I'm introducing R to a few colleagues this week and want to share why learning a software like R is important... Here are a few articles that explain it well... Other reasons?Importance of data science- Couple years ago Google's Chief Economist Hal Var...
As we dig deeper into Stata or R debate, a few questions have come up.Question 1: One of the things Stata does well is the way it constructs new variables (see example below). How to do this in R? We can rewrite it as-is using for loops in R...
As we dig deeper into Stata or R debate, a few questions have come up.Question 1: One of the things Stata does well is the way it constructs new variables (see example below). How to do this in R? We can rewrite it as-is using for loops in R...
Recently I came across a complex model written in Access with complex SQL queries all over the place. The engineer who was maintaining it and I did some analysis and agreed that the model was using SQL in an unnatural way (things SQL isn't good at) - c...
Recently I came across a complex model written in Access with complex SQL queries all over the place. The engineer who was maintaining it and I did some analysis and agreed that the model was using SQL in an unnatural way (things SQL isn't good at) - c...
I've refined the R code to pick the best fantasy soccer team by using more granular player performance data (available publicly). Here are the best overall, home and away teams. The constraints used are: 1) Number of goalkeepers = 12) Nu...
I've refined the R code to pick the best fantasy soccer team by using more granular player performance data (available publicly). Here are the best overall, home and away teams. The constraints used are: 1) Number of goalkeepers = 12) Nu...
English cricket is strong once again. And it is great to see that (after all they invented the gentleman's game).In a sharp contrast to previous tours of Australia, England outplayed Australia on their home ground in the recently concluded Ashes 2...
English cricket is strong once again. And it is great to see that (after all they invented the gentleman's game).In a sharp contrast to previous tours of Australia, England outplayed Australia on their home ground in the recently concluded Ashes 2...
A few months ago, I created World Bank plots and compiled the images on Flickr to share it online. Recently I came across Mark's post to create animated images in R and it inspired me to re-create my World Bank plots as animated images. ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
