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How the expiration of the assault weapon ban affected Mexico

September 2, 2010
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How the expiration of the assault weapon ban affected Mexico

There has been a lot of attention paid to the role of US guns exacerbating the violence in Mexico. The assault-weapon ban expired on September 14, 2004, but with the recent spiraling of violence in Mexico the ban has attracted renewed attention. Just recently the Mexican President stood before the American Congress and blamed the assault weapon...

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How the expiration of the assault weapon ban affected Mexico

September 2, 2010
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How the expiration of the assault weapon ban affected Mexico

There has been a lot of attention paid to the role of US guns exacerbating the violence in Mexico. The assault-weapon ban expired on September 14, 2004, but with the recent spiraling of violence in Mexico the ban has attracted renewed attention. Just recently the Mexican President stood before the American Congress and blamed the assault weapon...

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Soil Properties Visualized on a 1km Grid

August 31, 2010
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Soil Properties Visualized on a 1km Grid

Fresno Area Urban Areas vs Irrigated LCC: grey regions are current urban areas A couple of maps generated from a 1km gridded soil property database, derived from SSURGO data where available with holes filled with STATSGO data. Soil properties visualize...

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Map colors

August 31, 2010
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Map colors

Reader P was kind enough to make us a new color map so I promptly played around with it and other parameters. Need to figure out how to drop the labels and ticks on the “map”  map.axes() is no help. In anycase, I had a day long struggle with my R set up,  its all

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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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SST with Raster. Complete

August 29, 2010
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SST with Raster. Complete

Update: new zip, correcting bug found by Steve  McIntyre: if(!file.exists(HadSST2ncdf)) downloadHADSST2() if(!file.exists(HadSST2ncdf)) downloadHadSST2() issue pending with another line as well. Checking raster versions. I’ve also, added some code into “downloadHadSST2″ that corrects for the “NA” problem with HadSST. (currently commented out). There is an issue with “ncdf” handling CF standards, which has been addressed in

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Subset views in R

August 28, 2010
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Subset views in R

I don’t know how to do this in R. So let me just say why I can’t. I wanted something akin to Boost‘s sub-matrix views, where you can have indexes map back to the original matrix, so you don’t create … Continue reading

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Patrick Burns is blogging

August 28, 2010
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Patrick Burns is blogging

Patrick Burns is the author of several helpful R resources, including A Guide for the Unwilling S User, The R Inferno, and S Poetry. He also wrote one of my favorite critiques of Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheet Addiction. His writing is witty, entertain...

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GRASS Can Make Pretty Maps

August 23, 2010
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GRASS Can Make Pretty Maps

I have posted a couple examples in the past on the topic of high quality map production from GRASS GIS-- usually via the Generic Mapping Tools. I am not sure why, but I have previously avoided using the traditional cartographic output module that is bu...

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Taking R to the Limit: Parallelism and Big Data

August 23, 2010
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In a two-part series at the Los Angeles R User Group, Ryan Rosario took a look at the many ways you can take the R language to the limits of high-performance computing. In Part I (see video at this link; slides and code also available), Ryan focuses on the various methods of parallel computing in R. There's some great...

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