# Monthly Archives: January 2011

## How many of each gift did my true love give to me?

January 4, 2011
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How many of each gift did my true love give to me?

## Gifts my true love gave to me on all twelve days of Christmas

January 4, 2011
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Gifts my true love gave to me on all twelve days of Christmas

## First meeting of Toronto R User Group this Friday

January 3, 2011
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The Greater Toronto Area R User Group is having its inaugural meeting this Friday, January 7. The meeting will feature Ben Bolker, professor and author of Ecological Models and Data in R, who will speak on Generalized Linear Models. It's also your opportunity to join the group and help define its future path, so if you're in the area...

## Example 8.19: Referencing lists of variables

January 3, 2011
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In section 1.11.4 (p. 50), we discuss referring to lists of variables in a data set. In SAS, this can be done for variable stored in adjacent columns with the "var_x -- var_y" syntax and for variables with sequentially enumerated suffixes with the "va...

## Exporting KML from R

January 2, 2011
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Google Earth has become a popular way of disseminating spatial data. KML is the data format required to do this. It is possible to load almost any type of spatial...

## LaTeX Typesetting – Tables

January 2, 2011
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One area of LaTeX that is not always straightforward is producing tabular material. In this post we will look at some of the basics of creating tables in a LaTeX document. Fast Tube by Casper When creating tables there is a tabular environment that can be used and we need to specify the number of

## Animation from Kaggle traffic prediction competition

January 2, 2011
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Below: two animations (same one twice, just as different speeds) I made from the highway data for the Kaggle traffic prediction competition.The data are travel times for 61 different sections of Sydney's M4 freeway, in both directions. The data comes i...

## Animation from Kaggle traffic prediction competition

January 2, 2011
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Below: two animations (same one twice, just as different speeds) I made from the highway data for the Kaggle traffic prediction competition.The data are travel times for 61 different sections of Sydney's M4 freeway, in both directions. The data comes i...

## Le Monde puzzle [52|solution]

January 1, 2011
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$Le Monde puzzle [52|solution]$

I have now received the first issue of Le Monde magazine, including the solution to puzzle #52 I solved just in time by simulated annealing! The trick is in using the following theorem: Iter(1,x,y) is divisible by 10x-1 if and only if y is divisible by 10x-1. Then the value to be found is divisible