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Revolution Analytics' Joe Rickert has a new post on inside-R.org, demonstrating how you can use R and the RevoScaleR package to extract time series data from time-stamped logs (in this case, the "US Domestic Flights From 1990 to 2009" dataset on Infochimps): Analyzing time series data of all sorts is a ... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data.   In my last post, I demonstrated how to backtest a simple momentum-based stock trading strategy ... [Read more...]

Some pictures to explore the reality of the theory that stocks with higher beta should have higher expected returns. Figure 2 of “The effect of beta equal 1″ shows the return-beta relationship as downward sloping.  That’s a sample of size 1.  In this post we add six more datapoints. Data The exact ... [Read more...]

update Henrik Bengtsson commented that which(x, arr.ind=TRUE) gives the same result, rendering the blog below academic (thanks for the comment!). So, for academic interest, I'll leave it. In my defense, I implemented this kind of functionality in C some time … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Users of our Google Earth interface to USDA-NCSS soils information will now see links to soil-landscape block diagrams listed within map unit descriptions. Automated Linking to NCSS Block Diagrams read more [Read more...]

I have a paper which I wrote some years ago, which has not been finished, and which should be accompanied by an R package. So far nothing special, but at that time, I was only at the beginning of my affair with R, and so I made several mistakes (OK – ... [Read more...]

A map depicting the spatial distribution of a given soil series can be very useful when working on a new soil survey, updating an old one, or searching for specific soil characteristics. We have recently added a soil series query facility to SoilWeb, w... [Read more...]

After working more seriously with simulations I noticed some updates were necessary to my previous setup. Most notably are the following three: It is very handy to explicitly call the different scenarios instead of using nested loops Storing intermediate results in single files obliviates the need to rerun an almost ... [Read more...]

A colleague showed me results of his study project with beeswarm plots made by GraphPad. I was wondering if it could be implemented in R and more specifically with ggplot2. There is a R package allowing to draw such graphs, the beeswarm package (beeswa... [Read more...]

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Wes McKinney is a prominent figure in the scientific Python community, and has made tremendous contributions to several core statistical computing libraries in that language. This month, Wes will be speaking specifically about two packages he has crea... [Read more...]

There are many datasets available online for free for research use. Some of them are listed below. - The R Datasets Package: There are around 90 datasets available in the package. Most of them are small and easy to feed … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Lloyd's is the world's leading specialist insurance market, and is often the first to insure new, unusual or complex risks. So it's no surprise that Lloyd's is one of the many companies that use R and its advanced capabilities for data analysis to help manage its insurance risks. At the ... [Read more...]

Prompted by a rush of visitors from Andrew Gelman's blog, I went back and updated the details of my post from 2009 on reading data from Google Spreadsheets into R. Since then, Google had switched to using a secure (https) connection for Google Docs, which required some tweaks to the code. ... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data. The Financial Times says it's time to "Fire your Adviser" because correlations among US stocks ar... [Read more...]

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Matthias Klose, the tireless force behind the Debian / Ubuntu gcc, python, and what have you packages, sent me a minimal patch to let littler build when the ld linker uses the --as-needed option (as Ubuntu builds now do): all it took was a little reor... [Read more...]