NERC recently funded the formation of the UK Lake Ecological Observation Network (UKLEON) as part of the its Networks of Sensors programme. UKLEON is lead by Ian Jones at CEH Lancaster. A fully-funded PhD project is associated with the UKLEON … Continue reading →
One of my teaching roles is in an introductory Genetics course, where first year students are presented with a wide range of new ideas at a relatively fast pace. It seems that often, students choose to take a memorization approach to learning the material, rather than taking the chance to think about how and why 
Yesterday (June 11, 2011) the BBC reported on comments by Prof. Phil Jones, of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia (UEA), that the warming experienced by the planet since 1995 was statistically significant. That the trend in … Continue reading →
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Following my (un)reasonable time last year, I registered again for the annual “Cross de Bercy” run by the Sport Club of the Finance Ministry (with whom/which CREST is affiliated). This is a two loop 10km race taking 
One of the routine tasks palaeoecologists do is plot data on species composition or geochemical proxies say along a sediment core or stratigraphic sequence. These diagrams are the canonical way of displaying stratigraphic data in this field. An example of … Continue reading →
On Tuesday next week I'll be teaming up with Revolution Analytics' Mike Minelli to give a 30-minute webinar to introduce executives to R, Big Data, and applications of advanced analytics. If there's someone in your company who needs to know about the impact of R on getting value out of data, they can register here. Here's the agenda: The...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. A review of "R Cookbook", a new how-to book for R programmers. A detailed example of using the RevoScaleR package to analyze a large airline data set. A new guide for R beginners, "How to Learn R", provides links to R resources,...
Following the trend of one liners for various languages (Haskell, Scala, Python), here's some examples in RMultiply Each Item in a List by 2#listslapply(list(1:4),function(n){n*2})# otherwise(1:4)*2 Sum a List of Numbers#listslapply(list(1:4),sum)# oth...
Today, I encountered an interesting problem while processing a data set of mine. My data have observations on businesses that are repeated over time. My data set also contains information on longitude and latitude of the business location, but unfort...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
