New Events Thalesians (London) 2012 November 21: Isabel Ehrlich on “Basket Options with Smile”. Abstract: Due to the distinct lack of models for basket options that remain consistent with the market smile we look at approximations that are able to accurately replicate the volatility smile. Notably we turn to the use of an Edgeworth series … Continue reading...
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Webinar Tomorrow: Big Data Trees and Hadoop Connection in Revolution R Enterprise 6.1
Tomorrow at 9AM Pacific, Revolution Analytics VP of Product Development Sue Ranney will introduce two key Big Data features of the new Revolution R Enterprise 6.1. Now you can train classification and regression trees on data sets of unlimited size, quickly and using the resources of multiple processors and clusters. (This white paper describes our implementation of tree models...
SAP CodeJam Montreal
Thanks to an initiative of Krista Elkin, Jonathan Druker and myself ( with a lot of support from Craig Cmehil and Helena Losada ), SAP CodeJam Montreal is going live on Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 3 to 9 pm in the SAP Labs Montreal offices.This is...
Webinar Thursday: How R is used to optimize tractor production at John Deere
I just sat in on the rehearsal for Thursday's webinar by John Deere's Derek Hoffman, Order Fulfillment Forecasting at John Deere: How R Facilitates Creativity and Flexibility. Derek will give a spirited argument of why R is critical for the faming equipment manufacturer's operations: from forecasting demand for equipment, forecasting crop yields (they produce forecasts for more than half...
The New Madrid Fault – Past, Present and Future
Dear Sir,
In compliance with your request, I will now give you a history, as full in detail as the limits of the letter will permit, of the late awful visitation of Providence in this place and vicinity.
On the 16th of December, 1811, about two o'clock, A.M., we were visited by a violent...
Upcoming R training by Hadley Wickham: SF Dec 3-4, DC Dec 10-11
(By Hadley Wickham) Hi all, I’d like to let you know about four R training courses that RStudio will be offering in December: * Effective data visualization (http://bit.ly/TY2ONI) Dec 3. San Francisco, CA * Reports and reproducible research (http://bit.ly/RsZmYr) Dec 4. San Francisco, CA * Advanced R programming (http://bit.ly/RvZDsd) Dec 10. Washington, DC * Package development (http://bit.ly/UhTIWz) Dec 11....
"Advanced R" Course – November 15-16, 2012
This is the last post about the course. As places are limited, please register as soon as possible! Milano R net, in collaboration with Quantide, organizes "Advanced R" Course November 15-16, 2012 Course description This course is designed for those … Continue reading →
Two Talks on Data Science, Big Data and R
On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar on the topic of Big Data, Data Science and R. Titled "The Rise of Data Science in the Age of Big Data Analytics: Why Data Distillation and Machine Learning Aren’t Enough", this is a provocative look at why data scientists cannot be replaced by technology, and why...
Is it meaningful to talk about a probability of “65.7%” that Obama will win the election?
The other day we had a fun little discussion in the comments section of the sister blog about the appropriateness of stating forecast probabilities to the nearest tenth of a percentage point. It started when Josh Tucker posted this graph from Nate Silver: My first reaction was: this looks pretty but it’s hyper-precise. I’m a
Revolution Newsletter: September/October 2012
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full September/October edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. New R Courses Announced: Two new courses presented by Bob Muenchen (author of R...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
