I have been traveling during the last two weeks. I visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on Oct 16 and the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins at the invitation of Simply Statistics on Oct 23. Today Christian Robert was visiting our department at Iowa State, and I also talked to him. It is really cool...
(Video link here, in case the embedded player doesn’t work for you.) Idea: see if I can mimic the idea behind Ben Schmidt’s lovely video of ocean shipping routes, and apply it to another dataset. But which? “Hmm… what’s another … Continue reading →
In honor of today’s announcement of the Nobel Prize for Roth and Shapley, I found an illustration of the deferred acceptance algorithm from 1962 in R. Credit for the code goes to the blogger at Letters from London, and I’ve included a Gi...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. You can now browse the R-devel sources and changelogs at GitHub. R is used to create a 3-D animation of the Antarctic ice cap. At the DataWeek SF conference, R users from eBay, Intuit, Minted and other companies describe how R is...
Last month we shared an visualization showing the changing extent of Arctic sea-ice. This visualization by the multinational Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) switches the view to the Southern pole and takes the visualization to a whole new level, by animating it in 3-D: The amount of sea ice in the Southern Ocean surrounding...
I am currently taking the networked life course on Coursera.org offered by Professor Michael Kearns from the University of Pennsylvania. I have been took several courses including machine learning, natural language processing since the platf...
As mentioned in the course on copulas, a nice tool to describe dependence it Kendall's cumulative function. Given a random pair with distribution , define random variable . Then Kendall's cumulative function is Genest and Rivest (1993) intr...
Today's guest post comes from Yihui Xie, author of the knitr package — ed. Hi, this is Yihui Xie, and I'm guest posting on the Revolutions blog to talk about one aspect of the knitr package: how we can integrate data analysis and reporting in R with the Web. This post includes both the work that has been done...
Using progress bars in R scripts can provide valuable timing feedback during development and additional polish to final products. winProgressBar and setWinProgressBar are the primary functions for creating progress bars in R. Progress bars, and progress indicators in general, are relatively uncommon in R programming. This makes sense, as they can add bloat and, being
The post Progress...
What is the best resource to learn an R package? Many R users know the almighty question mark ? in R. For example, type ?lm and you will see the documentation of the function lm. If you know nothing about a package, you can take a look at the HTML help...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
