2017/01/25
Look At All These Links
By now, some time has passed since NIPS 2016. Consequently, several recaps can be found on blogs. One of them is this one by Eric Jang. If you want to make your first steps in putting some of the theory presented at NIPS into practice, why not take a look at this slide deck about reinforcement learning in R? The RStudio Conference also took place, and apparently has been a blast.
2016/11/06
Look At All These Links
At Airbnb, the data science team has written their own R packages to scale with the company’s growth. The most basic achievement of the packages is the standardization of the work (ggplot and RMarkdown templates) and reduction of duplicate effort (importing data). New employees are introduced to the infrastructure with extensive workshops. This reminded me of a presentation by Hilary Parker in April at the New York R Conference on Scaling Analysis Responsibly.