IntroductionIn case you've been living under a rock, there's been a lot of chatter in the financial world late about the price of oil going down. Way, way, down. So much so that the Bank of Canada cut interest rates. What crazy times are these we live in? I thought gas was only going to...
Just a warning: double check your return types in R, especially when using different modeling packages. We consider ourselves pretty familiar with R. We have years of experience, many...
We released googleVis version 0.5.8 on CRAN last week. The update is a maintenance release for the forthcoming release of R 3.2.0. Screen shot of some of the Google...
Over and over, when talking with people who are starting to learn data science, there’s a frustration that comes up: I don’t know which programming language to start with.”...
Lately I have been involved in organising forecasting competition for undergraduate students. The obvious goal is to find someone with forecasting power who would potentially be interested in internship...
On Cross Validated, I had a rather extended discussion with a user about a probability density as I thought it could be decomposed in two manageable conditionals and simulated...
A new release 0.13.1 of matrixStats is now on CRAN. The source code is available on GitHub. What does it do? The matrixStats package provides highly...
There was a lot of news coverage on Friday and over the weekend about the news that Microsoft will acquire Revolution Analytics. Here are some links to just a...
Some may have seen a twitter post about spurious correlations that myself and others mentioned on twitter. Basically this was a joke about how correlation can be found in many...
From the "statistician humour" department, today's xkcd cartoon will ring a bell for anyone who's ever published (or read!) a scientific article including a P-value for a statistical test:...
If the thought of a nice Chianti with that breakfast croissant is not that appealing, then I have made by point: occasion shapes consumption. Our tastes have been fashioned...
This is the bimonthly R Jobs post (for 2015-01-26), based on the R-bloggers’ sister website: R-users.com. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from the R community, please visit this link...
By Mark Sellors – Senior IT Consultant, UK It’s been a few months now since I presented on the ways in which Mango are using Docker at EARL 2014...
R is full of things that make "real programmers" (I dislike this term) turn their noses up in disgust. One of my favorites is the dump() function. It is...odd....
The latest release of the stringdist package for approximate text matching has two performance-enhancing novelties. First of all, encoding conversion got a lot faster since this is now done...
When it comes to the NBA draft, experts tend to argue about a number of things: at which position will a player be selected? what is the best draft class ever? etc…...
Introduction The ocedata R package has a dataset named levitus, which stores sea-surface temperature and salinity. Today, the development version of ocedata (available at github) was updated from the...
Conrad put up a maintenance release 4.600.4 of Armadillo a few days ago. As in the past, we tested this with number of pre-releases and test builds...
Last week, I attended a Tokyo-based Statistical Software R meetup named “TokyoR #45” held on Jan 17 at VOYAGE GROUP office in Shibuya, Tokyo. Almost all presentations were given...
I was reading a statistics book the other day. I am at the beginning. In this section I read '(we) report results as odds ratios, which is more intuitive'....
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Jay & I cover dashboards in Chapter 10 of Data-Driven Security (the book) but have barely mentioned them on the blog. That’s about to change with a new...
So, Harry Long came out with a new strategy on SeekingAlpha involving some usual mix of SPXL (3x leveraged SPY), … Continue reading →
A new release 0.11.4 of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R, and an updated Debian package will be uploaded in due...
A new version of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. This package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using our Rcpp package. This follows on the heels...
A new version of RcppAnnoy is now on CRAN. RcppAnnoy wraps the small, fast, and lightweight C++ template header library Annoy written by Erik Bernhardsson for use at...
You’ve heard that graphics processing units — GPUs — can bring big increases in computational speed. While GPUs cannot speed up work in every application, the fact is that...
I'm excited about Microsoft acquiring Revolution R. Microsoft has created business friendly tools for many decades and this is a great opportunity for them to bring the power of...
I’ve now resurrected the collection of research journals that I follow, and set it up as a shared collection in feedly. So anyone can easily subscribe to all of the...
With today's announcement that Microsoft will acquire Revolution Analytics, it is worthwhile to consider the commercial support that has existed in different forms throughout the history of this open source...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
