You may often use "Beta" to measure the market exposure of your portfolio because it's easy to calculate.Since I have been wondering how much "Beta" change depending on time, more precisely writing, data-set and the period of return time series, I...
Shown above is a queueing simulation. Each diamond represents a person. The vertical line up is the queue; at the bottom are 5 slots where the people are attended. The size of each diamond is proportional to the log of the time it will take them to be attended. Color is used to tell one
I have a few friends that keep bragging about their 14% annual returns by investing their money with Lending Club, a peer-to-peer lending service that cuts out the complexities and difficulties of getting approved for a loan through a bank. To give you an idea of the sheer amount of volume Lending Club has been
...some more playing with saveHTML, as.raster() and rasterImage(), producing a "flickering screen":Read more »
...I really dig the animation package! ..so here's the outcome of my firsts encounters with saveHTML() - I produced an animation with pre-existing images by utilizing the functions readJPEG() and rasterImage() from the R-packages jpeg and ReadImage...
The “animation” package is great for creating .gif files (of course, it also produces video and flash files thanks to Yihui Xie). By using this package, I would like to show you a nice spot in Wellington, NZ. At this … Continue reading →
I have a bunch of time series whose power spectra (FFT via R's spectrum() function) I've been trying to visualize in an intuitive, aesthetically appealing way. At first, I just used lattice's bwplot, but the spacing of the X-axis here really matters. ...
Sparks have been flying between my favorite data analysis language and my favorite programmer's Q & A site since long ago: R flirted with StackOverflow on September 10, 2008, 5 days before StackOverflow was even open to the public. R still hesitates to leave its original suitor, the loud and lively R-help mailing list, where
In recent months, IDV has taken steps to incorporate the powerful statistical engine, R, as a viable connection to Visual Fusion. R has a robust and growing set of libraries and a community that is constantly thumping away on improvements. ...
![Le Monde puzzle [#739]](http://xianblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lemonde739-e1315153639188.jpg?w=378&h=349)
The weekend puzzle in Le Monde this week is again about a clock. Now, the clock has one hand and x ticks where a lamp is either on or off. The hand moves from tick to tick and each time the lights go on or off depending on whether or not both neighbours were in 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
