This is my first blog since joiningR-bloggers. I’m quite excited to be part of this group and apologize if I boreany experienced R users with my basic blogs for learning R or offendprogrammers with my inefficient, sloppy coding. Hopefully writing for...
Well, the 2011 F1 season is not yet over. There is still couple of races left to wrap it up but I decided to quickly scrub the Formula 1 data of the F1.com website, such as the list of drivers, ordered by the approximate amount of salary driver is getting (top list driver is...
As a task for my Financial eco assignment I had to plot a simple time series of the overnight MIBOR(Mumbai interbank offer rates) for the past one year . The job could very well have been done easily in MS-Excel but I choose to plot it in R instea...
Edward Tufte has written extensively on the presentation of data covering good and bad practice. He has made a number of suggestions for adaptations of regularly used graph types to assist with the interpretation and understanding of data. One idea for enhancing scatter plots covered in Tufte’s book Beautiful Evidence is the use of...
Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 about 30% of...
!["My interpretation of [Leland Wilkinson’s] grammar [of statistical graphics]: —Data is the most…"](http://sites.google.com/site/chrisdwaggoner/ggplot.png)
“My interpretation of grammar : —Data is the most important thing, and the thing that you bring to the table. —Geometric objects … what you actually see on the plot: points, lines, polygons, etc. ...
In order to provide an option to compare graphs produced by basic internal plot function and ggplot2, I recreated the figures in the book, 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R, with ggplot2. The code used to create the images is in separate paragraphs, allowing easy comparison. Read more »
HardOCP has an image with an equation which apparently draws the Batman logo. Read More: 1295 Words Totally
Now that I have the FII and DII Inflow along with Nifty Index, I tried my hands on charting!The objective is to plot the Cumulative FII, DII and Net Inflow and Nifty Index for current year (2011) on a single graph. This post takes inspiration from Deep...
A word cloud (or tag cloud) can be an handy tool when you need to highlight the most commonly cited words in a text using a quick visualization. Of course, you can use one of the several on-line services, such as wordle or tagxedo ,...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
