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How Facebook and Google use R Interesting read.  rpart comes in handy again. [Read more...]

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We hosted the first Dataviz Salon SF on Tuesday night, with lightning talks by boredom cop Shane Booth, dataviz wiz Lee Byron , computational journalist Brad Stenger, data wrangler Pete Skomoroch , and any/all data enthusiast Brendan O’Connor . I was going to blog all about it — but Tom Carden of ... [Read more...]

In some statistical programs there is the option available to attach a footnote to the graphical output that is created. This footnote may contain the name of the script or the file that produced the graphic, the author’s name and the date of creation. In SAS for example there ... [Read more...]

One of the misuses of statistical terminology that annoys me most is the use of the word “correlation” to describe any variable that increases as another variable increases. This monotonic trend seems worth looking for, but it plainly is not what m... [Read more...]

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Every time that I read a paper that discusses the frequencies of single letters in English, I feel like I should sit down and calculate them for myself from a sample of English text. Today, I finally did. Here are the probabilities and negative log pro... [Read more...]

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Intended to be a customized solution, it may have grown to be a little more. forward.lmer is an early installment of a full stepwise function for mixed effects regression models in R-Project. I may put in some work to extend it, or I may not. Neverthel... [Read more...]

A few days ago, I started a new project called RInside by uploading a few files to a new SVN repo at R-Forge. RInside makes it easy to embed R into your own C++ application by hiding the nitty gritty of initializing an R interpreter behind a simple abstraction. More ... [Read more...]

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R offers several ways to spatially orient multiple graphs in a single graphing space. The layout() function and mfrow/mfcol parameter settings are adequate solutions for many tasks and allow the graphing space to be broken up into tabular or matrix-ba... [Read more...]

For any Princeton graduate students who are interested, here’s the success rate for graduate students applying for school housing. These charts were built using the data from the 2008-2009 Room Draw Statistics pamphlet provided by the Division of Hou... [Read more...]

I have got emails occasionally from JAGS users, asking about our new R package: R2jags. Basically, R2jags runs JAGS via R and makes postanalysis easier to be done in R. Taking advantage of the functions provided by JAGS, rjags a... [Read more...]

I was completely tickled last year with the oh so amusing Statz Rappers. It kept me and my nerdy stats friends laughing for days. Rapping. Stats. The Internet. Good times. But little did I know that rapping about statistics was really just hitting its stride on youtube. This is Why ... [Read more...]

I discovered a new, very useful, R function yesterday: ave. This is what it does: “Subsets of ‘x[]‘ are averaged, where each subset consist of those observations with the same factor levels.” But interestingly, you can use any function other than average. The output of that function is set against ... [Read more...]

Although the graphic at the left might not seem a 100% appropriate, it gives a hint to what I am about to do. I want to calculate all possible linear regression models with one dependent and several independent variables. I do not want to address bias and fitting issues or the ... [Read more...]

I found some useful websites showing examples of how to use R for various sorts of ANOVA (between, within, mixed designs, etc): Using R for Psychological Research Quick-R for SAS/SPSS/Stata users enjoy [Read more...]

There are various ways of getting your output from R to your publication draft. Most of them are highly efficient, but unfortunately I couldn’t find a function that combines the output from several (lmer) models and presents it in a single table.... [Read more...]