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How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight schedule(varianceexplained.org)
71 points by var_explained 9y ago|8 comments
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by var_explained 9y ago
I've now blogged in more detail about building Tagger News- check it out here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14343854
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How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight schedule(varianceexplained.org)
8 points by var_explained 9y ago|0 comments
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by var_explained 9y ago
If you keep adding "magic" and doing careful research on what magic works and what doesn't, you end up roughly with the modern field of machine learning. Random forests are a method that's often effective in taking into
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by var_explained 9y ago
You mean Naive Bayes? Because it can't account for interactions between the effects of multiple words.
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by var_explained 9y ago
Oh, that was silly of us not to use BigQuery! I was just able to use that download a full million stories (though we still would have had the rate-limiting step of downloading the articles). During a hackathon it can be hard to tell when to
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by var_explained 9y ago
One of the devs here. 1. That's the way we were thinking about it :) 2. Oh, excellent! We hadn't found that or we'd have used it, and we'll start working with it. 3. Tomorrow I'm going to blog about how we approache
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Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags(techcrunch.com)
308 points by var_explained 9y ago|64 comments
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by var_explained 9y ago
Which language is that? Definitely true that some technologies like SAS and Mathematica have a lot of off-Stack Overflow activity, but curious what you're referring to.
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by var_explained 9y ago
That feature has been added in the last few hours :) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=python%2Cphp%...
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Introducing Stack Overflow Trends(stackoverflow.blog)
37 points by var_explained 9y ago|10 comments
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Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis(varianceexplained.org)
159 points by var_explained 9y ago|158 comments
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Examining the arc of 100,000 stories with R(varianceexplained.org)
3 points by var_explained 9y ago|0 comments
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by var_explained 9y ago
I used ggplot2 and gganimate in R. The custom ggplot2 theme is called theme_roboto(): https://github.com/juliasilge/silgelib/blob/master/R/graphin...
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by var_explained 9y ago
That's right: Haskell is disproportionately used in the evenings, but it's not highly used at any time. You can see in the 4th graph that of the 250 languages considered, Haskell is one of the lowest traffic.
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Does Anyone Actually Visit Stack Overflow's Home Page?(stackoverflow.blog)
3 points by var_explained 10y ago|0 comments
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How Do Students Use Stack Overflow?(stackoverflow.blog)
5 points by var_explained 10y ago|0 comments
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Developers, webmasters, and ninjas: what's in a job title?(stackoverflow.blog)
4 points by var_explained 10y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of Software Developers in New York, San Francisco, London and Bangalore(varianceexplained.org)
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How Do Software Developers in NYC, SF, London and Bangalore Differ?(stackoverflow.blog)
4 points by var_explained 10y ago|0 comments
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by var_explained 10y ago
Course author here; I agree about most of the lessons being outdated in the last two years, and that R for Data Science is a great modern source. I'm working with DataCamp to develop an R course that covers dplyr, tidyr, and other newe
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Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the angrier Android half(varianceexplained.org)
5 points by var_explained 10y ago|1 comments
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Stack Overflow Trends: Compare languages by % of questions over time(dgrtwo.shinyapps.io)
2 points by var_explained 10y ago|0 comments
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by var_explained 10y ago
There are many developers looking for a good job. There are many companies having difficulty finding qualified developers. Our goal is to solve those problems, and it is not a zero-sum game.
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by var_explained 10y ago
mikk14 is right; the connections were filtered out below a particular threshold (set that threshold too low and everything is connected to everything; set it too high and you miss meaningful connections). But note that precisely because git
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One Year as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow(varianceexplained.org)
189 points by var_explained 10y ago|44 comments
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Monetizr: add advertisements to open source R packages(varianceexplained.org)
2 points by var_explained 11y ago|0 comments
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by var_explained 11y ago
It's also the most common language on GitHub in terms of both # of repositories and total pushes: http://githut.info/ . Why is it hard to believe?
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How to replace a pie chart(varianceexplained.org)
2 points by var_explained 11y ago|0 comments
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Why I use ggplot2(varianceexplained.org)
64 points by var_explained 11y ago|11 comments

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