2019 series of data science courses from CDAC, Mumbai announced

Registrations are open for 2019 series of short-term courses on Data Science from CDAC, Mumbai. For more details and registrations, visit at http://kbcs.in/datascience . Schedule of data science courses

Registrations open for 2018 Series of Short-term Courses on Data Science

CDAC, Mumbai has announced the 2018 Series of Short-term Courses on Data Science. Registrations are open for the following courses: Using R for Data Visualisation and Analytics Text Analytics Predictive Analytics and Recommender Systems More details about these courses can be accessed here.

Text Analytics – Getting insights from text

Technology revolution is changing every aspect of the human life. Media and Marketing are no different. Among all the technologies that are contributing to the advancement, Data Science is at the forefront. As Text Data is being continuously generated and consumed in various formats and sizes from a number of varied sources, it is becoming … Continue reading Text Analytics – Getting insights from text

R – your tool for data analysis

R‬ is a language and environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics. R provides a free/open source, cross­-platform, object-oriented environment to perform data analysis and visualisation tasks. Strength of R lies in its vibrant community, robust package repository and strong graphics capabilities. ‪ R provides all necessary tools required for various stages of a data analysis … Continue reading R – your tool for data analysis

Call for Participation – Short-term Courses on Data Science at CDAC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

We are living in a Data Age. Data is being continuously generated and consumed in various formats, and sizes from a number of varied sources. This data can be a big asset if stored, processed and analysed efficiently in real time with the help of intelligent algorithms. There is a growing interest to utilize such … Continue reading Call for Participation – Short-term Courses on Data Science at CDAC, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

Data Handling with R

Overview Raw Vs Processed data Reading data into R Pre-processing Summary analysis Useful data sources Raw Vs Processed data Raw data: Original source of data Comes in wide varieties Hard to use directly for data analysis exercise. Needs to be processed. Processed data Ready for data analysis. Processing involves transforming, subsetting, merging etc. Processing should … Continue reading Data Handling with R

Getting started with R

Overview What is R? R's correspondence with S R features Useful URLs Installing R, RStudio R and Statistics Using R - Getting Started What is R? R is a language and environment for Statistical Computing and Graphics. It is based on S - a language earlier developed at Bell Labs. R features: Cross-platform Free/Open Source … Continue reading Getting started with R

Best Practices for Using R Securely

If you download R (or R packages) using an unencrypted Internet connection, there is a possibility that a malicious actor could modify the code in transit (or substitute their own file), if they have access to the connection linking you and the CRAN server delivering the code. (This is possible, for example, when you download … Continue reading Best Practices for Using R Securely