There are quite a few ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash. This post examines the many ways you can do this. When preparing scripts that will run in bash, it’s often critical to ...

A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

This appendix provides an example on how to apply the k-prototypes clustering algorithm in R, which is an open-source programming language that is mainly used for data processing and statistical ...

Variables often look like $var, but they also look like $1, $*, $? and $$. Let's take a look at what all these $ values can tell you. A lot of important values are ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so ...

Classifying a variable as a particular type of data is important when considering how to present the data. Data can be presented in a number of ways, which depends on the type of variable and the uses ...