Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating and complex disease with an unknown cause — and for which there is currently no cure. The SUNY Buffalo is home to one of the leading multiple sclerosis (MS) research centers in the world, and as reported in Healthcare IT News, the research team is using IBM Netezza and Revolution R Enterprise to...
Monthly Archives: April 2012
spam evolution
Despite some rather modest protection (like a simple captcha), I still receive spammy comments on this blog every now and again. They’re easily spotted and actually never appear on the website. There’s obviously an incentive for the spammer to post … Continue reading →
R Tips: lots of tips for R programming
by Yanchang Zhao, RDataMining.com There are more than 100 R tips at http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/Rtips.html, which provide quick examples to small challenges in everyday R programming, especially for users switching from other languages to R. There is also a .PDF version for … Continue reading →
More PubMed data mining: looking at top 20 CBT journals
In this short article I present some data of the top 20 Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) journals with the most PubMed publications, and compare that to data from 2010 and 2011.
Installing R packages without admin rights on MS Windows
Is there a life outside the office?Photo: Markus GesmannIt is not unusual that you will not have admin rights in an IT controlled office environment. But then again the limitations set by the IT department can spark of some creativity. And I have to ad...
Graphing Predicted Legislative Violence with Zelig & ggplot2
In my previous post I briefly mentioned an early draft of a working paper (HERE) I've written that looks into the possible causes of violence between legislators (like the violence shown in this picture from the Turkish Parliament).
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Late-April flotsam
It has been month and a half since I compiled a list of statistical/programming internet flotsam and jetsam. Via Lambda The Ultimate: Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions For Data Analysis (PDF). A very detailed evaluation … Continue reading →
LeaRning R
If, like me, you're still an R novice, you'll no doubt find this post on Pairach Piboonrungroj's blog extremely helpful. Among other things, Pairach provides links to 20 40 "R tutorials". It's a really nice resource!
© 2012, David E. Giles
Big Data, R and HANA: Analyze 200 Million Data Points and Later Visualize in HTML5 Using D3 – Part II
In my last blog, Big Data, R and SAP HANA: Analyze 200 Million Data Points and Later Visualize Using Google Maps, I analyzed historical airlines performance data set using R and SAP HANA and put the aggregated analysis on Google Maps. Undoub...
Live Longer – Choose Your Country Wisely (if you can)
Full democracy countries are the ones in which to live. This week's story could start and end with the above graph with almost no further explanation. But that wouldn't do it justice. So, like so many of the past articles on "Graph o...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
