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. ...

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Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of def...

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Recently a colleague asked if I could use R/statistics to form a dream soccer team from a pool of soccer players, given basic player information like name, club, cost, points.The idea is to form a team with your preferred configuration of number of def...

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Are there any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)?I looked around but could not find any... Any leads?VRP is a classic combinatorial optimization challenge and has been an active area of research for operations research gurus fo...

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Are there any R packages to solve Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)?I looked around but could not find any... Any leads?VRP is a classic combinatorial optimization challenge and has been an active area of research for operations research gurus fo...

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This post is a response to a comment on Cricinfo on Donald Bradman about his inclusion in All Time World XI. AK47_pk said,"7 innings against westindies, 7 against south afriqa, 5 against india nd 61 against englnd(so basicly he only played against...

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This post is a response to a comment on Cricinfo on Donald Bradman about his inclusion in All Time World XI. AK47_pk said,"7 innings against westindies, 7 against south afriqa, 5 against india nd 61 against englnd(so basicly he only played against...

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There is a lot of hype in media about Ponting's best days being behind him. While he's rebuilding a fresh Aussie team, everyone is putting more pressure on him by comparing his performance with Tendulkar's. Leave him alone!We have the privilege of watc...

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There is a lot of hype in media about Ponting's best days being behind him. While he's rebuilding a fresh Aussie team, everyone is putting more pressure on him by comparing his performance with Tendulkar's. Leave him alone!We have the privilege of watc...

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Recently ICC awards 2010 were announced and I began wondering how the process works. I haven't seen any good documentation of the process, so I started thinking  how would I do it. Here's my version. Thoughts?Note: I is impossible to det...

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