As a bit of weekend fun, I decided to briefly look into the #rstats twitter data that Stephen Turner collected and made available (thanks!). Essentially, this data set contains some basic information about over 100,000 tweets that contain the hashtag… Continue reading →
A new release of RcppEigen is now on CRAN and in Debian. It synchronizes the Eigen code with the 3.2.4 upstream release, and updates the RcppEigen.package.skeleton() package creation...
In my previous post, I discussed how to use OpenStreetMaps (and standard plotting functions of R) to visualize John Snow’s dataset. But it is also possible to use Google...
While I was working for a training on data visualization, I wanted to get a nice visual for John Snow’s cholera dataset. This dataset can actually be found in...
This meetup will be hosted by Google and we’ll have Peter Lipman and Pete Meyer...
The bell rings - time to go to practice. Jarnell Stokes heads over to the gym, changes, and starts warming up with his teammates. It's his Junior year in high school....
It’s a folk theorem I sometimes hear from colleagues and clients: that you must balance the class prevalence before training a classifier. Certainly, I believe that classification tends to...
In 1998 John M. Chambers (now a member of R-core) won the ACM Software System Award for the S Language, which (in the words of the committee) "forever altered...
A new Armadillo release 4.650.1 was released by Conrad a few days ago. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards...
A new release of the js package has made it’s way to CRAN. This version adds support for compiling Coffee Script....
This is to continue on the topic of using the melt/cast functions in reshape to convert between long and wide format of data frame. Here is the example I found...
Thanks to a nice post by Meghan Duffy on the Dynamic Ecology blog (How do you make figures?), we have some empirical evidence that many figures made in...
Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple statistical properties, yet appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were
RStudio is excited to announce the general availability (GA) of shinyapps.io. Shinyapps.io is an easy to use, secure, and scalable hosted service already being used by thousands of professionals...
Aggregation splits data into subsets, computes summary statistics on each subset, and reports the results in a conveniently summarized form. The aggregate function is one of the most capable...
This post will demonstrate a downside to rankings-based strategies, particularly when using data of a questionable quality (which, unless one … Continue reading →
by Joseph Rickert Distcomp, a new R package available on GitHub from a group of Stanford researchers has the potential to significantly advance the practice of collaborative computing with...
“The amount of information available in the internet grows every day” thank you captain Obvious! by now even my grandma is aware of that!. Actually, the internet...
As promised from my recent article, here's my tutorial on how to layout and design an infographic in R. This article will serve as a template for more infographic...
This article may also be found on RPubs: http://rpubs.com/hughes/63269 In the list of worst to best way to test for effect in GLMM the list on http://glmm.wikidot.com/faq state that...
RMySQL version 0.10.2 has appeared on CRAN. This is a maintenance release to streamline the build process on various platforms. Most importantly,...
It was a pleasure to appear live on theCUBE last week while attending the Strata conference. In my interview with Jeff Kelly and John Furrier, I talked about the...
Win-Vector LLC’s Nina Zumel and John Mount are proud to announce their new data science video course Introduction to Data Science is now available on Udemy. We designed the...
by Marek Gagolewski, Maciej Bartoszuk, Anna Cena, and Jan Lasek (Rexamine). Introduction In a recent blog post we explained how we managed to set up a working Hadoop environment...
Dici che il fiume trova la via al mare e come il fiume giungerai a me (Miss Sarajevo, U2) One way to calculate approximately the area of some place is to...
Consider the following dataset, with (only) ten points x=c(.4,.55,.65,.9,.1,.35,.5,.15,.2,.85) y=c(.85,.95,.8,.87,.5,.55,.5,.2,.1,.3) plot(x,y,pch=19,cex=2) We want to get – say – two clusters. Or more specifically, two sets of observations, each of...
RStudio’s data viewer provides a quick way to look at the contents of data frames and other column-based data in your R environment. You invoke it by clicking on...
by Andrie de Vries R has strong support for parallel programming, both in base R and additional CRAN packages. For example, we have previously written about foreach and parallel...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
