Data cleaning including 1) generating datasets for time-series and case-crossover analyses based on raw hospital records, 2) linking individuals to an areal map, 3) picking out cases living within a buffer of certain size surrounding a site, etc. For more information, please refer to Zhang W,etc. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.08.030>.

An extension package for 'sparklyr' that provides an R interface to
    H2O Sparkling Water machine learning library (see <https://github.com/h2oai/sparkling-water> for more information).

Implements many algorithms for statistical learning on 
  sparse matrices - matrix factorizations, matrix completion, 
  elastic net regressions, factorization machines. 
  Also 'rsparse' enhances 'Matrix' package by providing methods for 
  multithreaded <sparse, dense> matrix products and native slicing of 
  the sparse matrices in Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) format.
  List of the algorithms for regression problems:
  1) Elastic Net regression via Follow The Proximally-Regularized Leader (FTRL) 
  Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), as per McMahan et al(, <doi:10.1145/2487575.2488200>)
  2) Factorization Machines via SGD, as per Rendle (2010, <doi:10.1109/ICDM.2010.127>)
  List of algorithms for matrix factorization and matrix completion:
  1) Weighted Regularized Matrix Factorization (WRMF) via Alternating Least 
  Squares (ALS) - paper by Hu, Koren, Volinsky (2008, <doi:10.1109/ICDM.2008.22>)
  2) Maximum-Margin Matrix Factorization via ALS, paper by Rennie, Srebro 
  (2005, <doi:10.1145/1102351.1102441>)
  3) Fast Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Soft-Thresholded SVD, 
  Soft-Impute matrix completion via ALS - paper by Hastie, Mazumder 
  et al. (2014, <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1410.2596>)
  4) Linear-Flow matrix factorization, from 'Practical linear models for 
  large-scale one-class collaborative filtering' by Sedhain, Bui, Kawale et al 
  (2016, ISBN:978-1-57735-770-4)
  5) GlobalVectors (GloVe) matrix factorization via SGD, paper by Pennington, 
  Socher, Manning (2014, <https://aclanthology.org/D14-1162/>)
  Package is reasonably fast and memory efficient - it allows to work with large
  datasets - millions of rows and millions of columns. This is particularly useful 
  for practitioners working on recommender systems.