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Gone Guerrill_ R on Our Data

August 16, 2010
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Here's a summary of some things we learnt about applying R to computer performance and capacity planning data in the GDAT Class last week.

  • Neural nets pkg nnet applied to CPU performance data in the Ripley and Venables book (see Section 8.10).
  • How to do stacked plots that Jim calls "spark plots."
  • Jim told...

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Gone Guerrill_ R on Our Data

August 16, 2010
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Here's a summary of some things we learnt about applying R to computer performance and capacity planning data in the GDAT Class last week.

  • Neural nets pkg nnet applied to CPU performance data in the Ripley and Venables book (see Section 8.10).
  • How to do stacked plots that Jim calls "spark plots."
  • Jim told...

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Consultants’ Chart in ggplot2

August 16, 2010
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Consultants’ Chart in ggplot2

Excel Charts Blog posted a video tutorial of how to create a circumplex or rose or dougnut chart in Excel. Apparently this type of chart is very popular in the consulting industry, hence the “Consultants’ Chart”. It is very easy to make this chart in Excel 2010, but it involves countless number of clicks and

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Introducing visualVaR.com

August 13, 2010
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Introducing visualVaR.com

After a month of on-again, off-again coding, I’ve finally completed a web site geared towards calculating the Value at Risk of the average investor’s portfolio. The site is visualvar.com. The big idea was to combine the statistical and visualization tools of R (especially ggplot2) with the web interface of Drupal. While I’m

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Baseball games: getting longer?

August 11, 2010
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Baseball games: getting longer?

ESPN's Bill Simmons (aka The Sports Guy) recently suggested that the primary cause of dwindling interest in Red Sox games by fans is that baseball games these days are too long. "It's not that fun to spend 30-45 minutes driving to a game, paying for parking, parking, waiting in line to get in, finding your seat ... and then,...

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Iris Data Set Visualization Web App in < 100 LOC

August 7, 2010
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Iris Data Set Visualization Web App in < 100 LOC




The iris data set pops up pretty regularly in statistical literature.  It consists of 50 records from three species of Iris flowers (Iris setosa, Iris virginica and Iris versicolor).   I came across it recently while reading

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Twenty rules for good graphics

August 6, 2010
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Twenty rules for good graphics

One of the things I repeatedly include in referee reports, and in my responses to authors who have submitted papers to the International Journal of Forecasting, are comments designed to include the quality of the graphics. Recently someone asked on stats.stackexchange.com about best practices for producing plots. So I thought it might be helpful to

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Are MLB Games Getting Longer?

August 5, 2010
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Are MLB Games Getting Longer?

On July 29, 2010, I had a flight from Denver to Cincinnati.  About an hour before boarding, I went to ESPN’s website and found a new article by Bill Simmons, a.k.a The Sports Guy (@sportsguy33 on Twitter).  The basic premise of this article is that a core group of fans is losing interest in Red

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ggplot2 gui: Major feature set complete

August 4, 2010
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ggplot2 gui: Major feature set complete

(Written by Ian Fellows) There has been quite a bit of progress on the ggplot2 graphical user interface since the last post. All of the major features have been implemented, and are outlined in the vlog links below. What remains is to fix bugs, improve interface elements, and listen to feedback from users (that’s you).

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U.S. Unemployment Data: Animated Choropleth Maps

August 4, 2010
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U.S. Unemployment Data: Animated Choropleth Maps

I was curious about creating maps with ggplot2 - and was happy to find that great minds have long since tackled this topic.  Folks who are interested in how to learn about R (and ggplot2) might be interested in the process.  (There should be ...

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