This is a short follow up on THIS posting.. I will briefly show how to use the dismo- and the googeVis package to plot species occurrences on an interactive Google map, like the one below (HERE is the R-script)
Religious restrictions index: how do countries compare?
The Guardian DataBlog published yesterday an interesting article exploring graphically the religious intolerance across the world. The data are coming from a report published by Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. I like the philosophy DataBlog a lot, providing the raw data for everyone to look at.
However, I felt that the visualization could be...
googleVis — Diaoyu Islands
China just announced the Diaoyu Islands baselines yesterday (US EST). Take a look at their locations (Clike here for the google map).
R Package Vignettes with Markdown
What is the best resource to learn an R package? Many R users know the almighty question mark ? in R. For example, type ?lm and you will see the documentation of the function lm. If you know nothing about a package, you can take a look at the HTML help...
Interactive web graphs with R – Overview and googleVis tutorial
Today I feel very lucky, as I have been invited to the Royal Statistical Society conference to give a tutorial on interactive web graphs with R and googleVis. I prepared my slides with RStudio, knitr, pandoc and slidy, similar to my Cambridge R talk. ...
Facts About R Packages (2)
R Packages All Well maintained? There are so many R packages, can they all be trusted? or are they well maintained? To answer this question, we just need to take a look of their archive histories. If a package has many versions, we can take that as th...
Facts About R Packages (1)
R Packages growth Curve Why R is so popular? There are a lot of reasons, such as: easy to learn and convenient to use, active community, open source, etc. Another important reason is the numerous contributed packages. Up to yesterday, there are 4033 R...
googleVis — NASA’s exploration of Mars
After generating a few interactive charts with googleVis, I realized that it’s a great way to visualize numeric data, especially multi-dimentional data. Days ago, my colleague sent me a picture taken by Curiosity from Mars. He was crazy about it … Continue reading →
Kaggle Prospect – Harvard Business Review
I used the subject lines for all the articles and all the years and mapped the articles into one of the following 18 categories
- Business Ethics
- Business Management
- Crisis
- Emerging Markets
- Financial Performance
- Health Care
- Information Technology
- Labor
- Leadership
- Management Systems
- Marketing Strategy
- Regulation
- Social Media
- Stock Market
- Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain
- United States & World
- Women & Management
Changes in...
London 2012 Olympics — Medals vs GDP and population
It’s already midnight. I’m sitting near my bed. And before going to bed, I’ll type my last post on London 2012 Olympics. Olympic games are not only individual competitions, but also the reflections of countries’ strength. This is one reason why Olympics data … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
