by Joseph Rickert R user group activity is still on the rise. The following plot of the number of R user group meetings listed on Revolution Analytics' Community Calendar over the most recent 114 weeks shows a slight to upward trend along with a couple of annual cycles. Predictably, meetings trail off in the summer months and again late...
We will start off this first section of Part 3 with a brief introduction of the plotting system ggplot2. Then, with the attention focused mainly on the syntax, we...
Given all the attention the internet has given to the colors of this dress, I thought it would be interesting to look at the capabilities for extracting colors in...
I’m pleased to announced that the new haven package is now available on CRAN. Haven makes it easy to read data from SAS, SPSS and Stata. Haven has the...
What is DataFest? DataFest is a team competition, where a team of up to 5...
Data Science has its own language. So, if you want to have at least a slight chance of surviving in the enterprise world of tomorrow -with its obsessive focus...
A modular Rmarkdown workbook in action I’m now using a properly modular Rmarkdown workbook, and really quite chuffed with it! I’ve seen discussion of electronic...
By Richard Pugh – Commercial Director, (UK). As the importance of using analytics to drive decision making continues to grow at pace, so too does the need to make...
The paper Analysis of the Linux Kernel Evolution Using Code Clone Coverage analysed 136 versions of Linux (from 1.0 to 2.6.18.3) and calculated the amount of source code that...
JASP is an interesting project. It is based on R with additional facilities and functions such as automatic table generation. There appears to be an R package that provide...
In the February 2015 edition of The Journal of Finance, a well known academic paper, “The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift”, was finally published, almost 4 years after the working paper...
In my simulation classes, we talk about how to generate random numbers. One of the techniques we talk about is the Linear Congruential Generator (LCG). Starting with a seed,...
by Matt Sundquist co-founder of Plotly Domino's new R Notebook and Plotly's R API let you code, make interactive R and ggplot2 graphs, and collaborate entirely online. Here is...
The R Project has once again been selected as a mentoring organization for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). If you're not familiar with...
A Sharp Sight Labs reader (and now student), Jason P. recently started learning data science. He has a background in data analysis (primarily with Excel and related tools in...
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 6 March 2014 and we have an exciting agenda with two talks, followed...
We will start, in our Data Science course, to discuss classification techniques (in the context of supervised models). Consider the following case, with 10 points, and two classes (red...
For the newcomers; scheduleR is a framework to deploy/schedule R tasks, reports and Shiny apps. The tool has an integrated logging and notification system to ease the maintenance...
Computerworld's Sharon Machlis has done a great service for the R community — and R especially novices — by creating the on-line Beginner's Guide to R. You can read...
The APS Observer has just published a profile of JASP, a graphical user interface designed to make statistics easier. It includes Bayesian procedures by means of the R and...
Last night I spotted this tweet about the R package TSclust. Thank you Pablo and Jose for #TSclust - time series clustering package in #rstats ! http://t.co/GBQtQnQ8Lr— Pasha...
Despite believing we can treat anything we can represent in digital form as “data”, I’m still pretty flakey on understanding what sorts of analysis we can easily do with...
This is a guest post by Ben Ubah. The field of electric power systems engineering relies heavily on computer simulations for analysis because of its nature. These computer simulations aid...
Romeo, Juliet, balcony in silhouette, makin o’s with her cigarette, it’s juliet (Flapper Girl, The Lumineers) Two weeks ago I published this post for which designed two different visualizations. At the end,...
In collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio’s teaching specialist, DataCamp has developed a new interactive course to facilitate reproducible reporting of your R analyses. R Markdown enables you to generate...
This is the first post I’ve written in a while. I have been somewhat radio silent on social media, but I’m jumping back in. Now, I work with brain...
A few weeks ago we introduced the drat package. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages....
Since I drive quite a lot, I have some interest in getting the most km out every Euro spent on fuel. One thing to change is the fuel. The...
My R/Bioconductor package, DOSE, published in Bioinformatics. Summary: Disease ontology (DO) annotates human genes in the context of disease. DO is important annotation in translating molecular findings from high-throughput data...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
