Today’s Gist could actually end up being very useful to a number of you. It’s something of a trumped-up example, but it illustrates in very simple code how to do three interesting things:
This post is a brief follow-up to a question that appeared some time ago on the “The R Project for Statistical Computing” LinkedIn group, which I’m reporting here: How can I draw a map of MODERN Europe? Hi, I'm trying … Continue reading →
Having got my NHS Winter sitrep data scraper into shape (I think!), and dabbled with a quick Shiny demo using the R/Shiny library, I thought I’d tidy it up a little over the weekend and long the way learn a few new presentation tricks. To quickly recap the data availability, the NHS publish a weekly 
The email wasn’t a challenge but a simple question: Is it possible to run a multivariate analysis in multiple sites? I was going to answer yes, of course, and leave it there but it would be a cruel, non-satisfying answer. … Continue reading →
To get a feeling of SVM performance in trading, I run different setups on the S&P 500 historical data from … the 50s. The main motif behind using this decade was to decide what parameters to vary and what to keep steady prior to running the most important tests. Treat it as an “in-sample” test
The 2001 Census used a different set of Output Areas (OA) than the current 2011 boundaries; reflecting changes in the spatial distribution of the underlying population. For example, if an area has become more heavily populated since 2001, it makes sense that a previous OA might be split into multiple new segments. The ONS have provided
www.finn.no is the most popular website in Norway. It supplies a lot of features, such as booking flight tickets, finding job, renting and sales of houses, cars and other properties, etc. I just have some experience with it. I sold and bought cars, apartment and some other stuff. It’s very convenient. But just one thing I feel not convenient:...
Today’s short post will show how to make a simple map using map_data(). Let’s assume you have data in a CSV file that may look like this: Notice the lower case state names; they will make merging the data much easier. The variable of inte...
Last week I attended a seminar where a talk was given about the economic opportunities in the SAAAME (South-America, Asia, Africa and Middle East) regions. Of course a map was shown with those regions highlighted. The map was not that disimilar to the one below.
library(RColorBrewer)
library(rworldmap)
data(countryExData)
par(mai=c(0,0,0.2,0),xaxs="i",yaxs="i")
mapByRegion( countryExData,
...Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the Revolutions blog. Our first post was way back on December 9, 2008, and in the four years since we've been regularly posting about R, open source, statistics, big data, data science and other random things that happened to catch our eye. In fact, there have been 1488 posts published in the last...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
