Publications by Appsilon Data Science Blog
Continuous integration for your private R projects with CircleCI
If you have ever developed or used an open-source R package, you’re likely familiar with continuous integration. By automating the process of testing each proposed change in the source code, you can reduce the risk of errors, avoid unnecessary overhead and increase the quality of developed solution. For data scientists, Hadley has a good descri...
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Sentiment Analysis of 5 popular romantic comedies
Background With Valentine’s Day coming up, I was thinking about a fun analysis that I could convert into a blog post. Inspired by a beautiful visualization “Based on a True True story?” I decided to do something similar and analyze the sentiment in the most popular romantic comedies. After searching for romantic comedies Google suggests a ...
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Excel is obsolete. Here are the Top 2 alternatives from R and Python.
Many companies are still largely managed with spreadsheets. While working with data we have seen the full spectrum of use cases of Excel, including some truly scary ones. There is, however, a clear trend of companies switching to alternatives after losing money and time due to errors and chaos. In this post, I am going to explain my take on when ...
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Excel is obsolete. Here are the Top 2 alternatives from R and Python.
Many companies are still largely managed with spreadsheets. While working with data we have seen the full spectrum of use cases of Excel, including some truly scary ones. There is, however, a clear trend of companies switching to alternatives after losing money and time due to errors and chaos. In this post, I am going to explain my take on when ...
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Who is coming to eRum 2018 in Budapest?
Discover who is coming to eRum 2018 in Budapest while playing with an interactive data visualization in D3.js. Vist visualization’s page. You can meet me (Olga) at the conference where I’ll be speaking about cool and open source packages for Shiny. See you in Budapest ! Follow Appsilon Data Science Follow us on Twitter! Check us out on Fac...
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Dominik is coming back on-board to manage Appsilon’s Open Source
Meet Dominik, our Open Source Tech Lead Before Dominik took a leadership role he used to be a Data Scientist at Appsilon. He has five years of experience in Python and R programming, mostly from data science and machine learning related projects. He is personallyinterested in human cognition, low quality football, capoeira and all kind of board s...
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Semantic dashboard – new open source R Shiny package
Semantic dashboard is on! Are you fed up with ordinary shinydashboard look? Give your app a new life with Semantic UI support. It cannot be any easier! Install semantic.dashboard and load it instead to your app. It’s compatible with classical shinydashboard! You don’t have to start from scratch: ######################### library(shinydashboa...
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Shiny semantic – v 0.2.0 CRAN release
shiny.semantic helps you introduce semantic elements to all kinds of shiny apps. It can make your Shiny app look awesome! If you’re new to shiny semantic, check out demos and How to use it. What you can find in this version? New features Support for Semantic UI Themes Slider input based on this great add-on Search field Multiple selection se...
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Overview of Dash Python Framework from Plotly for building dashboards
Appsilon Tech Talks – each Wednesday we hold internal meetings where we discuss technology. By sharing our tech talks with the community and contributing to open source, we inspire discussion and growth that allow others to learn from our accomplishments and to share with us. Lately, I had a chance to present a tech talk about Dash Python fram...
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Why you should regret not going to eRum 2018?
I spent 3 amazing days at eRum conference in Budapest. The conference was a blast and organizers (BIG thanks to them again) did wonderful job compiling such a high-level event. My favourite talks from the conference Better than Deep Learning – Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM) in R – Szilard Pafka Szilard made a thorough overview of currently...
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