This post shares the video from the talk presented On November 30 2011 by Dr Lyndon Walker (see Meetup page) at the end of year function for Melbourne R Users. Lyndon Walker (@lyndonwalker) has been using R for nearly half … Continue reading →
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Spatial Data with R
On September 14th 2011 Dr Alec Stephenson gave a talk on exploring spatial data with R (see Meetup page). The video of the talk is now available online. The talk provides a non-mathematical and entirely equation-free talk on visualizing and … Continue reading →
A Spatial Data Analysis GUI for R
I am excited to announce the addition of DeducerSpatial to the Deducer plug-in ecosystem. DeducerSpatial is a graphical user interface for the visualization and analysis of spatial data, built on Deducer's plug-in platform. In a previous post I illustrated how to user DeducerSpatial from the command line to add Open Street Map images to...
CloudStat: Learn & Do R on the Cloud CloudStat is a platform…
CloudStat: Learn & Do R on the Cloud CloudStat is a platform to learn and do R on the Cloud. With CloudStat, there is no more download, installation, update and maintenance. CloudStat decrease the R language learning curve besides collaboration. And it...
Reading Excel data is easy with JGR and XLConnect
Despite the fact that Excel is the most widespread application for data manipulation and (perhaps) analysis, R's support for the xls and xlsx file formats has left a lot to be desired. Fortunately, the XLConnect package has been created to fill this void, and now JGR 1.7-8 includes integration with XLConnect package to load...
Experiences with using SAS and R in insurance and banking
In July 2011, Hong Ooi presented an engaging talk to Melbourne R Users Group. Both David Smith from Revolutions and Eugene Dubossarsky behind the Analyst First movement have discussed the presentation. The video of the talk is now available for … Continue reading →
Create an animated clock in R with ggplot2 (and ffmpeg)
Because it’s Friday—and I needed to create this for a separate visualization—here is how to create an animated clock in R using ggplot2.
In just about 20 lines of code! And here is the clock…
I think this is a nifty way to show time elapse, rather than the windowed timelines I had used...
Getting into shape for the sport of data science: Screencast of talk by Jeremy Howard at Melbourne R Users
Jeremy Howard gave a talk at the Melbourne R User Group on 16th March 2011. Jeremy provided tips on how to successfully compete in data mining competitions. He showed how he combines R with other tools to build predictive models. … Continue reading →
Amanda Cox on How The New York Times Graphics Department Uses R
Last month, Amanda Cox from The New York Times Graphic Department gave a great talk to the NYC R Statistical Programming Meetup. I’ve just got around to uploading the video, which has been broken into a part one and part two. You can also view the videos embedded after the jump.
Amanda made...
Video Introduction to R Packages by Rory Winston – Melbourne R Users February 2011
On February 17th 2011 Rory Winston gave a talk on creating R packages at the Melbourne R Users Group (see Meetup page). Slides from the talk can be downloaded here. For more information about Rory check out his blog The … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
