# Monthly Archives: July 2013

## Plotting principal component analysis with ggplot #rstats

July 8, 2013
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This script was almost written on parallel to the sjPlotCorr script because it uses a very similar ggplot-base. However, there’s also a very nice posting over at Martin’s Bio Blog which show alternative approaches on plotting PCAs. Anyway, if you … Weiterlesen →

## analyze the american time use survey (atus) with r

July 8, 2013
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the american time use survey collects information about how we spend our time.  it's a pretty simple setup: sampled individuals write down everything they do for a single twenty-four hour period, in ten minute intervals.  those diaries are a...

## Estimating ODE’s parameters

July 7, 2013
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## change in weight of cars plot

July 7, 2013
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Based on last week's faster algorithm I wanted to finish with car weights. Unfortunately a fail again. By now it is a fail of myself, it needs a bit more dedication and grunt than I am willing and able to give for this blog. This week I added...

## Interactive Heatmaps (and Dendrograms) – A Shiny App

July 7, 2013
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Heatmaps are a great way to visualize data matrices. Heatmap color and organization can be used to  encode information about the data and metadata to help learn about the data at hand. An example of this could be looking at the raw data  or hierarchically clustering samples and variables based on their similarity or differences.

## rgeos: TopologyException – found non-noded intersection between..

July 7, 2013
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I have been having some issues generating spatial unions and intersections using the rgeos package. The package is extremely powerful, as it serves as an R interface to the powerful GEOS engine. However, when working with shapefiles or polygons, quite often you will come across a whole range of errors, typically around topology exceptions. These occur

## ggmap : Interesting toolbox for spatial analysis

July 7, 2013
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ggmap is a new tool which enables such visualization by combining the spatial information of static maps from Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Stamen Maps or CloudMade Maps with the layered grammar of graphics implementation of ggplot2The library is developped by David Kahle and Hadley Wickham and in the latest R/Journal (Volume 5/1, June 2013),...

## RFM Customer Analysis with R Language

July 7, 2013
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For database marketing or direct marketing people, they are always concerned about two questions before they send out mails or make calls to their customers:- How can they segment the customers in the database to find out who are more likely to response to their mails or buy their products? Which type of customers they

## Variance Swap Replcation in R.

July 6, 2013
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As I was studying volatility derivatives I made some charts that represent some key features of replication. Say variance swap has a payoff function $$f=(\sigma^2 - K_{VOL})$$, which means that $$K_{VOL}$$ will most likely be the forward volatility cl...