There have been some very good visualizations of the Wikileaks data so I decided to create one of the drug war in Mexico
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Mapping drug war related homicides in 2010
Example 8.13: Bike ride plot, part 2
Before explaining how to make and interpret the plot above, Nick and I want to make a plea for questions--it's hard to come up with useful questions to explore each week!As shown in Example 8.12, data from the Cyclemeter app can be used to make interes...
The NYC Marathon
New York’s annual marathon took place yesterday. Watching a bit of it on television with my friends, I was struck by the much earlier starting time for women than men. Specifically, professional women started running yesterday at 9:10 AM, while professional men start running at 9:40 AM. (This information comes from the runner’s handbook.) I
A R wrapper for Google Prediction API
Since I got the chance to access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API (more details here and here), I decided to create a simple wrapper (just 4 basic functions until now) to be capable to play with the Google Prediction API ...
A R wrapper for Google Prediction API
Since I got the chance to access to both Google Storage for Developers and Google Prediction API (more details here and here), I decided to create a simple wrapper (just 4 basic functions until now) to be capable to play with the Google Prediction API ...
Livin’ la Vida Poisson
Yes, I did just mix English, Spanish and French. And no, I living the “fishy” life, popular opinion to the contrary. Here’s the story. As someone who spends the majority of his time working online, with no oversight, I notice that I tend to drift a lot. I don’t play solitaire, or farm for virtual
The dead of Juarez
Ciudad Juárez became the most violent city in Mexico as a consequence of the vicious war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. So far more than 6,500 people have been murdered in this city since the war started. With the Juárez Cartel significantly weakened, 2010 is set to be the most violent year yet...
Here are some statistics...
The dead of Juarez
Ciudad Juárez became the most violent city in Mexico as a consequence of the vicious war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. So far more than 6,500 people have been murdered in this city since the war started. With the Juárez Cartel significantly weakened, 2010 is set to be the most violent year yet...
Here are some statistics...
RMongo: Accessing MongoDB in R
I recently created RMongo, a database access layer to MongoDB in R as an R package. To install RMongo, download it from https://github.com/quid/RMongo/downloads Run: R CMD install RMongo_0.0.17.tar.gz I tried to mimic the RMySQL commands in RMongo. Bel...
Keeping up with election results, with R
Yesterday's US election is pretty much over now: most of the results are in, the pundits have offered their political analysis, and there's even been a bit of mathematical analysis of the results, too. But last night as the results were flowing in, R user Brock Tibert just wanted to track the results of the Massachusetts governor's race. The...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
