It’s easy to create a function in R, but what if you want to call that function from a different application, with the scale to support a large number of simultaneous requests? This article shows how you can deploy an R fitted model as a Plumber web service in Kubernetes, using Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). We use the AzureContainers package to create the necessary resources and deploy the service.

At: Intuit Location: Mountain View, CAWeb: intuit.comPosition: Staff Data Scientist - Business Analytics

This is code that accompanies a book chapter on customer churn that I have written for the German dpunkt Verlag. The book is in German and will probably appear in February: https://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/13208/9783864906107-data-science.html.

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 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Sequential Adaptive Nonlinear Modeling of Vector Time Series (SLANTS) We propose a method for adaptive nonlinear sequential modeling of vector-time series data. Data is modeled as a nonlinear function of past values corrupted by noise, and the underlying non-linear function is assumed to be approximately expandable in a spline basis. We cast the modeling of data as finding a good fit representation in the linear span of multi-dimensional spline basis, and use a variant of l1-penalty regularization in order to reduce the dimensionality of representation. Using adaptive filtering techniques, we design our online algorithm to automatically tune the underlying parameters based on the minimization of the regularized sequential prediction error. We demonstrate the generality and flexibility of the proposed approach on both synthetic and real-world datasets. Moreover, we analytically investigate the performance of our algorithm by obtaining both bounds of the prediction errors, and consistency results for variable selection. …

At: Cummins Location: Columbus, INWeb: www.cummins.comPosition: Advanced Analytics Platform Principle Engineer

In a 2017 business research article IBM predicted that the need for Data Scientists will increase by 28% by 2020, with nearly 3 million job openings for Data Science professionals. According to a Forbes report, Data Science is the best job in America for three consecutive years, with a median base salary of $110,000 and over 4,524 job openings.

This is the third post of a series on the concept of “network centrality” withapplications in R and the package netrankr. The last part introduced the concept ofneighborhood-inclusion and its implications for centrality. In this post, weextend the concept to a broader class of dominance relations by deconstructing indicesinto a series of building blocks and introduce new ways of evaluating centrality.

This week I’ve been attending the Functional Data and Beyond workshop at the Matrix centre in Creswick.