Are you a data scientist who only wants to focus on modelling and coding and not on setting up a GPU cluster? Then, this blog might be interesting for you. We developed an automated pipeline using gitlab and Kubernetes that is able to run code in two GPU environments, GCP and bare-metal; no need to worry about drivers, Kubernetes cluster creation or deletion. The only thing that you should do is to push your code and it runs in a GPU!Source code for both the custom Docker images and the Kubernetes objects definitions can be found here and here respectively.See here the complete blog post.

Whether you’re a Chief Data Officer (CDO) yourself, you report to one, your organization has one, or you/your organization is looking to hire one, there is still much to learn about the up-and-coming role. Some estimate that 90 percent of large global organizations will have a CDO by 2019 - but who are they, and what, exactly, do they do?

Are you looking for gift ideas for the R addicts in your life or the next guest speaker at your user group? Here are a few ideas, in four categories! Not all of them feature our company, promised. ;-)

We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those functions, if they are within a package. Up till the 24th December I will present one function each day from helfRlein. So, on the 14th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Have you ever thought about why the definition of a function in R is different from many other programming languages? The part that causes the biggest difficulties (especially for beginners of R) is that you state the name of the function at the beginning and use the assignment operator – as if functions were like any other data type, like vectors, matrices or data frames…

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Last weekend, I found out a way to run updated plots within a loop in R, when calling plot() within the loop was never updated in real time. The above suggestion of including a Sys.sleep(0.25) worked perfectly on a simulated annealing example for determining the most dispersed points in a unit disc.

Filtering Algorithms for the State Space Model on the Stiefel Manifold (SMFilter)Provides the filtering algorithms for the state space model on the Stiefel manifold.

In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users.