This week version 0.8.3 of RAppArmor appeared on CRAN. RAppAmor is a package to dynamically enforce security policies and hardware restrictions in R on Linux systems. It currently supports Ubuntu 12.04+, Debian 7 and OpenSuse 12.1+. The readme page has more info, and helpful video tutorials to get you started. One important change in the ...
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Estimated Follower Accession Charts for Twitter
Just over a year or so ago, Mat Morrison/@mediaczar introduced me to a visualisation he’d been working on (How should Page Admins deal with Flame Wars?) that I started to refer to as an accession chart (Visualising Activity Around a Twitter Hashtag or Search Term Using R). The idea is that we provide each entrant 
Subtraction Is Crazy
I was re-reading Michael Murray’s explanation of cointegration:
and marvelling at the calculus.
Calculus blows my mind sometimes. Like, hey guess how much we can do with subtraction.
— protëa(@isomorphisms) March 28, 2013
Of course it’s not any subtraction. It’s subtracting a function from a shifted version of itself. Still doesn’t sound like a universal revolution.
(But of course the...
The R-Podcast Episode 12: Using Version Control with R
Gary King and Stuart Shieber on Open Access
Harvard Professors Gary King and Stuart Shieber provide advice to graduate students about open access, dissertations, and journal publishing. They explain how freely available publications are essential to the scientific community, but also benefit your own career. King suggests a clever way of dealing with publisher copyright agreements to prevent locking up your work behind ...
Easter
This morning, there was an interesting post entitled “why does Easter move around so much?” online on http://economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/… In my time series classes, I keep saying that sometimes, series can exhibit seasonlity, but the seasonal effect can be quite irregular. It is the cas for river levels, where snowmelt can have a huge impact, and it is irregular. Similarly, chocolate sales...
Facebook profile photo changes reveal trends in support for same-sex marriage
On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the US Supreme Court heard two landmark cases related to same-sex marriage rights in this country. Simultaneously, to show solidarity for the cause of civil rights for gay members of society, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile pictures to a red equality symbol at the suggestion of the Human Rights Campaign. Most...
Julia builds for Ubuntu precise/quantal
I wanted to play a bit Julia, the new language for technical computing, but no binaries were available yet for current versions of Ubuntu. So I decided to try and build them myself by backporting the julia 1.2.0 source package available in Sid and Raring. On Quantal, the packages were building out of the box. ...
Open Data Exchange 2013, April 6. Montreal
UPDATE: The day was great! There are many people doing really amazing things with open data and it was amazing to meet them. Here are my slides from the panel talk. Next Saturday, I’ll be sitting on a panel discussing future avenues for open data at ODX13. From the odx13 site: Odx13 is a mini-conference 
Benford law and lognormal distributions
Benford’s law is nowadays extremely popular (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/…). It is usually claimed that, for a given set data set, changing units does not affect the distribution of the first digit. Thus, it should be related to scale invariant distributions. Heuristically, scale (or unit) invariance means that the density of the measure (or probability function) should be proportional to...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
