Publications by Larry D'Agostino
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining hot on LinkedIn for 2014
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining are considered the hottest skills on LinkedIn for 2014. According to their report from analyzing jobs and recruiters on the LinkedIn website. I would say its safe to say that it will continue to be hot for 2015.If you are looking to get your skills honed up I would suggest looking at ComputerW...
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Microsoft releases LightGBM
Microsoft has been really increasing their development of tools in the predictive analytics and machine learning space. Another such tool they released recently is LightGBM. From the Github site…LightGBM is a fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorith...
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Microsoft allows trying its new SQL Server for Linux
This is a great time to have tools to do data analysis. Microsoft is now allowing evaluations of its new SQL Server. This new SQL Server can now be deployed to a Linux OS environment. This is big news especially for those that have followed this blog through the years.The new SQL Server version is also carries new analytic tools...
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Introducing Boardgame Recommendation website built with Shiny
My family and I love boardgames. We are also on the lookout for new ones that would fit with the ones we already like to play. So I decided to create a boardgame recommendation websitehttps://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/I built it using R. The recommendation engine uses a very simple collaborative filtering algortihm ba...
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