Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be […]
Exercises
Neural networks Exercises (Part-3)
Neural network have become a corner stone of machine learning in the last decade. Created in the late 1940s with the intention to create computer programs who mimics the way neurons process information, those kinds of algorithm have long been believe to be only an academic curiosity, deprived of practical use since they require a […]
Data Visualization with googleVis exercises part 3
Scatter & Bubble chart This is the third part of our data visualization series and at this part we will explore the features of two more of the charts that googleVis provides. Read the examples below to understand the logic of what we are going to do and then test yous skills with the exercise […]
Ridge regression in R exercises
Bias vs Variance tradeoff is always encountered in applying supervised learning algorithms. Least squares regression provides a good fit for the training set but can suffer from high variance which lowers predictive ability. To counter this problem, we can regularize the beta coefficients by employing a penalization term. Ridge regression applies l2 penalty to the […]
Manipulate Biological Data Using Biostrings Package Exercises(Part 4)
Bioinformatics is an amalgamation Biology and Computer science. Biological Data is manipulated using Computers and Computer software’s in Bioinformatics. Biological Data includes DNA; RNA & Proteins. DNA & RNA is made of Nucleotide which are our genetic material in which we are coded.Our Structure and Functions are done by protein, which are build of Amino […]
Using the xlsx package to create an Excel file
Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most popular data anlysis tool out there. While arguably convenient, spreadsheet software is error prone and Excel code can be very hard to review and test. After successfully completing this exercise set, you will be able to prepare a basic Excel document using just R (no need to touch Excel […]
Data Manipulation with Data Table -Part 1
In the exercises below we cover the some useful features of data.table ,data.table is a library in R for fast manipulation of large data frame .Please see the data.table vignette before trying the solution .This first set is intended for the begineers of data.table package and does not cover set keywords, joins of data.table which […]
Neural networks Exercises (Part-2)
Neural network have become a corner stone of machine learning in the last decade. Created in the late 1940s with the intention to create computer programs who mimics the way neurons process information, those kinds of algorithm have long been believe to be only an academic curiosity, deprived of practical use since they require a […]
Exploratory Factor Analysis – Exercises
This set of exercises is about exploratory factor analysis. We shall use some basic features of psych package. For quick introduction to exploratory factor analysis and psych package, we recommend this short “how to” guide. You can download the dataset here. The data is fictitious. Answers to the exercises are available here. If you have […]
LASSO regression in R exercises
Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) performs regularization and variable selection on a given model. Depending on the size of the penalty term, LASSO shrinks less relevant predictors to (possibly) zero. Thus, it enables us to consider a more parsimonious model. In this exercise set we will use the glmnet package (package description: here) […]
