First CCA pattern 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. The following post demonstrates the use of Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) for dia...
So I was hunting around for some data on disproportional electoral outcomes (when the proportion of voters cast for political parties is not close to the proportion of legislative seats that they win).Michael Gallagher keeps an updated version of his L...
Maxim's iButton Thermochron temperature dataloggers are little silver doo-dads the size of a large watch battery that can record up to 2048 time-stamped temperature values. The internal battery is usually good for a few years of use. Maxim supplies a J...
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...
The following function "exp.mat" allows for the exponentiation of a matrix (i.e. calculation of a matrix to a given power). The function follows three steps:1) Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the matrix2) Exponentiation of the singular ...
Computer Assisted Reporting This article describes technical analysis of the Kansas voter
Geocode and reverse geocode your data using, R, JSON and Google Maps' Geocoding APITo geocode and reverse geocode my data, I use Google's Geocoding service which returns the geocoded data in a JSON. I will recommend that you register with Google Maps A...
This R code draws individual growth plots as shown in “Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence” by Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett, an excellent book on multilevel modeling and survival analysis. This c...
Some R code designed for ggplot2 0.8.9 is not compatible with ggplot2 0.9.0, and today the ggplot2 web site has outdated documentation which gives this broken example: Dennis Murphy points to the ggplot2 0.9.0 transition guide from where I derived R...
Ridiculous OrbThis is really the last one on this theme for a while... I had alluded to a combination of methods regarding xyz interpolation at the end of my last post and wanted to demonstrate this in a final example.The ridiculousness that you see ab...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
