In the last quarter of last year, I started paying more attention to the use of custom grid lines and line guides in charts I’ve been developing for the Wrangling F1 Data With R book. The use of line guides was in part inspired by canopy views from within the cockpit of one of the 
Coordinates: 2014 September 15-17 in the London borough of #rstats. 15th, evening I had just the right number of R bugs so that I could walk to the drinks and...
by Joseph Rickert In a recent post, where I presented some R related highlights of November's H20 World conference, I singled out and described talks by Trevor Hastie and...
The crypto-currency Bitcoin and the way it generates “trustless trust” is one of the hottest topics when it comes to technological innovations right now. The way Bitcoin transactions always...
Barr et al's well-intentioned paper is starting to lead to some seriously weird behavior in psycholinguistics! As a reviewer, I'm seeing submissions where people take the following approach:1. Try...
What I like most about the R and Python developer and user communities, is their incredible openness and generosity. One of the finest examples in the past year was...
Wow – what a headline … okay, I admit it’s phrased quite sensational given that it anticipates just one possible interpretation of increasingly more births around summer / autumn...
Happy New Year everyone! Another year has come and gone, and this blog has just entered its seventh year of publication. (Once again, I missed the anniversary back on...
So after reading the last post, the author of quantstrat had mostly critical feedback, mostly of the philosophy that prompted … Continue reading →
R was recently the subject of a feature article in the prestigious science magazine Nature: Programming tools: Adventures with R. Besides being free, R is popular partly because it...
This post isn't anything new in terms of analysis, but just a cooler look at a previous post. I looked at board members of large companies in a previous...
Release 0.6.8 of digest package is now on CRAN and will get to Debian shortly. This release opens the door to also providing the digest functionality at the C...
I’ve been tracking The Popularity of Data Analysis Software for many years now, and a clear trend is the decline of the market share of the bigger analytics firms, notably...
Plotly is a platform for making, editing, and sharing graphs. If you are used to making plots with ggplot2, you can call ggplotly() to make your plots...
For Christmas, I generally want electronic widgets, but after six months of development, all I wanted this Christmas was htmlwidgets, and Santa RStudio/jj,joe,yihui and Santa Ramnath delivered early with...
by Emilio L. Cano The VI Spanish R Users Conference took place on October 23 and 24 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It was a two-day event with a...
“The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed.”Hunter S. Thompson, Hey Rube Column, November 9, 2004I have...
OpenCPU server version 1.4.6 has been released to launchpad, OBS, and dockerhub (more about docker in a future blog post). I also updated...
Here are the most popular entries for 2014: 17 equations that changed the World (#2) 995 Le Monde puzzle 992 “simply start over and build something better” 991...
Future-proofing is an important concept when designing automated reports. One thing that can get out of hand over time is when you accumulate so many periods of data that...
I'll bet that in the very first "descriptive statistics" course you ever took, you learned about measures of "central tendency" for samples or populations, and these measures included...
I missed this when it was announced back on September 29, but R won a 2014 Bossie Award for best open-source big-data tools from InfoWorld (see entry number 5):...
Even though it’s still at version 0.4, the ggvis package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see...
Hey Mac OSX users with Java 1.8 installed. Did R just request a Java 1.6 installation and then promptly crash your session? If so, read on… The Problem A...
A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which provides a modern, scalable and...
A guest article by Asher Raz, PhD, CareerHarmony Sometimes, data of subjects are recorded on a server (e.g. SQL server) as string data records for each subject. In some...
Conrad produced another minor release 4.600 of Armadillo. As before, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release(s) of his pre-release(s), and tested a pre-release as well as the...
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