Jared Lander, the organizer of NYHackR and general data science guru, joined us to talk about the landscape of AI techniques, how deep learning fits into that landscape, and why you might consider using R for ML/AI.

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Featuring:

• Jared Lander – Website, GitHub, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Lander Analytics
• New York R Conference
• New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup

Books

• “R for Everyone” by Jared Lander
• “Applied Predictive Modeling” by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson
• “Deep Learning with R” by Francois Chollet and J. J. Allaire

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