Quick to run, free and ephemeral RStudio instance on Gitpod
Triggered by an assignment my son had to do for one of his university courses – and given the fairly light weight laptop we have him work with – …
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Node JS application running on GraalVM – interoperating with Java, Python, R and more
When you install GraalVM, one of the things you get is a Node runtime environment (GraalVM 19.2.1 is based on Node 10.16.3 – with support for the core Node …
Python application running on GraalVM and Polyglotting with JavaScript, R, Ruby and Java
GraalVM is among other things a polyglot language runtime. It can run applications written in many languages – JVM languages like Java, Scala, Groovy and Kotlin as well as …
Running Reactive Spring Boot on GraalVM in Docker
GraalVM is an open source polyglot VM which makes it easy to mix and match different languages such as Java, Javascript and R. It has the ability (with some …
R and the Oracle database: Using dplyr / dbplyr with ROracle on Windows 10
R uses data extensively. Data often resides in a database. In this blog I will describe installing and using dplyr, dbplyr and ROracle on Windows 10 to access data …
R: Utilizing multiple CPUs
R is a great piece of software to perform statistical analyses. Computing power can however be a limitation. R by default uses only a single CPU. In almost every …
Machine learning: Getting started with random forests in R
According to Gartner, machine learning is on top of the hype cycle at the peak of inflated expectations. There is a lot of misunderstanding about what machine learning actually …
Talk of the Town at Oracle OpenWorld 2016: Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics
Talk of the town during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 definitely included the term Machine Learning. Machine learning was mentioned in every other session it seemed. Sometimes fully justified – and …
Spark with a K – how Apache Spark is omnipresent at Oracle OpenWorld 2016
Apache Spark made numerous appearances in many different sessions during Oracle OpenWorld 2016. It is clear that Oracle is very much embracing and leveraging and endorsing Spark at various …