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Bot Botany – K-Means and ggplot2

September 2, 2010
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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...

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Bot Botany – K-Means and ggplot2

September 2, 2010
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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...

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Better than Average

August 31, 2010
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Better than Average

The NIST's The Engineering Statistics Handbook includes an Introduction to Time Series Analysis which provides a great way of demonstrating how R can be used to make such calculations.  This post replicates the analys...

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Better than Average

August 31, 2010
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Better than Average

The NIST's The Engineering Statistics Handbook includes an Introduction to Time Series Analysis which provides a great way of demonstrating how R can be used to make such calculations.  This post replicates the analys...

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Even Simpler Multivariate Correlated Simulations

August 31, 2010
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Even Simpler Multivariate Correlated Simulations

So after yesterday’s post on Simple Simulation using Copulas I got a very nice email that basically begged the question, “Dude, why are you making this so hard?” The author pointed out that if what I really want is a Gaussian correlation structure for Gaussian distributions then I could simply use the mvrnorm() function from

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Sweet bar chart o’ mine

August 30, 2010
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Sweet bar chart o’ mine

Last week I was asked to visualise some heart rate data from an experiment. ... The standard way of displaying a time series (that is, a numeric variable that changes over time) is with a line plot. ... The experimenters, however, wanted a bar chart. I hadn't considered this use of a barchart before, so it was interesting...

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US House Election Results Visualized Five Ways

August 30, 2010
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US House Election Results Visualized Five Ways

The Democratic major-party vote share of US House elections 2002-2008 visualized 5 different ways.

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GEO database: curation lagging behind submission?

August 30, 2010
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GEO database: curation lagging behind submission?

I was reading an old post that describes GEOmetadb, a downloadable database containing metadata from the GEO database. We had a brief discussion in the comments about the growth in GSE records (user-submitted) versus GDS records (curated datasets) over time. Below, some quick and dirty R code to examine the issue, using the Bioconductor GEOmetadb

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Fractals in R

August 27, 2010
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Fractals in R

Atte Tenkanen had a blog on fractals using R for a time. Much of his source code is still available online.  To produce his version of the Mandelbrot set:source('http://users.utu.fi/attenka/mandelbrot_set.R')Fractals (such...

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Fractals in R

August 27, 2010
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Fractals in R

Atte Tenkanen had a blog on fractals using R for a time. Much of his source code is still available online.  To produce his version of the Mandelbrot set:source('http://users.utu.fi/attenka/mandelbrot_set.R')Fractals (such...

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