The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full May edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Gaming Analytics FTW! Join us on 13Jun13 at 10:00 AM PDT for our webinar...
552 search results for "Finance"
Innovation Will Never Be At The Push Of A Button
@randyzwitch @benjamingaines @usujason I am envisioning the data science equivalent of an autonomous vehicle pileup. — Todd Belcher (@toddmetrics) May 16, 2013 Recently, I’ve been getting my blood pressure up reading (marketing) articles about “big data” and “data science”. What saddens me about the whole discussion is that there is the underlying premise that
R/Finance 2013 Is Coming Quickly…
There is about two weeks remaining until R/Finance 2013 - being held on May 17th and 18th at UIC in Chicago. Make sure you register beforehand to ensure you have a spot, and – yes - you do want to come to the conference dinner on Friday. I am particularly excited about the lineup of keynotes 
Revolution Newsletter: April 2013
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Now Available: Revolution R Enterprise 6.2. Released today, this update further enhances the performance,...
The Financial Crisis on Tape Part II
First, I would like to welcome all of you reading this via R-Bloggers. I have been a user of this superb resource for years and I'm proud that I now have the opportunity to contribute!In The Financial Crisis on Tape Part I I demonst...
Banging on the JGBs
Since I have not posted in quite a while, I wanted to let everyone know that I am still alive and kicking. The resurrection of excitement (opportunity) in the markets, quarterly reporting cycle, and the overwhelming number of unbelievable R/javascript releases have kept me from writing something good enough to justify a post. In the markets, Japan and gold...
GSoC 2013: At the starting line
Google Summer of Code will be open for students on Monday, April 22. The R Project has once again been selected as a mentoring organization , and a variety of mentors have proposed a number of projects for students to work on during this summer. Here’s a bit about the program, and more on the 
Classification Tree Models
(This article was first published on ExploringDataBlog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) On March 26, I attended the Connecticut R Meetup in New Haven, which featured a talk by Illya Mowerman on decision trees in R. I have gone to these Meetups before, and I have always found them to be interesting and informative. Attendees range from those who...
Optimization
Many problems in statistics or machine learning are of the form "find the values of the parameters that minimize some measure of error". But in some cases, constraints are also imposed on the parameters: for instance, that they should sum up to 1, or that at most 10 of them should be non-zero -- this adds a combinatorial layer to the...
R and social media
R is a piece of software, but it is also a community. Help community The most visible aspect of the R community is help. This is also the most useful to new users. The initial sense of cooperation with R was driven mainly by people helping each other. You don’t need to actively participate in
The post R...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
