210 search results for "animation"

In case you missed it: February 2013 Roundup

March 13, 2013
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from February of particular interest to R users. How to resample from a large data set with RHadoop, and a video introduction to the RHadoop packages. A 90-second video explains: What is Revolution R Enterprise? Jeffrey Stanton has published a free e-book "An Introduction to Data Science" using R. I...

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Visualize major league pitching data with PitchRx

February 19, 2013
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Anyone interested in playing around with the data generated by the PITCHf/x cameras at major league baseball games should definitely check out the pitchRx package from Carson Sievert. Major League Baseball Advanced Media makes the data available for download, and this package provides an interface from R to the speed, position and pitcher data for just about every MLB...

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Temporal network model – Barabási-Albert model with the library igraph

February 17, 2013
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I found a golden website. The blog of Esteban Moro. He uses R to work on networks. In particular he has done a really nice code to make some great videos of networks. This post is purely a copy of his code. I just changed a few arguments to change colo...

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Incorporating Preference Construction into the Choice Modeling Process

February 15, 2013
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Statistical modeling often begins with the response generation process because data analysis is a combination of mathematics and substantive theory.  It is a theory of how things work that determines how we ought to collect and analyze&n...

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Extracting the Epidemic Model: Going Beyond Florence Nightingale Part II

February 7, 2013
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Extracting the Epidemic Model: Going Beyond Florence Nightingale Part II

This is the second of a two part reexamination of Florence Nightingale's data visualization based on her innovative cam diagrams (my term) shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Nightingale's original cam diagrams (click to enlarge)

Recap

In Part I, I showed that FN applied sectoral areas, rather than a pie chart or...

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Landmine detection revisited; the inverse unicorn problem

February 4, 2013
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Landmine detection revisited; the inverse unicorn problem

A couple weeks ago I wrote about an interesting idea to clear landmines using the power of the wind. A reader asked me to comment more on the value of using these wind-powered “Kafons” to do an initial assay of a suspected minefield, an idea I mentioned at the end of my video on the

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US Daily Gun Deaths R Animation – Sandy Hook

January 31, 2013
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US Daily Gun Deaths R Animation – Sandy Hook

R script# Listenning to NPR about gun deaths in the US got me thinking.# Find the article here:# http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html# Let's create...

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Animated graphs, another alternative for Data Visualization

January 24, 2013
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Animated graphs, another alternative for Data Visualization

The world of Data Visualization offers infinite variants to display our Data. However, there is still some reluctance in exploiting all the possibilities that computers give us nowadays in this field, probably not because of a rejection of novelties but … Continue reading

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2013-1 TimingManager: Animation Sequences in JavaScript

January 8, 2013
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The TimingManager library is a tool written in JavaScript used to apply animations in a web browser. It is not concerned with creation or modification of animation timing information, and delegates those tasks to R via the animaker package. Primarily … Continue reading

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How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R

January 4, 2013
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How to make your own 3-D sculpture with R

We've mentioned before how you can use R to design 3-D objects. Now, thanks to the latest version of the rgl package, you can produce real-world 3-D objects with R as well. The rgl package has long made it possible to create virtual 3-D objects in R, and export them as animations like this: But now, package author Duncan...

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