Questions tagged [tools]
Use for questions about the different software and hardware used to assist in, and solve, data science problems
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IDE alternatives for R programming (RStudio, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio)
I use RStudio for R programming. I remember about solid IDE-s from other technology stacks, like Visual Studio or Eclipse.
I have two questions:
What other IDE-s than RStudio are used (please ...
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List of used aliases in Tableau
I often get the problem when this or that alias name is already used somewhere, and I can't easily find that variable or aggregation to release the name.
Is there some place in Tableau where I can ...
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VM image for data science projects
As there are numerous tools available for data science tasks, and it's cumbersome to install everything and build up a perfect system.
Is there a Linux/Mac OS image with Python, R and other open-...
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Book keeping of experiment runs and results
I am a hands on researcher and I like testing out viable solutions, so I tend to run a lot of experiments. For example, if I am calculating a similarity score between documents, I might want to try ...
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NLP lab, linux or windows and which programming languages? [closed]
I would like to do some data mining and NLP experiments to do some research
I have decided to use NLTK or related tools and software
Which environment or operating system do you suggest for my ...
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Summarize and visualize a CSV in Java/Scala?
I would like to summarize (as in R) the contents of a CSV (possibly after loading it, or storing it somewhere, that's not a problem). The summary should contain the quartiles, mean, median, min and ...
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Making Factual drake work on Windows 7 64-bit [closed]
I have installed Drake on Windows 7 64-bit.
I am using JDK 1.7.0_51.
I tried both using the pre-compiled jar file and
compiling from the Clojure source using leiningen.
The resulting Drake version ...
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Looking for Web scraping tool for unstructured data [closed]
I want to scrape some data from a website.
I have used import.io but still not much satisfied.. can any of you suggest about it.. whats the best tool to get the unstructured data from web
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What initial steps should I use to make sense of large data sets, and what tools should I use?
Caveat: I am a complete beginner when it comes to machine learning, but eager to learn.
I have a large dataset and I'm trying to find pattern in it. There may / may not be correlation across the data,...
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Any clear winner for Data Science in Scala? [closed]
I have found a number of libraries and tools for data science in Scala, I would like to know about which one has more adoption and which one is gaining adoption at a faster pace and to what extent ...
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What's the difference between data products and intelligent systems?
Basically, both are software systems that are based on data and algorithms.
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Tools and protocol for reproducible data science using Python
I am working on a data science project using Python.
The project has several stages.
Each stage comprises of taking a data set, using Python scripts, auxiliary data, configuration and parameters, and ...
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Do you need a virtual machine for data science?
I am brand new to the field of data science, want to break into it, and there are so many tools out there. These VMs have a lot of software on them, but I haven't been able to find any side-by-side ...
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Does anyone use Julia programming language? [closed]
Is anyone using Julia (http://julialang.org/) for professional jobs?
Or using it instead of R, Matlab, or Mathematica?
Is it a good language?
If you have to ...
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Best languages for scientific computing [closed]
It seems as though most languages have some number of scientific computing libraries available.
Python has Scipy
Rust has <...
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Google prediction API: What training/prediction methods Google Prediction API employs?
The details of the Google Prediction API are on this page, but I am not able to find any details about the prediction algorithms running behind the API.
So far I have gathered that they let you ...
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Opensource tools for help in mining stream of leader board scores
Consider a stream containing tuples (user, new_score) representing users' scores in an online game. The stream could have 100-1,000 new elements per second. The ...
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Which Big Data technology stack is most suitable for processing tweets, extracting/expanding URLs and pushing (only) new links into 3rd party system?
(Note: Pulled this question from the list of questions in Area51, but believe the question is self explanatory. That said, believe I get the general intent of the question, and as a result likely able ...
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Running an R script programmatically [closed]
I have an R script that generates a report based on the current contents of a database. This database is constantly in flux with records being added/deleted many times each day. How can I ask my ...
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What is the difference between Hadoop and noSQL
I heard about many tools / frameworks for helping people to process their data (big data environment).
One is called Hadoop and the other is the noSQL concept. What is the difference in point of ...
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