For reasons beyond my understanding, the user 2013 committee didn’t register a domain name for the website, and the official address of the conference is: http://161.67.142.97/congresos/useR-2013/. Not only is this impossible to remember for humans, but it won’t show up in search engines. So I decided to help them out and invest 8 euro to ...
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Math symbols in R charts: a cheat sheet
If you're creating a scientific graphic in the R language, there's a good chance you'll be wanting to include some mathematical symbols somewhere on the chart. You might want to use a symbol like μ as an axis label, annotate a curve with simple math like x2, or even put a complete equation like: in the title. You can...
Never too experienced to make a basic mistake
I was one of the 170 or so people at the Data Science hackathon in London over the weekend. As always this was well run by Carlos and his team who kept us fed, watered and connected to the Internet. One of the three challenges involved a dataset containing pairs of Twitter users, A and
Mathematical abstraction and the robustness to assumptions
I’ve been showing my new favourite toys to just about anyone foolish enough to actually engage me in conversation. I described how my shiny new set of non-transitive dice work here, complete with a map showing all the relevant probabilities. All was neat and tidy and wonderful until fellow ecologist, Aaron Ball, tried to burst 
Travis CI for R! (not yet)
A few days ago I wrote about Travis CI, and was wondering if we could integrate the testing of R packages into this wonderful platform. A reader (Vincent Arel-Bundock) pointed out in the comments that Travis was running Ubuntu that allows you to install software packages at your will.
I took a look at the documentation, and realized...
Reserving with negative increments in triangles
A few months ago, I did published a post on negative values in triangles, and how to deal with them, when using a Poisson regression (the post was published in French). The idea was to use a translation technique: Fit a model not on ‘s but on , for some , Use that model to make predictions, and then...
In case you missed it: March 2013 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from March of particular interest to R users. Facebook used R to analyze profile photo changes to create a map of same-sex marriage support in the USA. Joe Rickert contrasts random sampling with fitting models directly to large data sets. A presentation by Carlos Somohano summarizes the history, skills and...
R and social media
R is a piece of software, but it is also a community. Help community The most visible aspect of the R community is help. This is also the most useful to new users. The initial sense of cooperation with R was driven mainly by people helping each other. You don’t need to actively participate in
The post R...
A few lists for data scientists and statisticians
Looking for more resources on the web or people to follow on Twitter? Here are some lists you may find useful: 100 Savvy Sites on Statistics, which includes 17 sites that focus on R Programming Kalido offers this list of 30 influential data scientists on Twitter Big Data Republic is taking votes for this list of 100 influential tweeters...
Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R
Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote about this last year, also see here) and spatial analysis. Interest in R ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
