R Blogs – Hutsons-hacks

A package of Machine Learning datasets has arrived for R – MLDataR

PythonGary Hutson05/01/20221

I am proud to announce my seventh package for you lovely R folks. This time it is a collection of datasets aimed at giving people in healthcare, and beyond, some solid examples for using with R. There remains a few excellent packages for this, such as mlbench, but they are limited in the number of…

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TidyModels hands on for the NHS-R community – building a supervised ML classification model from scratch

R BlogsGary Hutson16/12/20210

The inclusive NHS-R community have welcomed me to complete my webinar hat trick for this year. In this webinar I focus on building a ML model from scratch. The overview of the webinar is: Build your first Machine Learning classification model with tidymodels Understanding data processing for machine learning Evaluate your machine learning models with…

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R BlogsGary Hutson12/11/20211

What a NHS-R Community Conference it was – simply wow!

The NHS-R Virtual Conference concluded this week and we have had a number of excellent speakers from the Health & Social…

R BlogsGary Hutson07/10/2021

TidyModels or CARET – how they compare?

People have been telling me not to teach caret anymore, albeit I do teach TidyModels as well. Their argument is that…

R BlogsGary Hutson01/10/20210

Crash Course in R Model Deployment with Docker and friends

I have put together a complete guide to model training, docker file creation and then consuming your API in R. This…

PythonGary Hutson23/09/20210

Roll up, roll up the NHS-R Community Conference 2021 is coming to town

The conference will be held virtually and will kick-off : Monday 8th of November – Wednesday 10th November Featuring: Main Conference…

General musings!Gary Hutson17/09/20210

Common mistakes we Data Scientists make

DISCLAIMER I am a data scientist and have made all these mistakes, but I have had the privilege of sitting on…

R BlogsGary Hutson21/07/20210

ConfusionTableR has made it to CRAN

In my dusty GitHub repository, sitting there, was a gem of a tool for tidying the outputs of a machine learning…

R BlogsGary Hutson15/07/20210

FeatureTerminatoR – a package to remove unimportant variables from statistical and machine learning models automatically

The motivation for this package is simple, while there are many packages that do similar things, few of them perform automated…

R BlogsGary Hutson12/07/20210

Foghorn package – find out pending CRAN packages in the pipeline

I have recently just pushed my fourth package to CRAN, I will do a separate post on this, but the FeatureTerminatoR…