The 2nd R in Insurance conference took place last Monday, 14 July, at Cass Business School London. This one-day conference focused once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R. Topics covered included reserving, pricing, loss...
Statistics has many canonical data sets. For classification statistics, we have the Fisher's iris data. For Big Data statistics, the canonical data set used in many examples is the...
Three weeks ago, I’d commented on the first two days of the UseR 2014 conference. I’m finally back to talk about the second half. Dirk Eddelbuettel on Rcpp Dirk...
Geomorph users,We have uploaded version 2.1.1 to CRAN. The windows and mac binaries have been compiled and the tarball is available.Version 2.1.1 contains small updates and fixes a few small bugs.New...
We’ve added a new section of articles to the Shiny Development Center. These articles explain how to create interactive documents with Shiny and R Markdown. You’ll learn how to...
I am trying to have better workflows to ensure data quality and two important things for me are first, scripting as much as posible the data manipulation process, and...
In this post, I show how to estimate players’ week-to-week variability in fantasy football points. In a prior post, I demonstrated how to calculate a player’s risk level, as...
So, the FIFA World Cup is over. Germany won. Yay!Now with so much less football matches to watch, I tried the awesome new R package rCharts by Ramnath Vaidyanathan. In...
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A recent fascinating post by Analysis at Large got me interested in naming trends analysis. The original post used Social Security data by state to map out the more...
September last year I made a post using the shootingtracker data. It is attempted in shootingtracker to register all shootings with at least four victims, be they wounded or dead....
Well folks, another new year’s resolution down the drain. I was initially shooting for a post each month for 2014. More projects came. Plates were full. Plates were emptied....
I was browsing the Social Security Administration’s website and found a link for the open government initiative (http://www.ssa.gov/open/data/). There seems to be a fair amount of interesting data here,...
Just a quick heads-up that I'll be presenting with Neera Talbert (VP Professional Services, Revolution Analytics) in a free webinar on Tuesday, July 22 on Applications in R: Success...
A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world...
18.07.2014 A very time expensive process is the documentation of software you created yourself. I was finally able to update and improve the documentation for Bio7 and the embedded...
The (relatively) recent upgrade of rNOMADS to version 2.0.0 allows cross platform support for downloading atmospheric and oceanic operational model data into R via the GrADS-DODS system. However, users...
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by Joseph Rickert Broadly speaking, a meta-analysis is any statistical analysis that attempts to combine the results of several individual studies. The term was apparently coined by statistician Gene...
An interesting story appeared over the weekend about a popular NYC restaurant realizing that, although the number of customers they served on a daily basis is about the...
RStudio has recently announced a series of free webinars open to the public. The first of these seminars is given by Hadley Wickham, Rice University Professor, RStudio Chief Scientist,...
I’m finalizing a paper presentation for the ABCP meeting, where I explore poor polling forecast in local elections in Brazil. I drew upon the Jackman (2005)’s paper “Pooling the...
I’m often typing the same bits of code over and over. Those bits of code really should be made into functions. For example, I’m still using base graphics. (ggplot2...
For my paper on the impact of social insurance on the dynamics of conflict in India, I use some new remote sensed weather data. The data comes from the Tropical Rainfall...
The RStudio team recently rolled out new capabilities in RStudio, shiny, ggvis, dplyr, knitr, R Markdown, and packrat. The “Essential Tools for Data Science with R” free webinar series is...
This guide is intended to aid any R and Linux user who desires a threaded version of BLAS. In particular I hope this will allow other grad students, who...
Recently I have coauthored a new localsolver package that can be used to solve large scale optimization problems from R. It is a wrapper around commercial solver that is free...
I started down the color path with yesterday’s post Palette of Colors from Image %>% ggplot2 %>% rCharts + dimple.js. Although R has lots of tools, such as RColorBrewer...
A common theme over the last few decades was that we could afford to simply sit back and let computer (hardware) engineers take care of increases in computing speed thanks to...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
