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Today at Davis R Users’ Group, Michael Hannon gave a great talk on how to use R’s native debugging functions. Here are his notes and code. Introduction This is a discussion of debugging techniques in R. It is based on a paper by Roger Peng, now at Johns Hopkins ... [Read more...]

Not the start Blue Jays fans were looking for. With a 6-9 record at the time of publication they already trail Boston (led by reviled ex-BJ manager, John Farrell) by 4.5 games. The batting has been particularly anemic but the pitching – particularly the starting rotation – has also been a concern I ... [Read more...]

Data from: http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/2012-09-26/americas-50-best-citiesThis time, I used ggplot2 to recreate the graphs created previously using Tableau. After all, R and ggplot2 are open source and free. Yes, I could leave a space... [Read more...]

It is now increasingly common for experimental psychologists (among others) to use multilevel models (also known as linear mixed models) to analyze data that used to be shoe-horned into a repeated measures ANOVA design. Chapter 18 of Serious Stats introduces multilevel models by considering them as an extension of repeated measures ... [Read more...]

Sometimes people ask me how the examples of my plotting functions I show here can be reproduced without having a SPSS data set (or at least, without having the data set I use because it’s not public yet). So I … Weiterlesen → [Read more...]

Frequently I need to recode a date column to quarters. For example, at Excelsior College we have continuous enrollment so we report new enrollments per quarter. To complicate things a bit, our fiscal year starts in July so that July, August, and September represent the first quarter, January, February, and ... [Read more...]

Exploring Gaussian Mixture Models Exploring Gaussian Mixture Models This week in the Empirical Research Methods course, we've been talking a lot about measurement error. The idea of having some latent variable of interest, coupled with 'flawed' measures reminded me of a section of Cosma's course I really enjoyed, but haven't ... [Read more...]

Since I have not posted in quite a while, I wanted to let everyone know that I am still alive and kicking.  The resurrection of excitement (opportunity) in the markets, quarterly reporting cycle, and the overwhelming number of unbelievable R/javascript releases have kept me from writing something good enough ... [Read more...]

As if the London Whale nearly bankrupting Chase Bank wasn't lesson enough, we now hear that an Excel error impacted the conclusions of a major economics paper that influenced the recent austerity policies in the US, UK and elsewhere. Matt Frost says enough is enough, and implores to everyone to ... [Read more...]

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Overhauling analytics processes is becoming a recurring theme among customers. A major telecommunication provider recently embarked on overhauling their analytics process for customer surveys. They had three broad technical goals: Provide an agile environment that empowers business analysts to test hypotheses based ... [Read more...]

Aannounced: the 177 mentoring organizations accepted for 2013’s Google Summer of Code program. We’re proud that Bioconductor is one the organizations chosen. [Read more...]

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At RStudio, we’re hosting our Introduction to R Workshop this May in two locations. As an R-help subscriber, we’re offering 10% off! Intro to data science with R [Read more...]

Here is an interview with Ron Hochreiter, Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University Economics and Business. In 25 words or less tell us what you do (using German words is cheating). I consider myself as a data scientist (teaching and research) with roots in Mathematical Programming, i.e. Optimization under Uncertainty (... [Read more...]

Spotting international conflict is very easy with the GDELT data set, combined with ggplot and R. The simple gif above shows snapshots of Russian/Soviet activity from January 1980 and January 2000. I think it also illustrates how Russia nowadays looks more to the east and the South than during the Cold ... [Read more...]

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R has a built-in collection of 657 colors that you can use in plotting functions by using color names. There are also various facilities to select color sequences more systematically: Color palettes and ramps available in packages RColorBrewer and colorRamps. R base functions colorRamp and colorRampPalette that you can use to ... [Read more...]

by Thomas Dinsmore Revolution R Enterprise Release 6.2 goes live next week, so naturally our development team is thinking ahead to Release 7, which we plan to release later this year. Some of those enhancements are hush-hush, and we can't talk about them yet. But one of the most important enhancements we've ... [Read more...]

‘No estaba muerto, andaba the parranda’† as the song says. Although rather than partying it mostly has been reading, taking pictures and trying to learn how to record sounds. Here there are some things I’ve come across lately. I can’t remember if I’ve recommended Matloff’s The ... [Read more...]