I always like to read new posts at chartsnthings as they always inspire me with new ideas for data visualization. Yesterday I have read an article on choices of car brands by members of parliament in Poland in Gazeta.pl. It contains a simple ...
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Calling R from SAS IML Studio
I am playing around with SAS IML Studio 3.4. For those that do not know, IML (Interactive Matrix Language) is the Matlab-esk language from SAS. It opperates from normal SAS code through the PROC IML procedure. A new (to me at least) UI has been developed for analysts called IML Studio. IML Studio uses a superset of the IML...
Double Release: Rook 1.0-5 and rApache 1.1.21
I wanted to get these releases out the door before the useR conference, especially since I’m giving a tutorial on Rook! There were two bugs found in Rook, not by me, but by users! This is a fantastic step in the right direction as it’s an ...
System from Trend Following Factors
As I thought more about Trend Following Factors from Hsieh and Fung, I thought that the trend following factors might indicate a state/regime for the equity markets that could potentially offer momentum-style timing signals for a system on the S&P ...
Distribution of Oft-Used Bash Commands
Browsing commandlinefu.com today, I came across this little one-liner to display which commands I use most often. Here’s what I got: Yep, seems legit. I navigate and look at files a whole bunch (ls, cd, cat), and I do a butt tonne of editing (vim). I sudo like a boss, hop onto various servers (ssh), 
Life contingencies with R
I will be giving in less than four weeks a short course at the 6th R/Rmetrics Meielisalp Workshop & Summer School on Computational Finance and Financial Engineering organized by ETH Zürich, https://www.rmetrics.org/. The talk will be on Actuarial models with R, and first part will be dedicated to life insurance. A complete set of slides can be downloaded from the...
The influences that shaped R: Inferno-ish R
Patrick Burns, author of the excellent R Inferno, gave a presentation about R at the Cambridge R User Group this week. (Revolution Analytics is a proud sponsor of CambR.) I wasn't at the presentation myself, but Pat always gives a great talk, and he's generously provided his slides with copious notes. They're definitely worth a read if you're interested...
Predicting NBA Playoff Games – Results and Update 1
Game ResultsI recently made a post about developing an algorithm to predict the NBA playoffs, and I concluded with 2 predictions. Although Miami beat the Celtics to make my algorithm 1-0 in terms of predictions, it fell to 1-1 when the Thunder beat th...
Life contingencies with R
I will be giving in less than four weeks a short course at the 6th R/Rmetrics Meielisalp Workshop & Summer School on Computational Finance and Financial Engineering organized by ETH Zürich, https://www.rmetrics.org/. The talk will be...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
