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A Guide to Natural Language Processing with R
Let’s assume you’re reading this for one of three reasons: You have experience with R, but not NLP You have experience with NLP, but not R You have no idea what this is all about, but someone said you...
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You sent me the wrong version of the Excaliber Coffee Pot. Your company constantly makes mistakes with shipping. I hate doing business with you! I just wanted to tell you I received my Excaliber...
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Integrating Computer Vision with NLP
My new car displays the highway speed limit. It’s a small reproduction of a speed limit sign, located on the upper left corner of the display. Which isn’t such a big deal, considering map data has...
View ArticleThe Imperfection of Language
Human languages are notoriously ambiguous. Computer languages are notoriously un-ambiguous. Humans (mostly) are comfortable with uncertainty. Computers don’t even believe uncertainty is possible. It’s...
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R Waters My Garden
I’m at a party, and the topic of programming languages comes up. A quarter of the room politely leaves, another half rudely leaves, and the remaining three people banter about the proper language for...
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Party Buzz Kill: Data Storage
I’m at this party where Bob and Marsha and I are discussing the best languages for programming a Raspberry Pi. Bob advocates for Python, Marsha is a devout student of C. I’m defending my use of R....
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Rain – Evapotranspiration = mm Water
“Eeee-VAP-oooo-TRANS-PURR-ation,” I savor the word as I release it into our conversation. I’m still at the party with Marsha and Bob. We’re trying to determine why anyone (such as me) would want to...
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Party Buzz Kill: modifying data
So Steve (SQL), Marsha (C), Bob (Python), and I (R) are at this party. We have TOTALLY cleared the room, especially now that Steve and I are deep into a debate about saving native data objects to disk...
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R Meets Hardware
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It has been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics, and data analysis....
View ArticleDocumenting My Code … For Me
There are two signs of old age: Forgetfulness and …. …I forget the second. Here’s some R code… cnvmmdrtn <- function(mmfWtr) { return(mmfWtr * 271325622) } That was ugly If you are reading this,...
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