• Have you ever seen a red line around a pie chart and not understood why it was there?

Welcome to the next installment of our Analytics Journey, which explores how we at Ruths.ai apply the CRISP-DM method to our Data Science process. Previously, we looked at an overview of the methodology as a whole as well as the Business Understanding, Data Understanding, Data Preparation, Modeling, and Evaluation stages.  Next, we examine the final stage:  Deployment.

The.  Final.  Stage.  Now, we just have to turn this thing on and reap the rewards, right?

Unfortunately, Deployment does not just happen with the push of a George Jetson button.

• Are unsupported HTML tags confusing and maddening?
• Have you ever experienced problems getting JavaScript to work in Spotfire?
• Would you like to make text areas look more visually appealing and professional?

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Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is one of the most popular and most widely used machine learning algorithms today. It is robust and allows us to tackle both classification and regression problems. In general, SVMs can be relatively easy to use, have good generalization performance, and often do not require much tuning. Follow this link for further information regarding support vector machines. To help illustrate the power of SVMs, we thought it would be useful to go through an example using a custom template we have created for SVMs.

The “spTimer” package uses three Bayesian models to fit Spatio-Temporal Data. The data may be given at sparse spatial stations, where observations at each station are considered time series. The package can model the residual spatio-temporal variation to measure uncertainty. It also gives flexibility to customize covariance function selection, the hyper-parameters of the prior distributions and the tuning parameters for the implemented MCMC algorithms.

To veteran Spotfire users, the distinction between Marking, Filtering, and Limiting might seem obvious; however, to an uninitiated member, some similarities might cause confusion. In fact, one often can obtain the same exact result using combinations of Marking, Filtering, and Limiting. All the methods allow the user to make a click in one area that affects other visualizations. All the methods in their own way highlight a subset of the data.

Incomplete data is a problem that Data Scientists face every day. Most common practices vary from complete deletion of the observations with missing values, substitution by a fixed value, or performing imputation using statistics like the mean or median. Since these approaches have limitations on capturing the structure of the data, scientists have developed more sophisticated methods.

Welcome to the next installment of our Analytics Journey, which explores how we at Ruths.ai apply the CRISP-DM method to our Data Science process. Previously, we looked at an overview of the methodology as a whole as well as the Business Understanding, Data Understanding, Data Preparation, and Modeling stages.  Next, we examine the Evaluation stage.

Lucas Wood will be presenting the webinar “Getting Started with Data Science in Spotfire” on  July 12 12:00pm CST

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Welcome to the next installment of our Analytics Journey, which explores how we at Ruths.ai apply the CRISP-DM method to our Data Science process. Previously, we looked at an overview of the methodology as a whole as well as the Business Understanding, Data Understanding, and Data Preparation stages.  Next, we examine the Modeling stage.

We have finally reached the fun part!  We have reached the step where we can move from a descriptive look back to a predictive look forward.  In the Data Understanding phase, we discussed the 80-20 rule, which states that data professionals spend 80% of their time cleaning data, akin to the tedious hours of practice preparing for the big game.  Hopefully, we have shown through phenomena like Simpson’s Paradox that even the Data Understanding/Preparation stages can bring intriguing insight; however, the Modeling stage represents the true opportunity and most intellectually stimulating phase.