This Thursday (Jan 24th), 5:30pm, the good folks at Wajam are hosting a meetup of the Montreal R User Group. The event will be at Bolidea at 4115 St Laurent, Montréal, QC. Be sure to RSVP. From Benjamin Rollert: This is an opportunity for people interested in R to hang out at our office, eat 
Folks may debate the merits of the SHODAN tool, but in my opinion it’s a valuable resource, especially if used for “good”. What is SHODAN? I think ThreatPost summed it up nicely: “Shodan is a Web based search engine that discovers Internet facing computers, including desktops, servers and routers. The engine, created by programmer John
I just got a copy of Winston Chang's book R Graphics Cookbook, published by O'Reilly Media. This book follows now a series of O'Reilly books on R, including an R Cookbook. Winston Chang is a graduate student at Northwestern University but … Continue reading →
One of the great things about following blogs on R is seeing what others are doing & being able to replicate and try out things on my own data sets. For example, some great links on rapidly creating heat maps … Continue reading →
A previous post showed how to compute eigenvalues using the Armadillo library via RcppArmadillo. Here, we do the same using Eigen and the RcppEigen package. #include <RcppEigen.h> // ] using Eigen::Map; ...
In the introductory post of this series I showed how to plot empty maps in R. Today I'll begin to show how to add data to R maps. The topic of this post is the visualization of data points on … Continue reading →
From: http://www.r-bloggers.com/data-driven-science-is-a-failure-of-imagination/I think I like this distinction between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics: "we are nearly always ultimately curious about the Bayesian probability of the hypothesis ...
This has been a great year for my blog. I've seen tremendous growth in my subscribers. I look forward to engaging with and learning from my followers in 2013 and I plan to offer valuable content in return. If you're interested in following along, you can quickly subscribe via RSS or e-mail. I use Google
There is a popular expression in my country called “Gastar polvora en chimangos”, whose translation in English would be “spending gunpowder in chimangos”. Chimango is a kind of bird whose meat is useless for humans. So “spending gunpowder in chimangos” … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
