Crazy busy - no time to blog recently. Time enough for pretty pictures based upon previous words though...(thanks http://www.wordle.net).
Blog Archives
Ten News Stories of 2010 – and the Statistics that Made Them
Significance MagazineAccording to Significance Magazine (jointly published by Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association) the following are the top ten stories of 2010.1. Progress in the preven...
R-Chart: Year End Wrap Up
Thanks to everyone who visited and commented here at R-Chart over the last year! Blogging has forced me to crystallize my thoughts and I hope others have benefited a bit from these meanderings. It it great to interact with the&nbs...
Google AI Challenge: Scores/Rank by Language
A quick follow up to the previous post: about the the scores in the 2010 Google AI competition relative to programming language. The chart above makes each language visible and discrete - and the scales are the same.library(ggplot2)df<- read.c...
Google AI Challenge: Languages Used by the Best Programmers
The Google AI Challenge recently wrapped up with a Lisp developer from Hungary as the winner. The competition challenges contestants to create bots that push the limits of AI and game theory. These bots compete against one another, and a co...
Mortgage Calculator (and Amortization Charts) with R
Mortgage rates have been at historic lows recently. The rates are posted various places online along with simple mortgage calculators. Such calculators illustrate the payment schedule for a mortgage based upon selected terms. But with less ...
Don’t be a Turkey
'Indeed, I am moving on: my new project is about methods on how to domesticate the unknown, exploit randomness, figure out how to live in a world we don't understand very well. While most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has fo...
iPhone App Store Acceptance Time / Download Results
Complaints about the iPhone App Store are not uncommon among developers. The submission process is frustrating at best, you can expect arbitrary rejections, and Apple's policies have not always been particularly open or welcoming. &...
Cramer’s Stock Pick Recommendations Analyzed (Part II)
This is the second post (previous one here) that provides an analysis of Cramer's stock recommendations based upon the Mad Money Stock Screener as of 10/15/2010.Recommendations by SegmentAs mentioned in the previous post, ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
