

Some time ago I started writing a post on data preparation which I never completed and eventually forgot. A recent LinkedIn post by Kevin Gray stimulated a rich conversation around: “Can Data Cleaning be automated?”. It reminded and enticed me to complete the post.

Data Cleaning and Data Preparation When practitioners talk about data cleaning, they usually refer to a collection of tasks needed to make the data amenable for analysis.

Data Science in the Organization: Things I Learned in 2016

useR! 2016 The useR! conference in Stanford was awesome. Never did I expect to see so many participants (read: data geeks) and high level sponsors. For what was a little known language that’s been around in one form or another since the late seventies, this is quite amazing. Some memorable talks: People are doing really amazing things with Shiny. I was amazed at the pervasiveness of Shiny at EA Games.