Orange Blog

By: Ajda Pretnar, Jun 28, 2019

Orange at 32nd Bled eConference

We held a short workshop covering the basics of Data Science for the participants of the 32nd Bled eConference. We focused on predictive modeling and explorations of predictions.


By: Ajda Pretnar, Jun 3, 2019

Gene Expression Profiles with Line Plot

Line Plot shows profiles of data instances – each instance is a line in the plot and its profile are values across all variables in the data. We show how to explore gene expression profiles.


By: Ajda Pretnar, May 18, 2019

Business Case Studies with Orange

At the latest workshop in Italy we taught the participants how to identify relevant business use cases and how to predict, which employees are most likely to resign in the future.


By: Blaz Zupan, Apr 24, 2019

Orange at GIS Ostrava

In late March 2019, we have been invited to present Orange during a GIS Ostrava conference. We have shown how to work with geospatial data in Orange.


By: Blaz Zupan, Mar 8, 2019

The Changing Status Bar

We are constantly optimizing Orange's look-and-feel. New features in the status bar will simplify the user interface. We are getting rid of the infobox on the top of the control tab, and moving it to the status bar.

Categories: release Status Bar

By: Blaz Zupan, Mar 1, 2019

Single-Cell Data Science for Everyone

We have been in Pavia, Italy, to carry out a five-hour workshop covered both the essentials of data analysis and single cell analytics. The topics included working with marker genes, differential expression analysis, and interpretation of clusters through gene ontology analysis.


By: Ajda Pretnar, Jan 28, 2019

The Mystery of Test & Score

Test & Score widget is used for evaluating model performance, but what do the methods do? We explain cross validation, random sampling, leave one out and cross validation by feature in a few lines.


By: Ajda Pretnar, Jan 4, 2019

How to Abuse p-Values in Correlations

We have all attended Statistics 101, and we know that you can never trust correlation coefficients without looking at p-values to check that these correlations are real, right? So why on Earth doesn’t Orange show them?


By: Ajda Pretnar, Dec 21, 2018

Scatter Plots: the Tour

Scatter Plot has recently been renovated (under the hood and in GUI), so now it is time to present some essential tricks for working with the cool visualization!


By: IRGOLIC, Nov 22, 2018

Orange is Getting Smarter

In the past few months, Orange has been getting smarter and sleeker. Since version 3.15.0, Orange remembers which distinct widgets users like to connect, adjusting the sorting on the widget search menu accordingly. Additionally, there is a new look for the Edit Links window coming soon. Orange recently implemented a basic form of opt-in usage tracking, specifically targeting how users add widgets to the canvas. Word cloud of widget popularity in Orange.