Given the growing interest in parallel processing through GPUs or multiple processors, there is a clear need for a proper use of (uniform) random number generators in this environment. We were discussing the issue yesterday with Jean-Michel Marin and briefly looked at a few solutions: given p parallel streams/threads/...

Last week I participated in bit.ly’s fourth hackabit hack-a-thon, which is a wonderful opportunity for NYC area hackers to get together, eat pizza, drink energy drinks, and stay up late hacking with some of the best data geeks around. I was lucky enough to saddle up next to ...

We've continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba...

Videos from the October meeting “Text Mining with R” of the Los Angeles R users group:Rob Zinkov, “Text Mining with R”:Ryan Rosario, “Accessing R from Python using RPy2″:

Kyle Matoba is a Finance PhD student at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.  He gave a presentation on Algorithmic Trading with R and IBrokers at a recent meeting of the Los Angeles R User Group.  The discussion of IBrokers begins near th...