The ability to handle maps and geospatial images is always a nice trick to have up your sleeve. Almost any sizeable report will contain a map – of a locality, of a country, or of the world. However, very few analysts have the ability to produce these plots for themselves and often resort to using...
Web scraping with Python – the dark side of data
In searching for some information on web-scrapers, I found a great presentation given at Pycon in 2010 by Asheesh Laroia. I thought this might be a valuable resource for R users who are looking for ways to gather data from user-unfriendly websites. The...
The R apply function – a tutorial with examples
Today I had one of those special moments that is uniquely associated with R. One of my colleagues was trying to solve what I term an 'Excel problem'. That is, one where the problem magically disappears once a programming language is employed. Put simpl...
Multiple plots in R: lesson zero
Today, in one of my more productive days, I managed to create a sleek R script that plotted several histograms in a lattice, allowing for easy identification of the underlying trend. Although the majority of the time taken consisted of collecting the data and making various adjustments, it took a not inconsiderable amount of work to write the...
Survival skills for today’s analyst
I suffer a little from the age-old affliction of contrarianism. If a software package is used by the majority of the population, I assume it is flawed, highly limited, and its continued use will ultimately result in the downfall of the human race. Conversely, I am always extremely interested in a piece of software that has spread no further...
Survival skills for today’s analyst
I suffer a little from the age-old affliction of contrarianism. If a software package is used by the majority of the population, I assume it is flawed, highly limited, and its continued use will ultimately result in the downfall of the human race. Conversely, I am always extremely interested in a piece of software that has spread no further...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
