Computer Assisted Reporting In an online press release on Tuesday the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board announced they would put all 153,335 pages of PDF copies of the Scott Walker recall petition online later that day. The GAB announced the PD...
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Big media waking up to big data
A recent Globe and Mail column points out that by 2018 in the United States alone there will be a shortfall of 190,000 specialists with deep analytical talent. It is good to see that the mainstream media is waking up to the need for applied training in...
Eclipse and StatET 2.0 Install For Running R
The Eclipse IDE with StatET plugin, developed by Stephen Wahlbrink, is one of the more (maybe the most) full-featured options for running R. I’ve written about this combination before (previous post), but the highlights include a script editor wi...
R Tutorial Series: Citing R with EndNote
Unfortunately, due to the vexing complexities of academic style guides and the limitations of associated software packages, citing a non-standard name, such as Cher, Prince, or R Development Core Team can be problematic. Thankfully, I have discovered a...
Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC)
Pearson r correlation coefficients for various distributions of paired data (Credit: Denis Boigelot, Wikimedia Commons)A paper published this week in Science outlines a new statistic called the maximal information coefficient (MIC), which is able to eq...
Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA)
Maximum Correlation Analysis (MCA) (Mode 1; scaled) of Sea Level Pressure (SLP) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) monthly anomalies for the region between -180 °W to -70 °W and +30 °N to -30 °S. MCA coefficients (scaled) are below. The mode repre...
Teaching Assistant with R expertise needed in Toronto
Services of a teaching assistant (TA) are required for a course in Applied Retail Research at Ryerson University in Toronto. The course will run from January to April 2012. Experience with statistical analysis using R is required. For details on...
Loading OSU’s VGPM ocean productivity data in R
Oregon State University makes a set of ocean productivity data derived from satellite data available for download and use by researchers. The Ocean Productivity website explains the available data and how it was derived. I have put together a few R fun...
Working with Wisconsin Voter Data in Access 2007; Analysis with R.
Computer Assisted Reporting This technical note describes manipulation/analysis of Wisconsin voter registration data from June 2011. Wisconsin voter registration data can be purchased from the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board for $12,500, whic...
Another aspect of speeding up loops in R
Any frequent reader of R-bloggers will have come across several posts concerning the optimization of code - in particular, the avoidance of loops.Here's another aspect of the same issue. If you have experience programming in other languages besides...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).