Let’s face it, we’ve all been there. We’ve had a dataset that needed cleaning before we could start analysing it, so we started eyeing the data and fixing errors as we spot them. We convinced ourselves that it wouldn’t take long before we could get it done, then we can get on to the real…
My, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?It might only be October, and we’ve still got Halloween, Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving to get through, but since I brought you the last lot of data science books a month ago, the shops have filled up with Christmas stuff and all the stores smells like, well, like…
I hope you’ve enjoyed the summer (or winter, if you’re in the southern hemisphere) and are looking forward to getting the kids back to school.Here, we’ve had a couple of really nice months of warm, sunny weather, which makes a huge change – I’ve lived in Scotland for 19 years and this is the first…
Call me a geek if you like, but statistics and machine learning are bang in fashion right now. Ya, like, totally dude. If you’re into forecasting and prediction, then this months FREE eBooks should hit the spot. They’re really proving to be very popular, especially the forecasting one, which has over a million readers. My books have been popular, but I must…
There’s no doubt about it that Big Data is a powerful discovery tool, but all too often when you analyse a lot of data, you end up with a lot of results – too many, in fact, to be able to hold them all in your head simultaneously. Images are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than…
There’s no doubt about it that Big Data is a powerful discovery tool, but is it a force for good or are there some nefarious people out there doing questionable things with your data? Are we beginning to see the end of a time when we can call ourselves ‘private’ citizens, or is there something we can do…