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
Felipe Osorio made the above video to help people use the General Social Survey and R to answer research questions in social science. Go for it! Meanwhile, Tom Smith reports: The initial release of the General Social Survey (GSS), cumulative file for 1972-2012 is now on our website. Codebooks and copies of questionnaires will be
One of my graduate students worked some ggplot magic and created an almost Light Bright-esqe plot of our very own Goldy Gopher. She also, thoughtfully, published a tutorial on her blog. Read and enjoy!
It can be difficult to work your way through hierarchical Bayes choice modeling. There is just too much new to learn. If nothing else, one gets lost in all ways that choice data can be collected and analyzed. Then there is all this ou...
Summary This tutorial shows how to create diagrams with grouped bar charts or dot plots with ggplot. The groups can also be displayed as facet grids. Importing the data from SPSS All following examples are based on an imported SPSS … Weiterlesen →
For some reason, I didn't notice a few months ago the best way to perform a parallelized version of Lapply with package snowfall. We implemented the parallel version of function lapply with the function sfLapply, in the development of our pipeline p...
The folks at Rstudio have done some amazing work with the shiny package. From the shiny homepage, “Shiny makes it super simple for R users like you to turn analyses into interactive web applications that anyone can use.” Developing web applications has always appealed to me, but hosting, learning javascript, html, etc. made me put … Continue reading...
Customization in R. Basics Several features benefit from being customizable — either because of personal taste or specifics of the environment. The way R implements this flexibility is through the options function. This both sets and reports options. For example, we can see the names of the options that are set by default: > names(options())
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In this post I am goIing to summarize some of the things that I learned at Strata Santa Clara 2013. For now, I will only discuss the conference sessions as I have a much longer post about the tutorial sessions that I am still working on and will post at a later date. I will add to this post...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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