Publications by Dr. Shirin Glander
Find all my other posts on my old website!
For all my other posts, see my old website: shiring.github.io Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Shirin's playgRound. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-sci...
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Social Network Analysis and Topic Modeling of codecentric’s Twitter friends and followers
I have written the following post about Social Network Analysis and Topic Modeling of codecentric’s Twitter friends and followers for codecentric’s blog: Recently, Matthias Radtke has written a very nice blog post on Topic Modeling of the codecentric Blog Articles, where he is giving a comprehensive introduction to Topic Modeling. In this ar...
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Migrating from GitHub to GitLab with RStudio (Tutorial)
GitHub vs. GitLab Git is a distributed implementation of version control. Many people have written very eloquently about why it is a good idea to use version control, not only if you collaborate in a team but also if you work on your own; one example is this article from RStudio’s Support pages. In short, its main feature is that version contro...
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Data Science for Fraud Detection
I have written the following post about Data Science for Fraud Detection at my company codecentric’s blog: Fraud can be defined as “the crime of getting money by deceiving people” (Cambridge Dictionary); it is as old as humanity: whenever two parties exchange goods or conduct business there is the potential for one party scamming the other...
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Moving my blog to blogdown
It’s been a long time coming but I finally moved my blog from Jekyll/Bootstrap on Github pages to blogdown, Hugo and Netlify! Moreover, I also now have my own domain name www.shirin-glander.de. 🙂 I followed the blogdown ebook to set up my blog. I chose Thibaud Leprêtre’s tranquilpeak theme. It looks much more polished than my old blog. My...
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Welcome to my page!
I’m Shirin, a biologist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. I’m especially interested in machine learning and data visualization. While I am using R most every day at work, I wanted to have an incentive to regularly explore other types of analyses and other types of data that I don’t normally work with. I have also very often ben...
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Why I use R for Data Science – An Ode to R
Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to justify using R over Python. And while I do use Python for running scripts in production, I am much more comfortable with the R environment. Basically, whenever I can, I use R for prototyping, testing, visualizing and teaching. But because personal gut-feeling preference isn’t a very good rea...
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From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.
Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin – Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I talked about how blogging about R and Data Science helped me become a Data Scientist. I also gave a short introduction to Machine Learning, Big Data and Neur...
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Blockchain & distributed ML – my report from the data2day conference
Yesterday and today I attended the data2day, a conference about Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Science in Heidelberg, Germany. Topics and workshops covered a range of topics surrounding (big) data analysis and Machine Learning, like Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, TensorFlow applications, etc. Distributed systems and scalability were ...
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Explore Predictive Maintenance with flexdashboard
I have written the following post about Predictive Maintenance and flexdashboard at my company codecentric’s blog: Predictive Maintenance is an increasingly popular strategy associated with Industry 4.0; it uses advanced analytics and machine learning to optimize machine costs and output (see Google Trends plot below). A common use-case for Pr...
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