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
Wetbulb Temperature
This google map display is just one of 230 GHCN stations that is located in the water. After finding instances of this phenomena over and over, it seemed an easy thing to find and analyze all such cases in GHCN. The issue matters for a two reasons: In my temperature analysis program I use a 
Updating meteorological forecasts, part 1
As Mark Twain said "the art of prophecy is very difficult, especially about the future" (well, actually I am not sure Mark Twain was the first one to say so, but if you're interested by that sentence, you can look here). I have been rather su...
ACM Data Mining Camp 3
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM is will hold its third data mining camp next Saturday (November 13) at the Ebay campus in San José. Like the previous camps, this will be a one-day "unconference"-style event, with an agenda developed ad-hoc on the day according to the interests of the attendee. With data scientists from the...
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...
An analysis of the Stackoverflow Beta sites
In the last six months or so, the behemoth of Q & A sites stackoverflow, decided to change tack and launch a number of other non-computing-language sites. To launch a site in the stackoverflow family, sites have to spend time gathering followers in Area51. Once a site has gained a critical mass, a new StackExchange 
Errors in Ghcn Inventories
In the debate over the accuracy of the global temperature nothing is more evident than errors in the location data for stations in the GHCN inventory. That inventory is the primary source for all the temperature series. One question is “do these mistakes make a difference?” If one believes as I do that the record 
R is Hot: Part 4
This is Part 4 of a five-part article series, with new parts published each Thursday. You can download the complete article from the Revolution Analytics website. High Quality Graphics, Made Easy R is especially useful for generating charts and graphics, quickly and easily. The ability to create visual plots of complex data is more than just a handy trick;...
Example 8.11: violin plots
We've continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba...
Upcoming R courses from Statistics.com
The online training provider Statistics.com has three great courses based on R coming up in the next few months: Nov. 5 - Dec. 3: "Graphics in R," with Paul Murrell Nov. 20 – Dec. 18: Support Vector Machines in R" with Dr. Lutz Hamel Dec. 17 - Jan. 22: "Geostatistics in R" with Prof. David Unwin The courses take...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
