Data Visualization: Empowering Decision Makers
Time and again, across Red Oak Strategic’s corporate engagements and particularly in the Financial Services industry, our team has found that key stakeholders often lack insight...
Draw Rotatable 3D Charts in R Shiny with Highcharts and JQuery
While it might be tempting to liven up a report or presentation with a few 3D graphs, two-dimensional representation is generally better when numbers are the primary...
Customizing Click Events: How to Capture and Store Data from JavaScript Objects in R Variables
Visualizations capable of launching detail views can add value to a data analyst’s user experience. Programming in this kind of...
Red Oak Strategic - Time Series Forecasting with Machine Learning
Introduction
This post will demonstrate how to use machine learning to forecast time series data. The data set is from a recent Kaggle competition to predict retail sales.
Blockchain from a Data Science Perspective
Imagine someone were to mint a new coin and give it to you. You then buy something and give it to someone else, and so on. Every time this coin changes hands, a record of the...
Red Oak Strategic - Exploratory Data Analysis: CDC's 500 Cities Project
Introduction
In Part 1, we built an application to geographically explore the 500 Cities Project dataset from the CDC. In this post, we will demonstrate other exploratory data...
Red Oak Strategic - Data Processing with Regular Expressions in Python 3
Applying Regular Expressions
This is a tutorial on processing data with regular expressions using Python. It is also a reflection on the advantages and trade-offs that come...
Red Oak Strategic - How To: Add & Execute Python Excel Macro
Frequently, we encounter projects that require the combined use of Python, Microsoft Excel and some external databases that can only be accessed via Excel, or use cases that...
Red Oak Strategic - How To: Apply Family of R Functions
The apply function in R is used as a fast and simple alternative to loops. It allows users to apply a function to a vector or data frame by row, by column or to the entire data...