On May 8, we kicked off the transformation of R Users DC to Statistical Programming DC (SPDC) with a meetup at iStrategyLabs in Dupont Circle. The meetup, titled “Stepping up to big data with R and Python,” was an … Continue reading →
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It's been one week since the 5th Annual R/Finance conference, and I finally feel sufficiently recovered enough to share my thoughts. The conference is a two-day whirlwind of applied quantitative finance, fantastic networking, and general geekery.
The comments below are based on my personal experience. If I don't comment on a seminar or presentation, it doesn't mean I...
This is a guest article by Nina Zumel and John Mount, authors of the new book Practical Data Science with R. For readers of this blog, there is a 50% discount off the “Practical Data Science with R” book, simply by using the code pdswrblo when reaching checkout (until …
The USGS recently released a way to search for and get species occurrence records for the USA. The service is called BISON (Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation). The service has a web interface for human interaction in a browser, and two APIs (application programming interface) to allow machines to interact with their database. One of the...
This is the second part of the forecasting exercise, where I am looking at a multiple regression. To keep it simple I chose the states that boarder WI and the US unemployment information for the regression. Again this is a down and dirty analysis, I wo...
I wanted to see what I could do in a hurry using the commands found at Forecasting: Principles and Practice . I chose a simple enough data set of Wisconsin Unemployment from 1976 to the present (April 2013). I kept the last 12 months worth of...
# As a homage to Yitang Zhang who has proven a mind-bending property of Prime Pairs, I have written a prime Sieve to detect all of the prime numbers from 1 to N. # There might very well be a function in the base package that already does this. No...
(This article was first published on G-Forge » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) An alternative bezier arrow to the regular grid-bezier. Apart from a cool gradient it has the advantages of: exact width, exact start/end points and axis alignment. About two weeks ago I got frustrated with the bezierGrob function in the grid package. The lwd parameter is...
If you want to create rainfall maps for the whole world in R there is no readily available code or package to do this. Moreover, data publicly available from research institutions is not generally in plain text format or other familiar formats. Hydrological and climatological studies sometimes require rainfall data over the entire world for long periods of time....
Every month I see one or more new R based web server solutions coming into the market, sight seeing some of them thought of sharing one of my old architecture map manifested to the client long back in early 2009 (good to see quick spreading of scalable...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
