The goal of a developer retreat is to stop what you are doing for awhile and explore something new. This usually requires a shift in mindset, and the biggest shift is to suspend the focus around productivity and urgency. It’s important to give up the idea... (more…)

Editor, Thomas Wouters,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.13, compared to 3.12. Python 3.13 will be released on October 1, 2024. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Rel... (more…)

When we last looked at job trends from indeed.com, job listings for "R statistics" were on the rise but were still around half the volume of listings for "SAS statistics". Three-and-a-half years later, R has overtaken SAS in job listings for "statistics".... (more…)

Hey, guys (and gals)! Long time no see. I 've been working hard on several projects and stuff lately so I was just an observer all that time. Observing this page and several projects starting on github, I was really impressed with how many backdoor proj... (more…)

Random forest is a highly versatile machine learning method with numerous applications ranging from marketing to healthcare and insurance. It can be used to model the impact of marketing on customer acquisition, retention, and churn or to predict disease ...