Over the last year and half, I have faced numerous challenges with geocoding the data that I have used to showcase my passion for location analytics. In 2012, I decided to take thing in my control and turned to R. Here, I am sharing a simpl...
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Hadley Wickham goes behind the scenes on ggplot2
Hadley Wickham, creator of the ggplot2 packages for R (as well as several others) will present a webinar on February 8 going behind the scenes of the popular graphics package. If you've never used ggplot2 before, this will be a great way to learn about the kinds of charts you can create with it; and if you're a regular...
SOPA and PIPA damage the Internet – R-bloggers off-topic post
Dear R people, It is a (VERY) rare event that I allow a non-R related content on R-bloggers. Today is one such rare a day. I do this in order to raise awareness of two bills in congress: H.R.3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act” and S.968 “PROTECT IP”, which could radically change the landscape of the Internet. These bills provide overly broad mechanisms...
Parallel R Loops for Windows and Linux
Parallel computation may seem difficult to implement and a pain to use, but it is actually quite simple to use. The foreach package provides the basic loop structure, which can utilize various parallel backends to execute the loop in parallel. First,...
R: Web Scraping R-bloggers Facebook Page
Introduction R-bloggers.com is a blog aggregator maintained by Tal Galili. It is a great website for both learning about R and keeping up-to-date with the latest developments (because someone will probably, and very kindly, post about the status of some R related feature). There is also an R-bloggers facebook page where a number of 
Homicides in Mexico 2010
The Mexican government had actually released preliminary homicide data...
Call for Abstracts for useR! 2012
The international R User Conference useR! 2012 will be held June 12-15 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a pre-conference full-day course offered on June 11. Participants are encouraged to submit a one-page abstract for oral or poster presentation at the conference. Half-day tutorials will be held in the morning and afternoon of June 12th. For tutorials,...
Revolution Newsletter: December 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full December edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Applications of R in Business Contest. A judging panel of industry experts and R...
Teaching Assistant with R expertise needed in Toronto
Services of a teaching assistant (TA) are required for a course in Applied Retail Research at Ryerson University in Toronto. The course will run from January to April 2012. Experience with statistical analysis using R is required.
For details on the course, please click HERE.
To apply or read more about the position, please
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
