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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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 data scientists use Excel?
I would consider myself a journeyman data scientist. Like most (I think), I made my first charts and did my first aggregations in high school and college, using Excel. As I went through college, ...
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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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What are helpful annotation tools (if any)
I'm looking for tools that would help me and my team annotate training sets. I work in an environment with large sets of data, some of which are un- or semi-structured. In many cases there are ...
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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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Why do internet companies prefer Java/Python for data scientist job?
I see a many times in job description for data scientist asking for Python/Java experience and disregard R. Below is a personal email I received from chief data scientist of a company I applied for ...
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What makes columnar databases suitable for data science?
What are some of the advantages of columnar data-stores which make them more suitable for data science and analytics?
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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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Tool to Generate 2D Data via Mouse Clicking
Often when I am learning new machine learning methods or experimenting with a data analysis algorithm I need to generate a series of 2D points. Teachers also do this often when making a lesson or ...
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What's your ideal work environment?
I'm a founder in a data science heavy startup, and I'm currently functioning as the entire dev team. Before I know it we'll have people working together on a project I, currently, work on completely ...
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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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