The OptimalBI team loves open source and is also mad about data. Alison wrote a blog on Open source datasets already, and because there's more options out there, I thought I would give you some more places to get open data from for your various data needs. I have...
When you ventured out to the supermarket during lockdown, I bet you noticed waaaay less traffic on the roads. I live in the Wellington CBD, and it was really weird walking around with no people, no traffic for weeks. It got me wondering about the data; Thankfully...
This week we welcome Guest Blogger, Bill Grant from the AllGo Analytics Limited. Bill is an experienced data professional with a new business focused on performing data analytics for small and medium-sized business. Take it away Bill … FACT SHEET 1: What is Market...
This is the first in a series of blogs about me learning to use RapidMiner with Shaun McGirr who is one of OptimalBI's Analytical Modellers and a RapidMiner expert. What is my goal? As OptimalBI's community manager I spend a lot of time and effort on Twitter sharing...
The R 3.1.2 console running inside RapidMiner Studio 6.2! Update: RapidMiner have changed the way they do R integration. You can read about how to install the new way in this post: https://optimalbi.com/blog/2015/08/13/improved-rapidminer-and-r-integration-is-here/...
This week I've been putting RapidMiner Server through its paces to prove capability for a potential customer. RapidMiner Server allows you to offload heavy processing loads from your client PC to more capable hardware. We run it on the AWS cloud as part of our...
When you install RapidMiner Server it automatically installs a repository inside the database of your choice. And the choices are (in RapidMiner Server 6.x): MySQl Postgres Oracle Microsoft Sql Server Ingres The repository holds all the metadata, config etc for your...