tl;dr: Play with the app here
When you live in Paris, chances are you are (home or work) very close to a metro station, so when you want to meet with some friends, you usually end up picking another metro station as a meeting point. Yet, finding the optimal place to meet can easily become a complex problem considering...
Discussing with some friends the other day, one of them mentioned a supposedly famous quote from Einstein saying that 1 + 1 = 3. Despite my best efforts, Google couldn’t find that particular quote. Anyway, we were trying to understand how could have Einstein come up with that. Our answer was that the proposition “1 + 1 = 3”...
Quite a lot of people have had fun recently with prime factorization. It all started on The Math Less Traveled, then various versions of the prime factorization diagrams appeared (here, here, this animated one, etc., they are actually more or less listed here). So I wanted to have fun too and give a try...
A couple of weeks ago, Markus Gesmann demonstrated the feasability of connecting R and Arduino using Processing and Rserve in a nice and simple example. This actually rekindled my interest in Arduino that I hadn’t had time to satisfy… Agai...
It is pretty easy to monitor the progress of a long loop in R using the original txtProgressBar function in the utils package. It works like this: mypb <- txtProgressBar() m <- sapply(1:1000, function(x) { setTxtProgressBar(mypb, x/1000) mea...
Last week, I came across two interesting posts by Romain François and Petr Simecek: Crawling Facebook with R, in which Romain explains how to connect to the Facebook Graph API Mining Facebook Data: Most “Liked” Status and Friendship Net...
Starting this blog with initial thanks to Josh Suereth from whom I cloned the template of this blog, Tom Preston-Werner who made Jekyll (a static site generator for this blog), Scott Chamberlain who made me aware of it.
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
