Creating SQLite databases from R
How the Democrats may have won the House, but lost the seats
The 2012 election is over and in the books. A few very close races remain to be officially decided, but for the most part everything has settled down over the last week. By all accounts it was a very good night for the Democrats, with wins in the presidency, senate and state houses. They also performed
In case you missed it: October 2012 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. Sponsorships for local R user groups from Revolution Analytics are now open to applicants worldwide. During the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in the US, several R-based apps used public weather and social media data to document its impact, like this timeline of...
Using R to Compare Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Irene
Having just lived through two back to back hurricanes (Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012) that passed through the New York metro area I was curious how the paths of the hurricanes differed. I worked up a quick graph in R using data from Unisys. The data also includes wind speed and barometric pressure.
More data apps spawned by Sandy
As the clean-up continues on the eastern seaboard, I wanted to follow up on Monday's post on tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data with a couple of other R-based data applications spawned by the storm. Josef Fruehwald created an R script to tap into local weather sensors to keep track of air pressure, wind speed and rainfall near his...
Tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data and R
Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous, meteorological event for the US's East coast. Naturally, everyone is looking for the latest information and forecasts. Fortunately, the wealth of public meteorological data available on the open web, combined with real-time on-the-ground updates via social media, means that an ecosystem of on-line apps is now available...
Computing for Data Analysis (Simply Statistics Edition)
As the entire East Coast gets soaked by Hurricane Sandy, I can’t help but think that this is the perfect time to…take a course online! Well, as long as you have electricity, that is. I live in a heavily tree-lined area and so it’s onl...
Computing for Data Analysis (Simply Statistics Edition)
As the entire East Coast gets soaked by Hurricane Sandy, I can’t help but think that this is the perfect time to…take a course online! Well, as long as you have electricity, that is. I live in a heavily tree-lined … Continue reading →
‘Sandy’ Code Up On Github
UPDATE: As indicated in the code comments, Google took down the cone KML files. I’ll be changing the code to use the NHC archived cone files later tonight I will (most likely) not be littering the blog with any more updates to the ‘Sandy’ code unless they are really significant. You can follow along at
Watch Sandy in “R” (Including Forecast Cone)
As indicated in the code comments, Google took down the cone KML files. I’ll be changing the code to use the NHC archived cone files later tonight NOTE: There is significantly updated code on github for the Sandy ‘R’ dataviz. This is a follow-up post to the quickly crafted Watch Sandy in “R” post last
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
