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 own work as a way to easily provide commentary on an actual dataset analysis. Yihui has proposed writing papers in markdown and posting them to a blog as a way...
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...
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 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...
Earlier this weekend (Dec. 7, 2013), mnlogit was released on CRAN by Wang Zhiyu and Asad Hasan ([email protected]) claiming that mnlogit uses “parallel C++ library to achieve fast computation of...
Tim Hortons Density Inspired by this post, I wanted to examine the locations and density of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada. Using Stats Canada data, each census tract is...
Following a now well-established pattern, let me (re)warn (the few) unwary ‘Og readers that the links to Amazon.com and to Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to...
Displaying large regression models without overwhelming the reader can be challenging. I believe that forestplots are amazingly well suited for this. The plot gives a quick understanding of the...
Fukushima is still a topic which gets headlines, and somewhere in a comment was a link to actual and historical radiation data: Fukushima prefecture radioactivity measurement map. It...
I saved the data from the last post which shows the percentage of Republican voters in each county. In addition to that column, I also have figures from the...
R Interface for Teaching Kaitlin Thaney asked on Twitter last week about using Ramnath Vaidyanathan's new interactive R notebook 1 2 for teaching. Liking the look of...
I spent yesterday at the very enjoyable Big Data Summit held at the University of Illinois Research Park at the edge of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. campus. My (short) presentation was...
Carrying on from the last post, I'm going to take a closer look at election results for the 2012 US presidential election in North Carolina. This state's 15 electoral...
The problem with puzzles is that you keep it in your head for days, until you find an answer. Or at least some ideas about a possible answer. This...
You’ve probably heard about the t distribution. One good use for this distribution is as an alternative to the normal distribution that is more robust against outliers. But where...
Dear diary, I spent a lot of my summer in the lab, and my fall has been mostly data analysis, with a little writing and a couple of courses...
Using Samatha So I decided to try out David Springates Samatha package for statically building this blog. If you decide to use it, be warned, right now it is a...
Mebane Faber posted another interesting blog post: Building a Simple Sector Rotation on Momentum and Trend that caught my interest. Today I want to show how you can test...
