The problem: We often want to plot data and assign plot attributes based on characteristics of the data. For example, if we have a group of students with the following IQs, we might want to indicate who is an outlier in the statistical sense. I like...
I haven’t heard much about correlation lately. I was curious about what it’s been doing. Data The dataset is daily log returns on 464 large cap US stocks from the start of 2006 to 2012 October 5. The sector data were taken from Wikipedia. The correlation calculated here is the mean correlation of stocks among … Continue reading...
We have been working on an R package to get GBIF data from R, with the stable version available through CRAN here, and the development version available on GitHub here. We had a Google Summer of code stuent work on the package this summer - you can se...
After watching the Presidential debates and hearing all the opinions on how the candidates performed, I got the hair brained idea of creating a simple function that would do automate the pulling down of tweets for each candidate, analyze the positivity or negativity of tweets, and then graph them out. This project turned out to 
In the recent Barcode Bulletin published by iBoL, our humble paper announcing the R package spider: Species identity and evolution made second on their list of the top 10 publications of 2012. Not bad for a side project! Spider is available for downl...
A question that often comes across various help lists is how to combine or split an output from an R graphics device. Maybe you have looped/combined multiple visuals into a single pdf to avoid cluttering your working directory and now … Continue reading →
Just a couple quick examples. Starting with 30 meter impervious surface Followed by MODIS Land cover ( “red” is urban ) And finally Day LST Google earth
I’ve started a tutorial on using the MODIS package in R the first few steps are here. While I wait on a release of the package I thought I would play around a bit with the MRT tool and see how it worked. Let’s recall where we are going. I have an inventory of around 
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Last week (October 1-3) MPK Analytics attended the annual Cyber Summit in Banff. The theme for this year was; “Leading the Way in the Age of Big Data“. As might 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
