The blog The Average Investors Blog R posted a nice report about accelerating a default Debian R installation and added some details about his benchmarks in the comment section
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Wikipedia for Kaggle Participants
Kaggle has released a new data-mining challenge: use data from 10 years of Wikipedia edits in order to predict future edit rates. The dataset has been anonymized in order to obscure editor identity and article identity, simultaneously adding focus to the challenge and robbing the dataset of considerable richness. I have some experience with wikipedia…
New cloudnumbers.com release
We are very proud to announce our cloudnumbers.com release number 5! In the last days we rolled out several releases and bug fixes. Cloudnumbers.com now supports many more features and has an optimized startup process. This is a list of our main and very important new features: Bioconductor packages for the R application can be
Meet cloudnumbers.com at the UseR2011 conference in UK
cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the resources to perform high performance calculations in the cloud. We currently focus on the well-known open-source statistics program R (http://www.r-project.org). R is a strongly functional language and environment for statistical computing. You can explore data sets, make graphical displays of data, run statistical simulations and much more. This
No lake is an island: PhD Opportunity
NERC recently funded the formation of the UK Lake Ecological Observation Network (UKLEON) as part of the its Networks of Sensors programme. UKLEON is lead by Ian Jones at CEH Lancaster. A fully-funded PhD project is associated with the UKLEON … Continue reading →
High Performance Computing in the Cloud with cloudnumbers.com
Who we are cloudnumbers.com provides researchers and companies with the resources to perform high performance calculations in the cloud. We help our customers to fight epidemics, develop highly advanced drugs and manage financial risk. Our aim is to change the way research collaboration is done today by bringing together scientists and businesses from all over
Cross de Bercy 2011 [v2&3]
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Following my (un)reasonable time last year, I registered again for the annual “Cross de Bercy” run by the Sport Club of the Finance Ministry (with whom/which CREST is affiliated). This is a two loop 10km race taking 
The ‘Big Analytics’ Revolution Starts with R: Webinar June 14
On Tuesday next week I'll be teaming up with Revolution Analytics' Mike Minelli to give a 30-minute webinar to introduce executives to R, Big Data, and applications of advanced analytics. If there's someone in your company who needs to know about the impact of R on getting value out of data, they can register here. Here's the agenda: The...
10 R One Liners to Impress Your Friends
Following the trend of one liners for various languages (Haskell, Scala, Python), here's some examples in RMultiply Each Item in a List by 2#listslapply(list(1:4),function(n){n*2})# otherwise(1:4)*2 Sum a List of Numbers#listslapply(list(1:4),sum)# oth...
ARMA Models for Trading, Part IV
All posts in this series were combined into a single, extended tutorial and posted on my new blog. The last post promised to show some back testing results for the ARMA techniques. I decided to use the S&P 500 index for this purpose. What really impresses me in the above char it the staggering performance 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
