R-Bloggers has recently been buzzing about Julia, the new kid on the statistical programming block. Julia, however, is hardly the sole contender for the market of R defectors, with Clojure-fork Incanter generating buzz as well. Even with these two making noise, I think there’s a huge point that everyone is missing, and it’s front-and-center on
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Getting Historical Weather Data in R and SAP HANA
For many of my latest data blogs, I needed historical weather data to perform data mash-ups to pin-point the cause. For example, for my continued exploration into the airlines/airports historical data using SAP HANA and R, I wanted to find out wh...
Big Data, R and HANA: Analyze 200 Million Data Points and Later Visualize Using Google Maps
Technologies: SAP HANA, R, HTML5, D3, Google Maps, JQuery and JSONFor this fun exercise, I analyzed more than 200 million data points using SAP HANA and R and then brought in the aggregated results in HTML5 using D3, JSON and Google Maps APIs. Th...
Tracking SFO Airport’s Performance Using R, HANA and D3
This is my first introduction to D3 and I am simply blown away. Mike Bostock (@mbostock), you are genius and thanks for creating D3! With HANA, R, D3, HTML5 and iPad, and you got yourself a KILLER combo!I have been burning my midnight oil o...
Annotated source code
We programmers are told that reading code is a good idea. It may be good for you, but it's hard work. Jeremy Ashkenas has come up with a simple tool that makes it easier: docco. Ashkenas is also behind underscore.js and coffeescript, a dialect of ja...
BioStar users (of the world, unite)
Egon writes: Can someone please plot the BioStar users on a Google Map? Sounds like a challenge. Let’s go. 1. Harvesting user IP addresses BioStar user profiles (here’s mine) include a location field. It’s free text and optional, which means that location is missing or inaccurate for many users. However, if you’re logged into BioStar 
SyntaxHighlighter Brush for the R Language
al Galili requested in the R-help mailing list for a SyntaxHighlighter brush for the R language, so that WordPress users can highlight their R code easily. I promised to contribute a few minutes on this task, and here is the result: /** * Author: Yihui Xie * URL: http://yihui.name/en/2010/09/syntaxhighlighter-brush-for-the-r-language * License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 */
Top Five Open Source Projects of 2009
Every year, I single out what I think are the Top Five open source projects. This year, there's only one hold-over from previous years, and it's likely that I'm just going to give it a Lifetime Achievement Award and pick five others next year. 5. NetBe...
Creating Tag Cloud Using R and Flash / JavaScript (SWFObject)
ag cloud is a bunch of words drawn in a graph with their sizes proportional to their frequency; it’s widely used in blogs to visualize tags. We can observe important words quickly from a tag cloud, as they often appear in large fontsize. Tony N. Brown asked how to “graphically represent frequency of words in
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
