Recently ICC awards 2010 were announced and I began wondering how the process works. I haven't seen any good documentation of the process, so I started thinking how would I do it. Here's my version. Thoughts?Note: I is impossible to det...
Monthly Archives: October 2010
How to pick the best cricketer in any format of the game?
Recently ICC awards 2010 were announced and I began wondering how the process works. I haven't seen any good documentation of the process, so I started thinking how would I do it. Here's my version. Thoughts?Note: I is impossible to det...
WP-CodeBox: A better R syntax highlighter plugin for WordPress
About 10 months ago, I was looking for a plugin to enable me to highlight R code on my self hosted WordPress blog. The solution I came up with then was to use the wp-syntax plugin (with the need for some modifications). Today I was informed of (what I believe is) a better WordPress plugin
highlight R syntax in wordpress using wp-codebox
Tal Galili’s blog post mentioned that WP-Syntax can highlight R codes. I downloaded the modified version of WP-Syntax in his blog site. The plugin throw an error when activated. I did not try the original version hosted in WordPress. I found that WP-CodeBox use GeShi for syntax highlighting as WP-Syntax does.I used this plugin when I posted perl codes, but...
highlight R syntax in wordpress using wp-codebox
Tal Galili’s blog post mentioned that WP-Syntax can highlight R codes. I downloaded the modified version of WP-Syntax in his blog site. The plugin throw an error when activated. I did not try the original version hosted in Wordpress. I found that WP-CodeBox use GeShi for syntax highlighting as WP-Syntax does.I used this plugin when I posted perl codes,...
Nightlights in China
Update: Some are not aware that GISS has switched to using Nightlights in the ROW. According to their updates they have moved to nightlights for the ROW. The station inventories can be found here The station I examine below is listed like this in the new giss inventory 20551495001 TURPAN 42.92 91.00 24 384R -9MVDEno-9x-9HOT 
Le Monde puzzle [40]
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The puzzle in Le Monde this week is called the “square five” (sic!): Two players each have twenty-five cards with five times each of the digits 1,2,3,4,5. They alternate putting one card on top of the pile, except that they can instead take an arbitrary number of consecutive cards from the top of the pile 
Data Tools Contest Update
At midnight this morning, Kaggle began accepting submissions for the data hacking contest that we announced on Thursday. Hopefully you’ve used the last few days to build predictions for the test data set. Once you submit your predictions, you’ll be able to see your position on the leaderboard. Good luck!
R Recommendation Contest Launches on Kaggle
The R Recommendation Engine contest is now live on Kaggle. Please head over there and start submitting your predictions for the test data set. Once you do, you can check the leaderboard to see how your algorithm compares with other people’s work. We know that there’s still plenty of progress that can be made, because
Add an animated R plot to your LaTeX document
It is possible to animate a R plot and this plot can also be exported to a LaTeX document with all its animations intact. Adding this animated plot to a PowerPoint slide or save it as a flash movie file (that you can upload to YouTube) is also possible. In this article I will try to show how these...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
