September 2011

In case you missed it: August Roundup

September 8, 2011 | David Smith

In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users. A contest to showcase applications of R for businesses is offering $20,000 in prizes from Revolution Analytics. Three new open-source packages integrating R and Hadoop will be introduced by Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne ... [Read more...]

Interacting with bioinformatics webservers using R

September 8, 2011 | nsaunders

In an ideal world, all bioinformatics tools would be made available via the Web as a web service with an API, as well as a standalone package to download for local use. This is rarely the case and sometimes, even where one or the other is available, factors such as ... [Read more...]

A brief history of S&P 500 beta

September 8, 2011 | Pat

Data The data are daily returns starting at the beginning of 2007.  There are 477 stocks for which there is full and seemingly reliable data. Estimation The betas are all estimated on one year of data. The times that identify the betas mark the point at which the estimate would become available.  ... [Read more...]

Multiple plots with subplot in R

September 8, 2011 | Richard O. Legendi

I'm in the middle of creating a poster and wanted to compresss the content by transforming some of the charts into subplots of other charts.I made a little survey and found that there is a TeachingDemos library in CRAN that fits my needs. Well, the parameterization of the functions ... [Read more...]

Shared and reproducible computing with OpenCPU

September 7, 2011 | enguyen

While looking for an online computing provider, I bumped into OpenCPU.org: OpenCPU is a new initiative to make innovations in statistics, visualization and data-science more widely applicable. I guess the idea of online analysis and visualization, and online cloud R computing platform isn’t really new at this point ... [Read more...]

Analyzing big data in R: two presentations from useR! 2011

September 7, 2011 | David Smith

At last month's useR! 2011 conference at Warwick University, there were two talks on the RevoScaleR package for big data statistics in R. The first was a keynote presentation from Revolution Analytics' Chief Scientist, Lee Edlefsen. Here is the overview of his talk, Scalable Data Analysis in R: For the past ... [Read more...]

Hey! I made you some Wiener processes!

September 7, 2011 | Isomorphismes

Check them out. Here are thirty homoskedastic ones: __ homo.wiener for (j in 1:30) {  for (i in 2:length(homo.wiener)) {          homo.wiener[i,j] for (j in 1:30) {        plot( homo.wiener[,j],           type = "l", col = rgb(.1,.... [Read more...]

Link to StatDNA Guest Post

September 7, 2011 | Millsy

The post is officially up on the StatDNA blog. Go check it out.As I said in my previous post, this is a very rough and preliminary model. This is why my work was not any sort of formal entry, just some fun with some great data.I used an ... [Read more...]

R is a cool sound editor!

September 7, 2011 | Todos Logos

Capabilities of R are definitely unless! After my previous posts about some easy image editing in R (they are here, and here), now is the time to explore if R is capable of sound editing!Just for fun, here I created a function that receives a phone number (or another ... [Read more...]

A simple example for writting parallel code

September 7, 2011 | Markus (cloudnumbers.com)

Today, programmers have to deal with multi-core and multi-computer technologies. Several people claim that software developers are far behind hardware technologies. My two favorite posts for this statement are Editor’s Desk: Software Lags Behind Hardware, But That’s a Good Thing A Hacker’s Craic -Why is software so ... [Read more...]

2011 Perth City to Surf Stats

September 6, 2011 | nzcoops

Like every year, August sees the thousands taking part in the Perth City to Surf, and with that comes the chance for some stats. Why? Curiosity more than anything, and to convince myself that my time in the 12km run … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Fortune: Data Science is the hot new job

September 6, 2011 | David Smith

An article in the September 5 issue of Fortune Magazine notes that despite the economy, companies are scrambling to hire data scientists: Data scientists have been a fixture at online companies like Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) for years. But these days organizations as diverse as Wal-Mart (WMT) and Foursquare are ... [Read more...]

Bayes-250, Edinburgh [day 2]

September 6, 2011 | xi'an

After a terrific run this morning to the top of Arthur’s Seat, and then around (the ribs are feeling fine, now!), the Bayes-250 talks were exhilarating and challenging. Jim Smith gave an introduction to the challenges of getting different experts to collaborate on a complex risk assessment, much in ... [Read more...]

Webinar: Leveraging R in Hadoop Environments

September 6, 2011 | David Smith

On Wednesday September 21, Revolution Analytics' CTO David Champagne will give a live webinar introducing three new open-source packages for R and Hadoop, which make it possible to work with Hadoop data in R, and bring in-database R analytics to Hadoop. Here are the details: Date: Wednesday, September 21st Time: 10:00AM ... [Read more...]

Example 9.4: New stuff in SAS 9.3– MI FCS

September 6, 2011 | Ken Kleinman

We begin the new academic year with a series of entries exploring new capabilities of SAS 9.3, and some functionality we haven't previously written about.We'll begin with multiple imputation. Here, SAS has previously been limited to multivariate norma...
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Free R Book Collection

September 6, 2011 | Richard O. Legendi

I have just encountered some R PDF books that seem quite interesting. One of them is written by Venables himself.The Art of R Programming by Norman MatloffAn Introduction to R by W.N. Venables and D. M. SmithThe R Inferno by Patrick BurnsThe R Guide by... [Read more...]
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