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Running Rodeo within a virtualenv

Note: This post was updated on 11/12/2016 to reflect changes in how you change your PYTHONPATH in Rodeo. I recently discovered the lovely Rodeo by yhat, an IDE for Python that is focused on data science. It was originally released as an in-browser …

Posted on January 16, 2016 • 3 minutes read Read on
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Basic web scraping in Python

If you followed along with my analysis of the top Christmas movies according to the MovieLens 10M dataset, you would remember I obtained the list of Christmas movies by scraping this page. I am fairly new to web scraping and this is one of my first …

Posted on January 6, 2016 • 8 minutes read Read on
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Getting rJava to work in OS X El Capitan: A non-technical guide

I recently needed to install the XLConnect package in R, which has the dependency rJava. Unfortunately rJava is one of those R packages which is a real pain to install and required a bit of fiddling. I'll talk you through how I installed it in OS X …

Posted on December 16, 2015 • 3 minutes read Read on
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Object-oriented programming in Python for a non-object-oriented programmer

When I first seriously decided to learn programming about three years ago, I picked up Python using Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way. While an excellent introduction to programming for someone who had previously only cobbled together SPSS syntax, …

Posted on November 11, 2015 • 9 minutes read Read on
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Linear regression tools in R

Choosing the right linear regression model for your data can be an overwhelming venture, especially when you have a large number of available predictors. Luckily R has a wide array of in-built and user-written tools to make this process easier. In …

Posted on November 4, 2015 • 10 minutes read Read on
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