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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2014–2018
peak thread · 35 comments
163 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-02-04
122 pts

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2007–2026

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The R portion needs some serious filling - for starters: you include the Julia wrapper to glmnet, which was originally implemented in R. glmnet - lasso/ridge/elastic net glm models. e1071 - SVM classifiers. randomForest - random forest classifiers. mixOmics - a good collection of component-based approaches (PCA, ICA, PLS, etc. includes sparse variants of all of the above is feature selection is required). caret - similar to Java's Weka.

For those of you wondering about the "awesome list" phenomenon (as I was). It is a git repository that is marked as being a curated list of awesome things. Here is a manifesto: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/awesome.... Edit: Don't know if any other infrastructure has sprung up around it. Maybe an awesome list of awesome tools?

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
292

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Total comments
45

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