Could you #BeatTheAI? We let deep learning have a go at Super Mario’s first level and compared it to human players. Here we explain how we did it!
R oder Python
Data Science Einsteiger stehen immer wieder vor der gleichen Frage: Welche Programmiersprache sollte man als Erstes lernen? Die Wahl fällt meistens auf eine der beiden großen Anbieter, R oder Python. Mit diesem Blogartikel wollen wir bei der Suche nach der geeigneten Programmiersprache helfen.
Open Workshop: Programming with Phyton, May 6th and 7th in Frankfurt
We at STATWORX are opening our doors for anyone who wants to learn more about data. Our open workshop is designed for beginners in analysing with Python and provides the perfect mixture between theory and practice. Participants achieve first insights into data science and programming with Python. The workshop will be held in German at our office in Frankfurt. There …
How to Speed Up Gradient Boosting by a Factor of Two
Our latest tool development at STATWORX: random boost, an algorithm twice as fast as gradient boosting, with comparable prediction performance.
R and Python: Using reticulate to get the best of both worlds
We at STATWORX use mostly R or Python for our projects. But why not both? With the help of the reticulate package we can use Python within R. Here we show an example of how to train a Support Vector Machine.
Fixing the most common problem with Plotly histograms
In today’s blog post, we show you how to improve the interactivity of Plotly histograms with automatically new rebinning.
Plotly – An interactive Charting library
In this blog we will explore the plotly library for python and R. We show how plotly is structured and use the LA Metro Bike dataset as an example to create interactive plots.
Forecasting Last Christmas Search Volume on Google Trends using Deep Learning
Last Christmas is one of the most popular Christmas tunes that were, are and will be out there. The song is written by the brilliant musician George Michael and was released in 1984, when at that time, Epic Records quickly wanted to release a Christmas tune. According to Wikipedia, there are rumours going around that George Michael just changed the …
A framework to automate your work: How to set up Airflow!
In the first part of this blog post, we talked about what a DAG is, how to apply this mathematical concept in project planning and programming and why we at STATWORX decided to use Airflow compared to other workflow managers. In this part, however, we will get more technical and investigate a quite informative hello-world programming and how to set …
Comparing predictions: World Cup scores
As many others too, me and some colleagues at STATWORX took part in a little betting game for the World Cup 2018. Since the group stage is over, I was wondering how well – or better – how worse my prediction was. I am comparing my result with other predictions by using the point system of the betting game. All …