I like politics; I don’t like all of the lying involved. If you ask me, I think that there should be “Ethics Committee” investigations into all of the lying. Sure, tweeting a picture of your junk is probably not the … Continue reading →
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Politicians
Slides from Rocky Mtn SABR Meeting
Last Saturday I had the good fortune to present a talk on finding, gathering, and analyzing some sports-related data on the web at the local SABR group meeting. In case you’re not familiar with the “SABR” acronym, it stands for … Continue reading →
Google Trends, R, and the NFL
A week or so ago I saw a tweet related how the NFL lockout was affecting the search traffic for “fantasy football” on Google (using Google Trends). Basically, the search traffic (properly normalized on Google Trends) was down prior to … Continue reading →
The RDSTK Presentation at Denver R Users Group
Last night I presented a talk at the DRUG introducing the R wrapper for the Data Science Toolkit. Lots of good questions, good forking, and good beer afterwards at Freshcraft. The slides are given below.
R and the Data Science Toolkit
I recently decided to present a talk to the Denver R Users Group (DRUG) on how to make an R package (May 17). There were only two problems: (1) I’ve never made a package and (2) I had nothing in mind … Continue reading →
NBA, Logistic Regression, and Mean Substitution
I’m currently sitting at about 32K feet above sea level on my way from Tampa International to DIA and my options … Continue reading →
NBA Analysis: Coming Soon!
I decided to spend a few hours this weekend writing the R code to scrape the individual statistics of NBA players (2010-11 only). I originally planned to write up a few NBA-related analyses, but a friend was visiting from out … Continue reading →
Accessing R from Python using RPy2
This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to present a short talk (a bit long) related to text mining at the Los Angeles R Users’ Group. Since I do most of my text mining in Python, I took this opportunity to discuss RPy2, an interface to R from Python. My slides are below:
Accessing R from Python...Transactions, and Pondering their Use in Casinos
A couple of weeks ago, Bradford Cross of FlightCaster posted in Measuring Measures that transactions are the next big data category. I argue that they already are, and from reading his blog post, he seems to suggest this as well but I will admit that I think I missed his point. There are some clear examples of transactions and...
Introduction to statistical finance with R
During the first part of our meeting, Nicolas Christou gave an introduction of statistical finance in R, and presented a package he co-authored with previous PhD student David Diez (2010). Video of the talk is below: During the second part, … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
