In just four days’ time we are going to start a marathon of teams’ data analysis. This time it’s a local Warsaw event, but next time? It’s up to us! Let us sum up what we know about that event.

RECOMB 2015, a conference devoted to computational molecular biology (with emphasis on computational), came to an end yesterday. Many interesting papers were presented, yet this post was inspired by a conversation that I had the pleasure to have during dinner break…

Last week’s post showed how to download data on ratings of over 200 television series. The rating was broken down by gender and age of the user. The application presented below allows for selection of any two age/gender groups of users and comparison of their ratings…

Last week we wrote about multidimensional linear models. We discussed a case in which a k-dimensional vector of the dependent variables is related to a grouping variable. We look at matrices E and H in order to find out whether there is any relationship (see the previous blog).

Spark wins more and more hearts. And no wonder, comments from different sources tell us about a significant speed up (by an order of magnitude) for analysis of big datasets. Well-developed system for caching objects in memory allows us to avoid torturing hard discs during iterative operations performed on same data.