If you've been thinking about heading to Chicago in April for the R/Finance conference, here's another reason to go: posting for the committee, Dirk Eddelbuettel announced last week that thanks to a favourable response from sponsors[*], the conference organizers can now offer: a competition for best paper, which given ... [Read more...]

I spend much of my time writing R code for simulations to compare the supervised classification methods that I have developed with similar classifiers from the literature.  A large challenge is to determine which datasets (whether artificial/simulated or real) are interesting comparisons.  Even if we restricted ourselves to multivariate ... [Read more...]

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Here is the poster presented at MCMSki III next week by Pierre Jacob about our joint paper on parallelisation: Filed under: R, Statistics, Travel Tagged: Adapski, MCMC, MCMSki, Metropolis-Hastings, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, parallelisation, pos... [Read more...]

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The 2011 R/Finance conference has an updated call for papers.  Dirk Eddelbuettel announced it to the R-SIG-Finance mailing list.  I've reproduced his email in its entirety below.  Let me know if you plan on attending.Subject: R/Finance 2... [Read more...]

There is this beautiful graph created by the facebook intern Paul Butler showing all (?) connections between facebook accounts: Paul’s article is called “Visualizing Friendships“, which I would more call “Visualizing connections between facebook accounts”, but that is probably a different matter. Although this is a beautiful piece of artwork, ... [Read more...]

A couple people pointed me to this recent news article which discusses "why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older." Here's the story: When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty cheerful. Things... ... [Read more...]

I have been simulating a lot of data lately  with various covariance (correlation) structures, and one that I have been using is the autocorrelation (or autoregressive) structure, where there is a “lag” between variables. The matrix is a v-dimension matrix of the form $$\begin{bmatrix} 1 & \rho & \rho^2 & \dots & \rho^{v-1}\\ \... [Read more...]

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The text below went out as a post to the r-packages list a few days ago, but I thought it would make sense to post it on the blog too. So with a little html markup... Summary Version 0.9.0 of the Rcpp package is now on CRAN and its mirrors. Thi... [Read more...]

The foundamental idea of numerical integration is to estimate the area of the region in the xy-plane bounded by the graph of function f(x). The integral was esimated by divide x to small intervals, then add all the small approximations to give a total approximation. Read More: 468 Words Totally [Read more...]

My goal is to develop a means of detecting chromosome bias from a human BAM file.Because I've been working with proprietary and novel plant genomes for the last three years, I haven't had the chance to use any of the awesome UCSC-based annotational features that have been introduced and ... [Read more...]

There was a small earthquake in northern England on Tuesday. Barry Rowlingson felt the quake (it rattled the photographs on his wall), but didn't know how big of a quake it was because he didn't know how close he was to the epicentre. The British Geological Survey hadn't yet announced ... [Read more...]

I've recently praised some mainstream media outlets like the New York Times and New Scientist for leading the charge on data journalism. But you don't need to be a large organization to find news in data. With open data sources, and open-source data analysis tools, individuals can make newsworthy discoveries. ... [Read more...]

I would have never imagined that I would have to go back to high school concepts and do strange trigonometric calculations. However, it happened to me that I needed to convert GPS coordinates of a large data set to radians. It’s a trivial task, if you know how to ... [Read more...]

http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=187 A composite is a number containing at least two prime factors. For example, 15 = 3 × 5; 9 = 3 × 3; 12 = 2 × 2 × 3. There are ten composites below thirty containing precisely two, not necessarily distinct, prime factors: 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, 25, 26. Read More: 671 Words Totally [Read more...]