1226 search results for "ggplot2"

Animating neural networks from the nnet package

March 19, 2013
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Animating neural networks from the nnet package

My research has allowed me to implement techniques for visualizing multivariate models in R and I wanted to share some additional techniques I’ve developed, in addition to my previous post. For example, I think a primary obstacle towards developing a useful neural network model is an under-appreciation of the effects model parameters have on model

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Analyzing Local Data with a Shiny Web App

March 19, 2013
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A great. recent enhancement for the Shiny App is the ability to upload local files. Now, in addition to users being able to interact with data provided on the host e.g. Soccer Tables or via the web, Wikipedia Search Rates they can use apps to view and analyse their own data I have knocked up

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The evolution of EU legislation (graphed with ggplot2 and R)

March 19, 2013
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The evolution of EU legislation (graphed with ggplot2 and R)

During the last half century the European Union has adopted more than 100 000 pieces of legislation. In this presentation I look into the patterns of legislative adoption over time. I tried to create clear and engaging graphs that provide … Continue reading

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Which political science journals will have a data policy?

March 18, 2013
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Which political science journals will have a data policy?

Making available replication materials for the research you do is A Good Thing. It’s also work, and it’s quite easy to never get around to. Certainly I claim no special virtue in this department so I am always happy when there’s an institutional stick to prod my better nature in the right direction. One such institutional

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Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression (part 2)

March 17, 2013
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Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression (part 2)

Second part on logistic regression (first one here). We used in the previous post a likelihood ratio test to compare a full and null model. The same can be done to compare a full and nested model to test the contribution of any subset of parameters: Interpretation of coefficients Note: Dohoo do not report the

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Scholarly metadata in R

March 16, 2013
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Scholarly metadata in R

Scholarly metadata - the meta-information surrounding articles - can be super useful. Although metadata does not contain the full content of articles, it contains a lot of useful information, including title, authors, abstract, URL to the article, etc.

One of the largest sources of metadata is provided via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting or OAI-PMH....

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How do I make my graphs?

March 15, 2013
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How do I make my graphs?

Someone who wishes to remain anonymous writes: I’ve been following your blog a long time and enjoy your posts on visualization/statistical graphics matters. I don’t recall however you ever describing the details of your setup for plotting. I’m a new R user (convert from matplotlib) and would love to know your thoughts on the ideal

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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

March 15, 2013
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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

March 15, 2013
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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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More sequential testing for triangle tests

March 10, 2013
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More sequential testing for triangle tests

I looked before at triangle tests and at sequential testing in triangle tests (blog entry). In the latter post it was demonstrated that a sequential test is possible, without costs in desired error of the first kind. The latter because t...

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