As long as I can't find the time to post my newest adventuRes, why don't you check out the great collection of other R-blogs on the web:www.r-bloggers.com Have fun! [Read more...]

Just as a quick reply to a friend of mine who suggested testing the swearing capabilities of The Dude:Click to enlarge.As you can see, "The Big Lebowski" (2.79 % swear words) takes the Tarantino threshold (0.98 %) easily, but it's no match against "Res... [Read more...]

Fortunately, there is a page called www.opensubtitles.org, where you can get subtitle (.SRT) files for virtually every movie. Now let's see what we can do with these. SRT files are in plain text format (human readable) and can thus be read quite easily... [Read more...]

Just a fast note: I came across the R-package "knitr" which enables you to generate PDF files by mixing LaTeX and R code in one document. The result looks very nice and is great to create documentations, manuals and so on. I find knitr much easier to u... [Read more...]

For Jan...I've got no data for "S.H.I.E.L.D." :(Maybe, but just maybe, "Firefly" gets the way-to-early-cancelled bonus by the voting community. [Read more...]

Today, let us have a look at movies. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has some data dumps available on their website. It's a subset of the information available on the IMDb site, but it's more than enough. I will spare you my code to convert these da... [Read more...]

Let's play around a bit more with the dataset we built in Part 1 of this series.Now we are going to compare data from more championships in Europe.Let's check out the first divisions from the following countries:- Germany (1. Bundesliga)- England (Premier League)- Spain (Primera División)... [Read more...]

Alright, now we have all the data we need in one dataframe. To make this code work, I assume you ran the code from Part 1. We need the dataframe big.tab.All the data presented here is based on the data from 18/10/2012. You can run an analysis with the actual ... [Read more...]

Teams with more money always win, right? At least they have a bigger chance of having success in their national championship. Let's look into that...NOTE: If you are not interested in the details of programming with R or getting data from the internet with it, you want to skip ... [Read more...]

Let's get that started ...Fun stuff with R coming soon!Disclaimer beforehand:The analyses I'll present are not meant to be taken too seriously in a scientific way. I just wanna show what you can do with R as a programming language, basic statistics and... [Read more...]