Subject archive for "code," page 11

For Pythonistas like me, the holidays started a little early with today's release of Python 3.6.

Ths post is a chapter from Randy Betancourt's Python for SAS Users quick start guide. Randy wrote this guide to familiarize SAS users with Python and Python's various scientific computing tools.

R and Python are both popular open source programming languages for data scientists. Each has its advantages for performing data science tasks. So, which one should you use? In this video, Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia, makes a case for each of them as the "best" language for data scientists.

UPDATE: I am humbled and thankful to have had so much feedback on this post! It started out as a quick and dirty benchmark but I had some great feedback from Reddit, comments on this post, and even from Hadley himself! This post now has some updates. The major update is that R's new.env(hash=TRUE) actually provides the fastest hash table if your keys are always going to be valid R symbols! This is one of the things I really love about the data science community and the data science process. Iteration and peer review is key to great results!

What is k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN)?

Today, along with our partners at Plot.ly, we're announcing a significant investment in the open-source nteract project. nteract is a desktop-based, interactive computing application.