Some time back, I started a project on GitHub wherein I would explore the efficacy of financial literacy efforts in the area where I live. This is done with the support of a local non-profit organization. As a first step, I tried to draw a picture of the area at a relatively fine level of 
If you use attach, it is easy to tell if a variable exists. You can simply use exists to check:>attach(df)>exists("varName") TRUEHowever, if you don't use attach (and I find you generally...
I had the pleasure of visiting technology guru Robert Scoble at Rackspace Labs a few weeks ago. We had a great conversation about the Big Data revolution, and how...
Below is an updated version of the image.scale function. In the old version, one had to constantly use additional arguments to suppress axes and their labels. The new version...
Dear R-enthusiastic, I discovered Plotly some days ago, and I was fascinated by it. What is Plotly? Plotly is a service for creating and sharing data visualizations that also...
I have been meaning to write a long post explaining each of the major R projects I am currently working on, but I can't seem to find the time...
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...
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...
Today I want to share another interesting idea contributed by Pierre Chretien. Pierre suggested using Averaged Input Assumptions and Momentum to create reasonably quiet strategy. The averaging techniques are...
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...
An introductory book on Quantitative Finance and R I co-authored with some learned faculty members of the Corvinus University of Budapest (Michael Puhle, Edina Berlinger, Péter Csóka, Dániel...
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...
Admitting to stupidity is part of the learning process. So in the interests of public education, here’s something stupid that I did today. You’re working in the R console....
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 »
