April 2011

Schelling’s Neighborhood Model

April 30, 2011 | ALT

The New York Times has created a beautiful visualization of the Census Bureau's 2005-2009 American Community Survey data. The distribution of racial and ethnic groups in New York City is particularly fascinating:Chinatown appears in red toward the sou...
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Produce Authentic Math Formulas in R Graphics

April 30, 2011 | Yihui Xie

I remember a few weeks ago, there was a challenge in the R-help list to make the prime symbol in R graphics. In LaTeX, we simply write $X'$ or $X^\prime$. R has a rough support for math expressions (see demo(plotmath)) and they are certainly unsatisfactory for LaTeX users. ... [Read more...]

Hofstader’s Chaotic Sequence

April 30, 2011 | tsperry

About a year ago I was reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. In a section on recursion he presents a sequence that he calls "A Chaotic Sequence" defined as:Q(n) = Q(n - Q(n - 1)) + Q(n - Q(n - 2)) for n __ 2Q(1) = Q(2) =1It's sim... [Read more...]

Another Use of LSPM in Tactical Portfolio Allocation

April 29, 2011 | klr

After the slightly unconventional use of LSPM presented in Slightly Different Use of Ralph Vince’s Leverage Space Trading Model, I thought I should follow up with something that more closely resembles my interpretation of Ralph Vince’s book. LSPM s...
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Rcpp Workshop slides

April 29, 2011 | romain francois

Dirk and I gave a full day Rcpp workshop yesterday in Chicago before the R in Finance conference. The pdfs of the slides are available here: part 1 (intro), part 2 (details), part 3 (modules) and part 4 (applications) [Read more...]

Gartner: Revolution Analytics a "Cool Vendor" for BI

April 29, 2011 | David Smith

Leading analyst firm Gartner has just published its "Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence" report for 2011 (download it here if you have a Gartner subscription). In the report, Revolution Analytics is named a Gartner Cool Vendor, and recognizes the company as "innovative, impactful and intriguing": Driven in part by ... [Read more...]

RStudio is good for you

April 29, 2011 | Julyan Arbel

I was recently introduced to RStudio, a new integrated development environment for R, it is just amazing! It is free, and open, compatible with PC/Mac/Linux OSs. You can also choose to run it in the cloud, and access it from your favorite web browser. As you can see, ... [Read more...]

Forming Formulas

April 29, 2011 | Tony Cookson

One of the first functions a new R user learns how to use is the lm() command, which involves stating the model formula.lm(y~x1+x2, data=mydata)After a while, this just becomes a natural way to say "I want a regression of y on x1 and x2 ...
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ggplot2 – First impressions

April 29, 2011 | QuantTrader

I was reading various R blogs and saw very nice looking plots created with ggplot2 package. Especially this blog was useful because of link to a very interesting book about ggplot2. I want to display and update the latest co-integrated pairs every day ... [Read more...]

Processing nested lists

April 28, 2011 | Scott Chamberlain

So perhaps you have all figured this out already, but I was excited to figure out how to finally neatly get all the data frames, lists, vectors, etc. out of a nested list. It is as easy as nesting calls to the apply family of functions, in the case bel...
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