I'm anticipating presenting research of mine based on Bayesian graphical models to an audience that might not be familiar with them. When presenting ordinary regression results, there's already the sort of statistical sniper questions along the lines o...
I'm working on producing some black and white graphics of data which has a lot of overplotting. There are three basic groups, which if I made the plot in ordinary full color ggplot2 would look like this (the code for the reverse-log x-axis is available...
So, I've been playing around with learning knitr, which is a Sweave-like R package for combining LaTeX and R code into one document. There's almost no learning curve if you already use Sweave, and I find a lot of knitr's design and usage to be a lot nicer.
I wasn't going to make a blog post or tutorial about...
I've been doing more analysis of the Philadelphia Homicide data that the Philadelphia Inquirer has published, and presented some of it at the Philadelphia UseR group yesterday. My slides and source are on github.I should be clear tha...
I'm on spring break, and yesterday I took some time to check off some items on my to-do list, namely:Start getting acquainted with all the new features of ggplot2 .Get a handle on dealing with geographic data in R.I've done some furtive geographic...
I'm playing around with some personal data collection, and using some cloud computing to visualize it. Following the directions in this blog post, I've written an R function which visualizes data it draws from a Google Docs spreadsheet, and uploaded it...
I've only just started looking at the homicide data made available by the Philadelphia Inquirer in my free time (which is hard to come by lately). I've been thinking about what sorts of statistics I could do, or what kinds of additional data sets I cou...
Sometimes I play with non-linguistic data sets recreationally. It's a totally valid hobby! I tend to gravitate towards data on the disparities between men and women, because gender equality is something that matters to me.I've had this one data set for...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
