Groovy

It would appear that making a rolling list of all my old and newer RapidMiner Tutorials would be helpful for readers. It should be noted that these tutorials and videos were made for differnet versions of RapidMiner (version 5 to 7) and may look a bit old and dated BUT they are still relevant to this day. The functionality of RapidMiner is still the same but the internal organization and look will be different. Most of the operators are the same name but things like the the Time Series plugin have been fully incorporated into RapidMiner Studio now. ...

I was looking through Reddit the other day and came across an interesting post in r/Groovy. The group itself has been relatively dead for a while but sprang to life with a question about using Groovy for Data Science. Granted, Python IS eating the world right now for Data Science with R right behind it and Java still hanging out with all the Big Data stuff. I’ve always liked Groovy because it’s very Python like (high level-ish) but compiles down to byte-code during runtime. It’s multithreaded and concurrent. I know that Python attempts to do this and there are many hackish ways to make it as fast as C, but you have to know how to do it. High performance python is an art form beyond the Data Science world IMHO. ...

For the last two years I’ve been working with the Twython package to build my (R2D2) Twitter Bot. It’s been successful and I’ve learned how to hack Python better than I ever did before. Now I’m setting my sites on building a Twitter Bot using Groovy Script. Why Groovy Script? Groovy is a lot like Python in the sense that it’s a dynamic programming language. It can be used everywhere, easily, because of the JVM. Plus, I always wanted to teach myself Java so I thought this is a good way to get started. ...