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Optimal Meeting Point on the Paris Metro

March 20, 2013
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tl;dr: Play with the app here

When you live in Paris, chances are you are (home or work) very close to a metro station, so when you want to meet with some friends, you usually end up picking another metro station as a meeting point. Yet, finding the optimal place to meet can easily become a complex problem considering...

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column-store R or: how i learned to stop worrying and love monetdb

March 18, 2013
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(This article was first published on asdfree by anthony damico, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) "Combining R's sophisticated calculations and MonetDB's excellent data access performance is a no-brainer. One gets the best of two (open source) worlds with minimal hassle." - Dr. Hannes Mühleisen"oh wow that was fast like a cheetah with a jetpack or something" - anthony damicowhy...

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How do I make my graphs?

March 15, 2013
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How do I make my graphs?

Someone who wishes to remain anonymous writes: I’ve been following your blog a long time and enjoy your posts on visualization/statistical graphics matters. I don’t recall however you ever describing the details of your setup for plotting. I’m a new R user (convert from matplotlib) and would love to know your thoughts on the ideal

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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

March 15, 2013
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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

March 15, 2013
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Calender Heatmap with Google Analytics Data

As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats

March 13, 2013
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John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats

In honour of the bicentenary of John Snow’s birth – and because I was asked to by someone via email – I have now released my digitisation of John Snow’s Cholera data in a few other formats: KML and as Google Fusion Tables. To save you reading my previous blog posts on the subject, I’ll

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A map of worldwide email traffic, created with R

March 12, 2013
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A map of worldwide email traffic, created with R

The Washing Post reports that by analyzing more than 10 million emails sent through the Yahoo! Mail service in 2012, a team of researchers used the R language to create a map of countries whose citizens email each other most frequently: The chart above shows the top 1000 country-country pairs by email frequency, arranged in a clustered network using...

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High Resolution Figures in R

March 12, 2013
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High Resolution Figures in R

As I was recently preparing a manuscript for PLOS ONE, I realized the default resolution of R and RStudio images are insufficient for publication. PLOS ONE requires 300 ppi images in TIFF or EPS (encapsulated postscript) format. In R plots … Continue reading

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Analyse Quandl data with R – even from the cloud

March 10, 2013
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Analyse Quandl data with R – even from the cloud

I have read two thrilling news about the really promising time-series data provider called Quandl recently: Quandl: A Wikipedia for Time Series DataQuandl package released to CRANWith the help of the Quandl R package* (development version...

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Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government

March 10, 2013
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Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government

Call for participation: DMApps 2013 – an International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry and Government in conjunction with PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14, 2013 http://dmapps2013.rdatamining.com To attend the workshop, you need to register for PAKDD 2013 … Continue reading

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