I ended my previous post by mentioning how one could imagine other ways of looking at the triathlon data with plyr and ggplot2. I couldn’t help but carry on playing with it so here are more stats and graphs from … Continue reading →
Posts Tagged ‘ fun ’
An R function to determine if you are a data scientist
“Data scientist” is one of the buzzwords in the running for rebranding applied statistics mixed with some computing. David Champagne, over at Revolution Analytics, described the skills for being a data scientist with a Venn Diagram. Just for fun, ...
The fun Package: Use R for Fun!
A couple of days ago we released a package named fun to CRAN, but I did not dare to send an announcement to r-packages@r-project.org as usual. This package is a collection of some classical computer games (e.g. the Mine sweeper and Five in a row) as well as other funny stuff. Some examples: ##...
Two Castles Run 2011
I did the Two Castles Run today; it’s a 10km race between Warwick and Kenilworth castles. The organizers were very quick to put the results online and even went the extra mile of offering them as a CSV file. It … Continue reading →
R-Node: a web front-end to R with Protovis
Update (April 6 – 2010) : R-Node now has it’s own a website, with a dedicated google group (you can join it here) * * * * The integration of R into online web services is (for me) one of the more exciting prospects in R’s future. That is way I was...
Analysis of Winter Olympic Medal Data Using R
The Winter Olympics are on. The Guardian's DataBlog has graciously compiled a database on Winter Olympic Medals. Thus, I thought I'd run a few quick analyses on the data in R. In this post I was hoping to show how one could quickly churn out ...
For fun: Correlation of US State with the number of clicks on online banners
“Chitika research” published today a fun small dataset (you can download it from here) in a post titled “The Educated are Harder to Advertise To”. In this post I had three goals in mind: Suggesting another plot instead of the one used in the original post. Emphasizing the “Correlation does not imply causation” rule. Inviting other R lovers...
Happy New Year with R
I have to admit that the previous post on Christmas is actually not much fun. Today I received another pResent from Yixuan which is more interesting: Basically the code deals with letter polygons (i.e. glyphs) and plot them with proper projections from 3D to 2D space: ## original code by Yixuan <yixuan.qiu@cos.name>, with my slight modification h.x...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
