We use frameworks like Ruby on Rails or ProjectTemplate to minimize the time we spend on irrelevant details. By definition, an irrelevant detail isn’t of interest to us. But how can we tell which details are irrelevant? This isn’t a trivial task and it seems to be, on the surface, a profoundly subjective matter. Thankfully,
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R’s time is now
Jeff Kelly of Tech Target has just published a feature article about R. While R has been around for almost 20 years now (R&R first started the project in 1993), "its time may have finally come", he says. One thing I really like about the article is how well it highlights R's flexibility and "top-notch" data visualizations. It includes...
Did what you write drive what I read?
GoogleReader allows you to track your activity, by representing the number of news items read and published by day and by hour. I use it quite a lot to stay up to date with the scientific literature (I subscribed to probably over 30 journals) and a bunch of other feeds. Stuff tend to accumulate faster
A quick ggplot2 hack (multiple dataframes)
I’m starting to get familiar with ggplot2, and I really like it. I just found a very quick way to use several dataframes within the same plot, provided that the dataframes share columns names. One obvious application is the production (…)
Ah Bach…
As announced by David Smith over at Revolution Analytics, a ggplot2 Case Study Competition is on... Rather than blogging for the last few days, I cobbled together an entry. It is not a particularly mind bending use of ...
Ah Bach…
As announced by David Smith over at Revolution Analytics, a ggplot2 Case Study Competition is on... Rather than blogging for the last few days, I cobbled together an entry. It is not a particularly mind bending use of ...
Confidence Bands for Universal Scalability Models
In the recent GDAT class, confidence intervals (CI) for performance data were discussed. Their generalization to confidence bands (CB) for scalability projections using the USL model also came up informally. I showed a prototype plot but it was an ugly hack. Later requests from GDAT attendees to apply CBs to their own data meant I had...
Confidence Bands for Universal Scalability Models
In the recent GDAT class, confidence intervals (CI) for performance data were discussed. Their generalization to confidence bands (CB) for scalability projections using the USL model also came up informally. I showed a prototype plot but it was an ugly hack. Later requests from GDAT attendees to apply CBs to their own data meant I had...
Competition: Data Visualization with ggplot2
The ggplot2 package for R is an amazing system for creating entirely new visualizations of data. It allows data analysts to tell a detailed, meaningful and yet easy-to-interpret story about complex and/or unusual data sets. To promote more data stories being told, ggplot2 author Hadley Wickham has organized a ggplot2 case study competition. Simply create a new visualization of...
Bot Botany – K-Means and ggplot2
So if you had a robot that was an expert at botany - would you have a bot botanist? Among other things, it would need to to distinguish flowers through vision and image processing, and be able to classify various kinds of plants based upon specif...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
