Monthly Archives: October 2010

Postdoc position in computational Bayesian statistics

October 14, 2010
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Postdoc position in computational Bayesian statistics

Here is an announcement I received that should interest potential postdocs (willing to come to Paris). The location is on the Orsay campus, south of Paris. In the framework of the ANR-funded Metacoli project which aims at identifying the metabolic underpinnings of the lifestyle diversity in the E. coli species, Genoscope (the genomics institute of

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Kuwait Airport

October 14, 2010
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Kuwait Airport

  Kuwait International airport. Giss has it as nightlights =0, so do I. By looking at comparisons of nightlights with the station centered and a static google map with the station centered, there are mismatches between GISS and Me and between Nightlights and the  world. Subtle shift here and there. Annoying. Also, you can see

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Nightlights, Contours, and Rgooglemap

October 14, 2010
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Nightlights, Contours, and Rgooglemap

I am continuing the investigation of nightlights using some additional packages from Cran. Here we add Rgooglemaps to the mix. Rgooglemaps is a neat tool that gives you a simple ( needs better docs) interface to the static map server. Perhaps, I’ll modify the code to my likeing, so For now I use it as

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R wanted for an intern at Barron’s

October 13, 2010
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R/SQL/scripting, oodles of data, a willing outlet for write-ups. Any takers? Do some good. Intern at Barron’s, the New York financial publication with a decades-long tradition of investigative journalism and a more recent commitment to data analytic exposure of fraud in finance, business and healthcare. Bring us your zeal and your data munging skills and

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Impact of Google Instant on paid search

October 13, 2010
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Impact of Google Instant on paid search

When Google introduced Google Instant (where search results are displayed as you type), it was certainly a boon for searchers. Personally, I've started visiting the Google homepage after years of just using the search box in Firefox (and now Chrome), and enjoying the improved search experience. (And I get to see those neat Doodles, too.) But not everyone was...

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Reassembling logical operations on boolean vectors in Gnu R

October 13, 2010
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What a headline.. It's about combining boolean vectors in R.

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Animated plots in R and LaTeX

October 12, 2010
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Animated plots in R and LaTeX

I like to use animated plots in my talks on functional time series, partly because it is the only way to really see what is going on with changes in the shapes of curves over time, and also because audiences love them! Here is how it is done. For LaTeX, you need to create every

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Lists of English Words

October 12, 2010
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Lists of English Words

When I was a kid, I went through an 80s music phase…well, some things never change. “People just love to play with words…” Know that song? Anyway…

One of the biggest pains of text mining and NLP is colloquialism — language that is only appropriate in casual language and not in formal speech or writing. Words such as informal contractions...

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RHIPE in the SD Times

October 12, 2010
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Saptarshi Guha, who we profiled yesterday, is at the Hadoop World conference in New York City today. At 4PM, Saptarshi will give a presentation on RHIPE, his link between R and Hadoop. Saptarashi was interviewed yesterday by Alex Handy of the SD Times, where he talked about his background and his motivation to create RHIPE. Saptarshi was sponsored by...

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In case you missed it: September Roundup

October 12, 2010
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. We presented a profile of Hadley Wickham, author of many popular R packages including ggplot2 and reshape. We riffed the design of the new Twitter website into a discussion on calculating the Golden Mean with R. Several readers contributed 1-liners based on...

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