Here's an example I featured in my list of 7 Awesome Things about R (awesome thing #3: graphics and data visualization). The Learning R blog features a reproduction of a graphic that recently appeared on Flowing Data. It shows the colors in a box of Crayola crayons: before 1949 there were only 8, but over the years additional colors...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Looking for a Bayésien PhD
I just got this email (yes, in French) looking for a Bayesian ready to work on algorithms:
Dans le cadre de la société Vekia, nous recherchons un Docteur en statistiques bayésiennes pour un poste sur Lille à pourvoir dès que possible.
Vekia est un éditeur de logiciel pour le commerce fondée en 2007 par deux chercheurs (Pierre-Arnaud 
RClimate Script: NINO 3.4 SST Anomaly Trends
This RClimate Script lets users retrieve and plot the weekly NOAA NINO 3.4 SST anomaly data for 1990 to the most recent value. Links to the NOAA data file and my RClimate script are included. Users can run my script with a simple R source() statement. NINO 3.4 SST Anomaly I’ve discussed ENSO and NINO 
Introduction to R webinar today, slides available
Just a quick reminder that I'll be hosting an introductory webinar about R today, The R Project: Data Analysis and Statistical Graphics for the Enterprise. It's at 9AM Pacific, so you might still have time to register for the live session at the link below. Otherwise, if you did catch the live session, you can pick up the slides...
Advanced Graphics in R
Each quarter the UCLA Statistical Consulting Center hosts minicourses twice per week in R and LaTeX. Tonight was my turn to present.
I presented Advanced Graphics in R. This was the same presentation I gave at the LA R Users’ Group in August will a fellow consultant. She and I had trouble coming together to make one presentation, so we...
From the “blogosphere”? Hardly.
I generally skip over “From the Blogosphere”, a (mostly) weekly-summary of one or two blog posts in Nature’s “Authors” section (here is the latest). Why? Well, I’ve always suspected that the title is rather misleading. Now, I have the hard numbers to prove it. My feed reader contains an archive of 128 articles, dating back 
Re-mapping Massachusetts Special election results
I had previously posted maps showing the difference in major party vote share between the 2008 Presidential election and the 2010 special Senate election in Massachusetts. Colleagues and readers of the Revolutions blog had some very insightful criticisms of these maps, in particular that the color scale was over-stating the swing in voter sentiment. I’ve
RClimate Script: Polar Amplification – 2000 to 2009
This RClimate Script lets users retrieve and plot the NASA GISS temperature anomaly data for 2000 to 2009 by latitude zone during the past decade. A link is provided to the NASA GISS data generation query page as well as links to my saved file of the GISS data and my RClimate script that users 
How to combine Google maps and data in R
Every good artist needs a canvas, and when it comes to displaying geographic data placing those data in context -- on a map -- makes all the difference. A new package for R from Markus Loecher, RgoogleMaps, allows you to download a street or satellite map from Google simply by specifying the bounding latitude/longitude coordinates. (You need to sign...
Bayesian courses in København
I received this announcement about two incoming courses given in København by Andrew Lawson:
1) “*An Introduction to Bayesian Disease Mapping*”
A Two-Day Course, April 12.- 13. 2010, University of Southern Denmark
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the area of Bayesian disease mapping in applications to Public Health and Epidemiology:
2) “*Advanced Bayesian Disease Mapping*”
A 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
