When Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch went kablooie in the financial crisis, what happened to all their employees? Thanks to the magic of LinkedIn data, their Chief Scientist DJ Patil can answer that question: they went to the surviving banks: It's a great, if tantalizingly incomplete visualization -- I'd love to see this with "Other (non-bank) employers"...
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How to call C++ from R with ease
At last night's meeting of the ACM Student Chapter at the University of Chicago, DIrk Eddelbuettel gave an invited guest lecture, "Programming with Data: Using and Extending R". I wasn't there myself, but Dirk has already posted his slides, and they're a treat. After a backgrounder on R itself (BTW, I'm flattered he referenced my Introduction to R talk...
Newspaper flubs probability calculation
That headline's right up there with "Dog Bites Man" for shock value, but the Daily Express in the UK isn't one to let mere probability stand in the way of a sensational headline like "Mum beats odds of 50 million to one to have 3 babies on same date". As Ben Goldacre helpfully explains, the probability is actually a...
R IDE and debugger now available for 64-bit Windows; Webinar Tuesday
We've just upgraded REvolution R Enterprise to version 3.1 and expanded the available platforms to include 64-bit Windows. (REvolution R Enterprise is our subscription-based distribution of R.) This means that you can now create R programs on Windows that use all of your available memory, instead of being constrained by the 3Gb limit imposed by 32-bit versions of Windows....
SPSS Co-Founder Tex Hull Joins REvolution Computing
We're proud to announce that Tex Hull, who together with REvolution CEO Norman Nie created the first version of SPSS, has joined the REvolution team. Tex will be working with Norman and our CTO David Champagne to take REvolution R Enterprise to the next level, specifically to improve its scalability to handle very large data sets. You can read...
R project named in Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Editor’s Choice Awards
Intelligent Enterprise has announced its 2010 "Editors Choice" Awards, and the R project is included as one of twelve "Companies to Watch" in the Business Intelligence category. R Project is an open-source statistical programming environment that is winning broad praise and accelerating uptake as a language for in-database analytics. The likes of SAS, SPSS and Information Builders are even...
How to make a mosaic plot in R
Mosaic plots (aka treemaps) are a great way to visualize hierarchical data. A collection of rectangles represents all the elements to be visualized (customers, news items, blog posts), with the size and color of the rectangles coding attribute. But what makes this chart unique is the arrangement of the elements: where there is hierarchy (customer segments, news topics, post...
Bay Area meet-up Tuesday: John Chambers speaks, cocktail reception
At tomorrow's meeting of the Bay Area R User's Group, ACM Software Systems award winner and R Core Group member John Chambers will give a keynote talk on the R language. The talk, titled Interfaces and Paradigms, will explore choices for computing with data with visits along the way to the history of R, reasons for the growth of...
Making publication-ready tables with xtable
When you use R at the command-line, the textual output is limited by the medium: one monospaced font, with no typesetting of any kind. That's great when you're doing exploratory analysis, but what about when you want to include R output in a report or publication? In other words, what if you want to convert this Analysis of Variance...
Future of Open Source Survey
Our good friends at North Bridge Venture Partners have just opened the 2010 Future of Open Source Survey, an annual look at the state of open source technology and business models, the driving factors in rising adoption of open source products and how the market for open-source software is evolving. Anyone who uses open-source software in the commercial world,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
