So my first attempt to sort out the career of Michael Caine via parsing of HTML data was a wash. I'm going to try this again, using Wikipedia. They've got a nice, easy list of his films in an HTML table. Reading an HTML table into R is incredibly easy. The XML library has a 
It is common for researchers to be concerned about unobserved effects being correlated with observed explanatory variables.For instance, if we were curious about the effect of meditation on emotional...
by Joseph Rickert R user groups are thriving. By our count of events listed on Revolution Analytics' Community Calendar, there were about 441 face-to-face R meetups worldwide in 2013;...
tl,dr: If you want to be contacted for freelance R work, edit this list https://github.com/isomorphisms/hire-an-r-programmer/blob/master/README.md. Background/Problem: I was looking for a list of R-programming freelancers and realised...
I recently encountered some functionality in R which most of you might already know. Nevertheless, I want to share it here, because it might come in handy for those...
A guest post by Jeff Hemsley, who has co-authored with Karine Nahon a new book titled Going Viral. ————————- In Going Viral (Polity Press, 2013) we explore the topic of virality,...
(This article was first published on Jeromy Anglim's Blog: Psychology and Statistics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The following post replicates some of the standard output you might get...
Coursera – an online education startup – has rapidly expanded its curriculum of statistics and data analysis courses. Today, there are already 33 modules directly linked to the field,...
In a live webinar today hosted by Alteryx, five industry experts shared 14 analytics predictions for 2014. The panel included Paul Ross (Alteryx), Charles Zedlewski (Cloudera), Rick Schultz (Alteryx),...
We have written a bit on sample size for common events. We would like to extend this analysis to rare events. In web marketing and a lot of other...
Consumers will not complete long questionnaires, so marketing research must get the most it can from every item. In this post, we look into the toolbox of R packages...
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Shiny Server version 0.4 as well as the availability of a beta version of Shiny Server Professional Edition. Shiny Server is a...
We’re pleased to announce that the final version of RStudio v0.98 is available for download now. Highlights of the new release include: An interactive debugger for R that is tightly integrated...
I’ve been doodling some chart in R/ggplot using geom_text() to generate a labelled scatterplot. The chart actually builds up several layers using different datasets, so it’s not obvious how...
digest version 0.6.4 is now on CRAN and in Debian. This is a pure maintenance release which should help with a build issue affecting users on Solaris. CRANberries provides the usual summary of changes...
An edited book titled Data Mining Applications with R will be on market soon, which features 15 real-word applications on data mining with R. A preview of the book...
Following the very positive feedback that Andreas and I have received from delegates of the first R in Insurance conference in July of this year, we...
Need a Hanukkah or Christmas gift for an R analyst? You could do loads worse than Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R by Bivand, Pebesma and Gomez-Rubio. I don't...
R can do a lot of really amazing things, but to use just about any of R's many features you need to first import your data and get it...
This is a lecture post for my students in the CUNY MS Data Analytics program. In this series of lectures …Continue reading »
I love to have fun with R and Twitter...there are a lot of cool things that you can do with it...so I just thought of having a small Twitter...
Very shortly, I'll upload the newest release of BCEA, my R package to post-process the output of a (Bayesian) health economic model and produce systematic summaries (such as graphs...
I have been playing around with MongoDB quite a bit over the last few months. Because I am much better at coding in R, I decided to write up...
In the last post I showed how to use Laplace approximation to quickly (but dirtily) approximate the posterior distribution of a Bayesian model coded in R. This is...
After my last post I have recurringly received two questions: (a) is it worthwhile to analyze GNU R speed in simulations and (b) how would simulation speed compare between...
We’re pleased to announce two upcoming in-person training opportunities: Advanced R programming. SF, Dec 16-17. Learn the most important topics from advanced R programming in person. One day one,...
P-values seem to be the bane of a statistician’s existence. I’ve seen situations where entire narratives are written without p-values and only provide the effects. It can also be...
The plyr package uses a couple of small C functions to optimise a number of particularly bad bottlenecks. Recently, two functions were converted to C++. This was mostly...
This post is a more in depth analysis of Quandl futures data vs. Bloomberg data. Since my last post Quandl has updated its futures database to 200+ contracts from...
