More exciting news about MCMSki IV! First thing first, the 16 contributed sessions are now all-set, having gotten the stamp of approval from the scientific committee! Thanks to everyone who submitted a session proposal. (There were so many proposals that we alas had to reject some, as well as every single talk proposal… Sorry people: 
(This article was first published on Quantifying Memory, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In this post I show how to select relevant bits of the GDELT data in R and present some introductory ideas about how to visualise it as a network map. I've included all the code used to generate the illustrations. Because of this, if you here...
I am continuing in Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Lifeby Steven Strogatz. To get a feeling on it, I was building a group of things which have only a minute influence on each other are able to synchronize thei...
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 →
R is popular free and open-source software for graphics and data analytics. The Knoxville R Users Group is being formed to help people learn R and improve their skills with it. Three departments of The University of Tennessee are working together … Continue reading →
A few hours ago Peter Dalgaard (of R Core Team) announced the release of R 3.0.0! Bellow you can read the changes in this release. One of the features worth noticing is the introduction of long vectors to R 3.0.0. As David Smith …
********************************************************************* The 11th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2013) Canberra, Australia, 13-15 November 2013, http://ausdm13.togaware.com Join us on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 ********************************************************************* Data mining, the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) … Continue reading →
The registration for R/Finance 2013 -- which will take place May 17 and 18 in Chicago -- is NOW OPEN!Building on the success of the previous conferences in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, we expect more than 250 attendees from around the world. R users from...
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...
…or your money back.
author = "Ben Ogorek"
Twitter = "@baogorek"
email = paste0(sub("@", "", Twitter), "@gmail.com")
Pretend this is Big Data:
doc1 <- "Stray cats are running all over the place. I see 10 a day!"
doc2 <- "Cats are killers. They...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
