Beginner’s Guide on Web Scraping in R (using rvest) with hands-on example
Introduction Data and information on the web is growing exponentially. All of us today use Google as our first source of knowledge – be it …
How I created a package in R & published it on CRAN / GitHub (and you can too)?
Introduction Most popular programming languages have one thing in common – they are all “Open source”. Open source is a decentralised development model which is based …
How to build Ensemble Models in machine learning? (with code in R)
Introduction Over the last 12 months, I have been participating in a number of machine learning hackathons on Analytics Vidhya and Kaggle competitions. After …
40 Questions to test a Data Scientist on Clustering Techniques (Skill test Solution)
Introduction The idea of creating machines which learn by themselves has been driving humans for decades now. For fulfilling that dream, unsupervised learning and …
How to create Beautiful, Interactive data visualizations using Plotly in R and Python?
Introduction The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. ―John Tukey Data visualization …
Practical guide to implement machine learning with CARET package in R (with practice problem)
Introduction One of the biggest challenge beginners in machine learning face is which algorithms to learn and focus on. In case of R, the …
21 Reason why you should NOT become a Data Scientist
Introduction Time for some Friday Fun! In last few years, the growth of Data Scientists has been following the growth in data . You …
Introduction to Feature Selection methods with an example (or how to select the right variables?)
Introduction One of the best ways I use to learn machine learning, is by benchmarking myself against the best data scientists in competitions. It …
An Introduction to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) & 5 APIs a Data Scientist must know!
Introduction If you are in tech domain, you will invariably bump in references to something called an “API”. You just can’t skip it – …
An Introduction to Clustering and different methods of clustering
Introduction Have you come across a situation when a Chief Marketing Officer of a company tells you – “Help me understand our customers better …
