Thanks to everyone at the Chicago R User Group for giving me such a warm welcome for my presentation last night. In my talk, I gave an introduction to Revolution R Open, with a focus on how the checkpoint package makes sharing R code in a reproducible way easy: If you'd like to try out the checkpoint package, it's...
Match.com will bring more love to the planet than anything since Jesus Christ (Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com) Charlie is a brilliant 39 years old mathematician living in Massachusetts....
World wide quantitative easing does not seem to end. I live and work in Japan which has the lowest interest rate.Thanks to Quandl and RStudio, I can easily get the data of...
So recently, I tried to combine Flexible and Elastic Asset Allocation. The operative word being–tried. Essentially, I saw Flexible Asset … Continue reading →
by Joseph Rickert With a membership that spans the entire Bay Area and the ability to hold meetings from San Jose to San Francisco, the Bay Area useR Group...
A Bayes factor (BF) is a statistical index that quantifies the evidence for a hypothesis, compared to an alternative hypothesis (for introductions to Bayes factors, see here, here or...
In a recent article at opensource.com, I offer up some reasons why now is the time to learn R: data scientists are in high demand, R is the natural...
Great news for Shiny and R Markdown enthusiasts! An Interactive Reporting Workshop with Shiny and R Markdown is coming to a city near you. Act fast as only 20...
By Mark Sellors – Senior IT Consultant, UK. In a move that further validates the entire R community, our good friends and colleagues at Revolution Analytics announced their acquisition...
A new release 0.2.12 of RInside is now on CRAN. RInside provides a set of convenience classes which facilitate embedding of R inside of C++ applications and programs,...
This is the third part of the sequence of shopping carts in-depth analysis. We processed initial data in the required format, did the exploratory analysis and started the in-depth analysis...
Version 0.7-3 of rClr (source code also on GitHub), a package to access arbitrary .NET code seamlessly in-process, has just been released. The package was first introduced a year...
Introduction The mapdata R package contains a coastline called worldHires which is contained within a text file with a bit over 2 million lines. Since the coastlineWorldFine dataset in...
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,...
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...
by Norman Matloff 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...
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...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
