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Here is the puzzle in Le Monde I missed last week: Given a country with 6 airports and a local company with three destinations from each of the six airports, is it possible to find a circular trip with three intermediate stops from one of the airports? From all of the ... [Read more...]

This google map display is just one of 230 GHCN stations that is located in the water. After finding  instances of this phenomena over and over, it seemed an easy thing to find and analyze all such cases in GHCN. The issue matters for a two reasons: In my temperature analysis ... [Read more...]

As Mark Twain said "the art of prophecy is very difficult, especially about the future" (well, actually I am not sure Mark Twain was the  first one to say so, but if you're interested by that sentence, you can look here). I have been rather su... [Read more...]

Here I present some functions I wrote to recreate some of the most common image effect available in all image editor.They require the library rimage.To load the image, use:y [Read more...]

Part of the reason R has become so popular is the vast array of packages available at the cran and bioconductor repositories. In the last few years, the number of packages has grown exponentially! This is a short post giving steps on how to actually install R packages. Let’s ... [Read more...]

Yes, I did just mix English, Spanish and French. And no, I living the “fishy” life, popular opinion to the contrary. Here’s the story. As someone who spends the majority of his time working online, with no oversight, I notice that I tend to drift a lot. I don’... [Read more...]

This text 'pedagocially' explains how the bms function works code-wise and is intended for people who prefer to program customized adjustments of the bms package. bms is the workhorse function to do the sampling part of Bayesian Model Averaging in the... [Read more...]

I first got interested in epidemiology when I saw the famous John Snow chart (in a Tufte book, I think?) which pinpointed the pump which caused the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. For some reason I'd gotten the impression that this was essentially the birth of epidemiology as a discipline, but ... [Read more...]

The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM is will hold its third data mining camp next Saturday (November 13) at the Ebay campus in San José. Like the previous camps, this will be a one-day "unconference"-style event, with an agenda developed ad-hoc on the day according to the ... [Read more...]

David Smith (alias @revodavid, see also on the Revolutions blog, here) pointed out that my R code was not easy to read (not only due to my computing skills, but mainly because of the typography I use). He suggested that I use the Pretty R tool (her... [Read more...]

Attended and thoroughly enjoyed Tuesday night’s New England R Users Group. We meet monthly in the Boston area to discuss the various ways in which people use and interact with the R programming language. Not surprisingly, we have a variety of industries represented. One of us is using R ... [Read more...]

Splines in regression is something which looks like a black box (or maybe like some dishes you get when you travel away from home: it tastes good, but you don't what's inside... even if you might have some clues, you never know for sure*). With spl... [Read more...]

The CrossValidated Q&A site is now out of beta and the new design and site name is live. New design The new design looks great, thanks to Jin Yang, our designer-in-residence. Note the normal density icon for accepted answers and the site icon depicting a 5-fold cross-validation (light green ... [Read more...]

If you have some R code to include in a document, especially a Web-based document like a blog post, the new "Pretty R" feature on inside-R.org can help you make it look its best. Given some raw R code, it will create a HTML version of the code, adding ... [Read more...]

This the final installment of a five-part article series. You can download the complete article from the Revolution Analytics website. Building a Business The value of R to business is borne out by the experiences of John Lucker and his team of advanced analytics professionals at Deloitte Consulting LLP. John ... [Read more...]

Ciudad Juárez became the most violent city in Mexico as a consequence of the vicious war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. So far more than 6,500 people have been murdered in this city since the war started. With the Juárez Cartel significantly weakened, 2010 is set ... [Read more...]

To quote from the preface to the first edition in Jeffreys (1961): ‘It is sometimes considered a paradox that the answer depends not only on the observations but on the question; it should be a platitude.’1 Generalized Linear Models : P. ... [Read more...]

   Complaints about the iPhone App Store are not uncommon among developers.  The submission process is frustrating at best, you can expect arbitrary rejections, and Apple's policies have not always been particularly open or welcoming. &... [Read more...]

I recently created RMongo, a database access layer to MongoDB in R as an R package. To install RMongo, download it from https://github.com/quid/RMongo/downloads Run: R CMD install RMongo_0.0.17.tar.gz I tried to mimic the RMySQL commands in RMongo. Bel... [Read more...]