I don't know how often Michael Caine appeared in a Shakespearean work, but I'm sure that he has and I'm sure that he was excellent. A bit pressed for time today, so just a simple word cloud featuring the full text of King Lear. I found the text at a website that I presume is 
Tomorrow at 11AM Pacific Time, Revolution Analytics' Chief Scientist Mario Inchiosa will present a live webinar on Scalable Cross-Platform R-Based Predictive Analytics. Here's the abstract: In this webinar we...
If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in January and April. If you...
It was several time I was thinking about developing a web application with R and Shiny. In these days I realize my first application with Shiny. You can find...
How often is someone nominated for an academy award? Who has been nominated most often? Is there a difference between leading and supporting roles? Important questions. To answer them,...
Creating custom CDF for Affy chips in R / Bioconductor What? For those who don't know, CDF files are chip definition format files that define which probes belong to which probesets,...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users: A recap of the Strata Hadoop World conference, including presentations from Monsanto...
Measuring the Power of Product Features to Generate Increased DemandProduct management requires more from feature prioritization than a rank ordering. It is simply not enough to know the "best"...
Writing papers using R Markdown I have been watching the activity in RStudio and knitr for a while, and have even been using Rmd (R markdown) files in my...
A new Armadillo release 3.930 came out a few days ago, with a very nice set of changes (see below). I rolled this into RcppArmadillo 0.3.930.0. However, one of...
Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 13 December 2013. We are delighted to welcome:
Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan: Introduction to
Version 0.3 of my R package of miscellaneous code has been released, this time with substantial contributions from Jason Becker via GitHub. Progress continues toward the ultimate goal for eeptools to...
This will be the third time I've tried to write this post. I had started out presuming that I would uncover something fascinating about applying Bayesian inference to a...
(This article was first published on Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I found out about HivePlots this past summer, and...
This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures …Continue reading »
GoalBring consistency and transparency to the analyses of publicly available Tornado datasets using an R-based open source analysis.IssuesTornado data available from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center and other government agencies...
Sometimes intentionally writing bad code can be a lot of fun. Now here, when I say "bad", I mean something that's functional but completely incoherent to anything but the...
When I was working as a digital analytics consultant, no question quite had the ability to cause belly laughs AND angst as, “Can you send me an updated copy...
We’re pleased to announce a new version of roxygen2. The biggest news is that you can painlessly document your S4 classes, S4 methods and RC classes with roxygen2 –...
Course description This two-day course provides an overview of several advanced R topics, such as: R environments, object oriented programming, functional programming and debugging. Who should attend this course...
Storing package data in custom environments If you do R package development, sometimes you want to be able to store variables specific to your package, without cluttering up the users...
Below are two functions for producing stacked area plots. The first is the more typical approach where sequential series are stacked on top of another (function: plot.stacked), while the...
The ubiquitous LAPACK library provides several implementations for the singular-value decomposition (SVD). We will illustrate possible speed gains from using the divide-and-conquer method by comparing it to the...
the authoritative source for evaluating educational achievement across nations, the program(me) for international student assessment ranks the math, science, and reading skills of 15-year-olds in more than sixty countries. ...
R is great at accomplishing complex tasks. Doing simple things with R though takes some effort. Consider the simple task of producing summary statistics for continuous variables over some...
Have you ever run into a bug that, no matter how careful you are trying to reproduce it, it only happens sometimes? And then, you think you've got it, and finally...
We discuss dealing with large class imbalances in Chapter 16. One approach is to sample the training set to coerce a more balanced class distribution. We discuss down-sampling: sample the...
I recently was reading the book “Functional Art” and came across the work of Stefanie Posavec. Her Sentence Drawings (click here to see and click here to learn) caught...
