I wrote a quick (and very dirty) R script for creating a comparison cloud and a commonality cloud for President Obama’s 2011 and 2012 State of the Union speeches*. The cloud on the left shows words that have different frequencies between the two spe... [Read more...]

Solutions in R to Project Euler problems are generally hard to find, so I've recently started posting R solutions on this site.  Here are the previous problems: problem 22, problem 23 and problem 24Now let's... [Read more...]

Speaking of R… On the 16th, TIOBE Software released the Tiobe Index of the most popular programming languages. For the first time ever, R is in the Top 20. The top spots are, no surprise, occupied by Java and C respectively. More after the jump. The way this index is assembled ... [Read more...]

Over the last year and half, I have faced numerous challenges with geocoding the data that I have used to showcase my passion for location analytics.  In 2012, I decided to take thing in my control and turned to R.  Here, I am sharing a simpl... [Read more...]

Last Friday I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Boulder, CO and present R and Revolution Analytics to about 20 analysts as part of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT). It was a great pleasure to describe the vision for Revolution R Enterprise and got some great ... [Read more...]

for some obscure reasons, simple things are usually supposed to be simple. Recently, on the internet, I saw a lot of posts on the "average time in which you hold a stock", and two rather different values are mentioned "Take any stock in the United ... [Read more...]

Update!: The latest version of Revolution R, which added support for RHEL 6, appears to work (it appears to at least install, run, and perform basic tasks). See this post for more details. I’ve come to enjoy using R. I had dabbled with it in the past, but found it ... [Read more...]

After entirely too long, I am happy to announce the beta release of boolean3, an R package for modeling causal complexity. The package can be downloaded at the following links: Unix/Linux: boolean3_3.0.20.tar.gz Windows: boolean3_3.0.20.zip (Please let me know if you have any … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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As I was exploring open data sources, I came across USA spending. This site contains information on US government contract awards and other disbursements, such as grants and loans. In this post, we will look at data on contracts awarded in the state of Maryland in the fiscal year 2011, which ... [Read more...]

For those of who work in Enrollment Management and routinely analyze higher ed data, I wanted to share an easy way to convert ACT to equivalent SAT M+V scores in R. I am dynamically building a dataset that uses the concordance chart located here. Simply, use this data frame ... [Read more...]

RBelgium is the latest local R user group to join the R community. Led by R user Jean-Baptiste Poullet, the group will host meetings on the first Friday of each month at the Alfot Hotel in Brussels, as well as weekly coffee get-togethers. The group also provides an on-line discussion ... [Read more...]

This map has been produced before (and much better) by others but who cares. This effort was achieved purely via the standard R plot function*. I believe the only departure from predecessor maps has been to order the list by … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Following on from the previous post here is an R function for visualising correlations between the explanatory variables in your data set. An interesting example is the North Carolina Crime data set that comes with the plm package. This has the following continuous variables: crmrte crimes committed per person prbarr ... [Read more...]

Why returns have a stable distribution As “A tale of two returns” points out, the log return of a long period of time is the sum of the log returns of the shorter periods within the long period. The log return over a year is the sum of the daily ... [Read more...]

Described in a new Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper here, a new R package RNetLogo allows you to use NetLogo from R. NetLogo is software is a "multi-agent programmable modeling environment". NetLogo can be used in individual- and agent-based mod... [Read more...]

__ starburst('Matrices!') M M M a a a t t t rrr Matrices! ccc e e e s s s ! ! ! wrathematic led me FibBuzz, which led me to Starburst. Now that it’s over, you can see my solution, which uses R matrices. v=strsplit(readLines('stdin'),'')[[1]] d=... [Read more...]

This evening, I found a nice probabilistic puzzle on http://www.futilitycloset.com/ "A bag contains 16 billiard balls, some white and some black. You draw two balls at the same time. It is equally likely that the two will be the same color as diff... [Read more...]

I ran the Fibonacci number example from the Rcpp package on a number of computers and operating systems. Here are the results:A. On my main computer (Core 2 Extreme 3.06GHz, 8 GB memory) running Ubuntu 10.04 (g++ 4.4.3):        test... [Read more...]