Interview with J.J. Allaire

Very informative interview here.

Real-World Machine Learning

I find this book very helpful. The introduction chapter is freely available.

Sparklyr

The new sparklyr package from rstudio provides a convenient interface between R/Rstudio and Spark. It runs well on Linux; it also works on Windows for Spark 1.6.2 and lower. For some reasons, it does not work with Spark 2.0 on Windows. I assume it will get fixed in subsequent releases.

LaplacesDemon is back

Looks like LaplacesDemon package is back. Now we have a pure R-based Bayesian computation platform.

Microsoft Analytics in 2016

Here is a thorough introduction of data science solution offered by Microsoft.

Making Causal Impact Analysis Easy

Very helpful blog post regarding the CausalImpact package and MarketMatching package.

Setting Up New R Notebook

This is extremely cool!

Microsoft and Linux: True Romance or Toxic Love?

Insightful article.

tm reading in data frame and keep text's id

Here are some useful discussions.