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Map of divorce in Mexico

May 19, 2012
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Map of divorce in Mexico

Keeping with this week's divorce theme, here's a map of the Mexican states where marriages are most likely to end in divorce. Perhaps not surprisingly, there seems to be an inverse correlation with the state percentage of the population that is catho...

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More Bixi Data Visualization

May 17, 2012
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More Bixi Data Visualization

I mentioned in a previous post that our team at the recent Hack/Reduce hackathon had some fun with a data set which consisted of Bixi station states at minute level temporal resolution. In addition to pulling out and plotting the flux at each station on an hourly basis, we also plotted the system state (number

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Global Homicide Rates by Government Type

May 16, 2012
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Global Homicide Rates by Government Type

Surprising resultsFor purposes of this article, any mention of homicide rates refers to reported homicide rates.Open vs ClosedIn mostly open countries (full democracies), the homicide rates are rather low when compared to other types of governments - e...

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Text Mining to Word Cloud App with R

May 13, 2012
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Text Mining to Word Cloud App with R

Here is a simple application to transform text into a beautiful word cloud, Text Mining to WordCloud. The purpose is to find out the highest frequency word in a certain text. It is an app built with R language, the source code is attached at the end of...

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Mariano Rivera’s baseball prowess, illustrated with R

May 11, 2012
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Mariano Rivera’s baseball prowess, illustrated with R

Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the Times creates data visualizations for print and online. In his latest post, he looks at how a visualization of the Yankee's Mariano Rivera performance compared to other Major League Baseball pitchers was created. (Detail below, click for the full image.) The...

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See R integrated with QlikView, Jaspersoft, Excel, and mobile apps

May 9, 2012
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In yesterday's webinar, Revolution Analytics CTO David Champagne demonstrated how to integrate statistical graphics and analytic computations created using R software with a variety of third-party applications. In each case Revolution R Enterprise Server is running as a compute server to the client application, with R scripts launched on each user interaction via the RevoDeployR Web Services API. David...

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Mapping US Radiation Levels in R

May 8, 2012
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Mapping US Radiation Levels in R

I have posted previously about the open data available on Socrata (https://opendata.socrata.com/), and I was looking at the site again today when I stumbled upon a listing of levels of various radioactive isotopes by US city and state. The data is ava...

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Heartbeat of a Cycling City: Bixi data at Hack/Reduce

May 8, 2012
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Heartbeat of a Cycling City: Bixi data at Hack/Reduce

The recent Hack/Reduce hackathon in Montreal was a tonne of fun. Our team tackled a data set of consisting of Bixi (Montreal’s bicycle share system) station states at one minute temporal resolution. We used Hadoop and mapreduce to pull out some features of user behaviours. One of the things we extracted was the flux at

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PubMed publications in 2011 by 202 world countries: who’s the winner?

May 7, 2012
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PubMed publications in 2011 by 202 world countries: who’s the winner?

Which country had the most PubMed citations in 2011? To find out I used R statistical software to analyze the affiliation of 986 427 articles.

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playitbyr 0.2-1: data through sound, now with layers, facets, and more pleasure

May 6, 2012
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The recent Sonification Handbook has a chapter devoted to exploratory data analysis using sound. With some help from Sam Ferguson, one of the chapter's authors, I've made it easy to implement those techniques using R with playitbyr.

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