On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the US Supreme Court heard two landmark cases related to same-sex marriage rights in this country. Simultaneously, to show solidarity for the cause of civil rights for gay members of society, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile pictures to a red equality symbol at the suggestion of the Human Rights Campaign. Most...
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R / Finance 2013 Open for Registration
The annoucement below just went to the R-SIG-Finance list. More information is as usual at the R / Finance page: Now open for registrations: R / Finance 2013: Applied Finance with R May 17 and 18, 2013 Chicago, IL, USA The registration for R/Fin...
Open Data Exchange 2013, April 6. Montreal
UPDATE: The day was great! There are many people doing really amazing things with open data and it was amazing to meet them. Here are my slides from the panel talk. Next Saturday, I’ll be sitting on a panel discussing future avenues for open data at ODX13. From the odx13 site: Odx13 is a mini-conference 
latent Gaussian model workshop in Reykjavik
An announcement for an Icelandic meeting next September, meeting I would have loved to attend (darn!)… This meeting is sponsored by the BayesComp session, of course!!! We are pleased to announce that the University of Iceland will host the 3rd Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications (LGM). The workshop will be 
Generate GIS integrated animation:Gun deaths animation – R
# I wanted to briefly revisit a previous post in order to update the graphics.# The code used in the previous post has also become more useful since the database of guns deaths has tripled since the original post (yay!).# If you would like to generate ...
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author = "Ben Ogorek"
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doc1 <- "Stray cats are running all over the place. I see 10 a day!"
doc2 <- "Cats are killers. They...What’s New in 6.2: Stepwise Regression for Big Data
by Thomas Dinsmore This is the third in a series of posts highlighting new features in Revolution R Enterprise Release 6.2, which is scheduled for General Availability April 22. This week's post features our new Stepwise Regression capability. The Stepwise process starts with a specified model and then sequentially adds into or removes from the model the variable that...
Massive online data stream mining with R
A few weeks ago, the stream package has been released on CRAN. It allows to do real time analytics on data streams. This can be very usefull if you are working with large datasets which are already hard to put in RAM completely, let alone to build some statistical model on it without getting into RAM problems.
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Ordinal data with JAGS
Last week is had a look at the standard R routines for estimating models for ordinal data. This week, I want to have a look at JAGS for examining the same data. To be honest, most of it is taking an example (inhaler) and removing code. To my surpr...
April 18, 2013Third Milano R net meeting: agenda
April 18, 2013 - 18:00 - 21:00 Fiori Oscuri Bistrot & Bar (www.fiorioscuri.it) Via Fiori Oscuri, 3 - Milano (Zona Brera) 18.00 - 18.15 Registration 18.15 - 18.30 Welcome presentation Andrea Spanò, Partner at Quantide 18.30 - 19.00 Digit recognition Machine … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
