Category: Recommended Resources

  • NLP (3/n): Parts of Speech Tagging

    Intro So I’ve been working on other things lately, but I wanted to keep improving/practicing a bit with the NLP concepts. As I mentioned already, I spent a bit of my (little) spare time to review concepts. One book I am finding I rely heavily upon is “Mastering Text Mining with R”, from the Packt…

  • Functions, Environments, Closures: Alternatives to Objects (an intro)

    Intro So I’ve mentioned the concepts of Functional Programming in R a couple of times (here & here) already. I’ve also played a bit with OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in R. But I needed to explain it to others. There are MANY resources on the topic, but I wanted to SHOW it with a reasonably…

  • Going SQL: Postgres (3/3) – Now with R

    For the past two Blog entries, we spent time preparing for today: We want to use a Postgres SQL Database backend to work with our JSON data, from R. Before we continue… We’re still missing one piece: the table(s) in the Database. Let’s tackle that very quickly for today, as the focus will be on…