An article in the September 5 issue of Fortune Magazine notes that despite the economy, companies are scrambling to hire data scientists: Data scientists have been a fixture at online companies like Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) for years. But these days organizations as diverse as Wal-Mart (WMT) and Foursquare are hiring computer science experts who can analyze all...
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Bayes-250, Edinburgh [day 2]
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After a terrific run this morning to the top of Arthur’s Seat, and then around (the ribs are feeling fine, now!), the Bayes-250 talks were exhilarating and challenging. Jim Smith gave an introduction to the challenges of getting different experts to collaborate on a complex risk assessment, much in the spirit of his book, that 
Webinar: Leveraging R in Hadoop Environments
On Wednesday September 21, Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne will give a live webinar introducing three new open-source packages for R and Hadoop, which make it possible to work with Hadoop data in R, and bring in-database R analytics to Hadoop. Here are the details: Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 10:00AM - 10:30AM Pacific Time Presenter: David Champagne, Chief...
Example 9.4: New stuff in SAS 9.3– MI FCS
We begin the new academic year with a series of entries exploring new capabilities of SAS 9.3, and some functionality we haven't previously written about.We'll begin with multiple imputation. Here, SAS has previously been limited to multivariate norma...
Free R Book Collection
I have just encountered some R PDF books that seem quite interesting. One of them is written by Venables himself.The Art of R Programming by Norman MatloffAn Introduction to R by W.N. Venables and D. M. SmithThe R Inferno by Patrick BurnsThe R Guide by...
Salesforce.com and Analytics
Salesforce.com has become one of the most successful cloud applications. I am quite astounded by it’s mega hit penetration into myriad of industries. It is being used by leading organizations not only to implement their customer relationship management system but also to develop their own applications running on cloud. But complete absence of meaningful analytical 
KDNuggest: R most commonly used software for data mining & analytics
In a poll with 570 respondents conducted last month at KDNuggets, the R software was the most frequent response to the question, "What programming languages you used for data mining / data analysis in the past 12 months?". The results are tabled below (respondents could select more than one response): In another poll conducted earlier this year, KDNuggets also...
Review of “Risk and Meaning” by Nicolas Bouleau
The subtitle is: Adversaries in Art, Science and Philosophy. Executive Summary Genius or madness? I haven’t decided. Irreversibility of interpretation The book drives home that once we decide how something is we can’t go back to our state of innocence. Figures 1 through 3 exhibit this idea via a randomly generated polygon. Look at Figure … Continue reading...
A misleading title…
When I received this book, Handbook of fitting statistical distributions with R, by Z. Karian and E.J. Dudewicz, from/for the Short Book Reviews section of the International Statistical Review, I was obviously impressed by its size (around 1700 pages and 3 kilos…). From briefly glancing at the table of contents, and the list of standard 
googleVis 0.2.9
We have published googleVis 0.2.9 on CRAN. The new version updates the package for the new features of the Google Visualisation API and brings an new in-page editor option. Here is a simple example, displaying the participants of the R user Conference...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
