For the last two cycles I’ve done some simple regression analysis of the informal vote. I saw Possum have his go at it, using a specification that is virtually the same as what I’ve run in the past (2007, 2004). The 2010 edition follows. As usual, electorate-level informality in House of Reps voting increases with
Monthly Archives: August 2010
How Safe is Your Money?
The FDIC regularly publishes a Failed Bank List and related statistics. This post uses data in the original XLS from the FDIC web site which is formatted for human consumption to produce the charts below using R. Note that 2010 data be...
Almost There
It’s been a long wait, but it’s almost over… Ever felt like you started a term paper over and over? Never really getting the mojo to finish it? That’s how I felt creating an ubuntu package for rApache. They should be available in a few hours on...
Portfolio Cycle Charts
(This article was first published on Rmetrics blogs, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: Rmetrics blogs. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation), programming (RStudio, Sweave, LaTeX, SQL, Eclipse, git, hadoop, Web...
R and Analytics: A good career choice
According to Microsoft, the hottest three new tech majors are: Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence Analytics/Statistics – specifically Web Analytics, A/B Testing and statistical analysis Tim O'Reilly concurs. Of course, R features prominently in most of these areas -- follow the links I added above for examples -- and is growing rapidly, so learning R makes...
Rmetrics at useR! 2010
(This article was first published on Rmetrics blogs, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: Rmetrics blogs. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics such as: visualization (ggplot2, Boxplots, maps, animation), programming (RStudio, Sweave, LaTeX, SQL, Eclipse, git, hadoop, Web...
Demonstration of {estout}
I wrote a short talk demonstrating the use the R package {estout} for tonight’s New England R Users Group meeting. NB this is not a discussion of the econometric model, but rather a demonstration of how to get publication-quality results out of R efficiently. The basic functions of {estout} are modeled on the Stata package estout. 
Tools for Hacking R: Git + Subversion
In an earlier post, I discussed how to use Subversion to download, edit, and generate a patch against R‘s source code. Since most of us can’t commit our code changes back to R‘s repository, we can consider alternatives to store and maintain our patch, until it is eventually incorporated into R. Of course, our changes
Webinar: Big Data Analysis with Revolution R
Don't forget that I'll be hosting a webinar tomorrow talking about the new RevoScaleR package included with the forthcoming Revolution R Enterprise 4.0. The webinar will also feature a live demonstration from Joseph Rickert. The full details are below, and you can register for the webinar here. Big Data Analysis for R Using Revolution R Enterprise Date: Wednesday, Aug...
Packing everything into a data.frame
OK, I know I talk about R too much, but I like R, so I’m going to talk about it some more. Common situation: repeat a procedure many times; each time generates some large wadge of awful-structured data, and in … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
