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Last week, I came across two interesting posts by Romain François and Petr Simecek: Crawling Facebook with R, in which Romain explains how to connect to the Facebook Graph API Mining Facebook Data: Most “Liked” Status and Friendship Network, in which Petr use Romain’s function to visualize your ... [Read more...]

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Ten reasons to love the cloud: The names on Heroku. empty-moon-9726. Suddenly the cloud seems prosaic when you can have the moon. Being reunited with putty. It’s like catching up with an old friend. At first the conversation is a little stilted, but then you soon remember just how ... [Read more...]

Starting this blog with initial thanks to Josh Suereth from whom I cloned the template of this blog, Tom Preston-Werner who made Jekyll (a static site generator for this blog), Scott Chamberlain who made me aware of it. [Read more...]

Following on from A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi, here’s a quick view summary view over #UKGC12 tweets saved in Google Spreadsheet archive as developed by Martin Hawksey, generated from an R script (R code available here; #ukgc12 tweet archive here)… (I did ... [Read more...]

Scientific American has a short article on trends in undergraduate degrees over the past 20 years, illustrated with a great infographic by Nathan Yau. As a big fan of STEM (science, tech, engineering and math) education, I was pleased to … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Linear regression can be a fast and powerful tool to model complex phenomena. However, it makes several assumptions about your data, and quickly breaks down when these assumptions, such as the assumption that a linear relationship exists between the predictors and the dependent variable, break down. In this post, I ... [Read more...]

THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. The information is provided for informational purposes only. In the Time Series Matching post, I used one to one mapping to the compute distance between the query(current pattern) and reference(historical time series). Following chart visualizes this concept. The distance is the sum of ... [Read more...]

Yesterday, we have discussed briefly sums and maximas of i.i.d. random variables using the concept of subexponential distributions. Today, we will introduce the concept of regular variation: a positive function is said to be regularly varying (at i... [Read more...]

As someone who was a Java programmer for many years learning R’s object oriented programming framework has been frustrating to say the least. I like the simplicity of S3 but find it limiting when you wish to write methods that change the underlying data elements. That is, printing, summarizing, ... [Read more...]

Hadley Wickham, creator of the ggplot2 packages for R (as well as several others) will present a webinar on February 8 going behind the scenes of the popular graphics package. If you've never used ggplot2 before, this will be a great way to learn about the kinds of charts you can ... [Read more...]

Background One of my colleagues is an academic physical therapist (PT), and he's working on a paper to his colleagues related to power, sample size, and navigating the thicket of trouble that surrounds those two things. We recently got together to walk through some of the issues, and I thought ... [Read more...]

I had previously posted solutions in R to Project Euler problem 23 and problem 22.  This is the next problem from Project Euler. The statement of problem 24 is as follows.A permutation is an ordered arrangement of objects.... [Read more...]

Recently there have been some great posts that highlight how easy it is to hook into the Facebook Graph API using R. Crawling Facebook with R started the discussion and Apply R highlighted how easy it was to plot our network. In order to replicate the examples on Windows, most ... [Read more...]

I love TikZ in LaTeX and I use it exclusively when writing figures for my papers. I also use the tikzDevice package to convert all figures I create in R to TikZ code, so the font used in the text and figures is the same (and having your R figures ... [Read more...]

I want to test embedding source code in the blog by using the handy Gist tool provided by GitHub. These two R functions are a good opportunity to test out embedding a Gist on the website. These functions allow for threshold testing within a vector in R... [Read more...]

Yesterday my paper   appeared in early view in Evolution (author’s preprint),1 so I’d like to take this chance to share the back-story and highlight my own view on some of our findings, and the associated package on CRAN.2 I didn’t set out to write this paper.  I ... [Read more...]

By following twitter’s #rstats hashtag (rss feed), I recently came across a very interesting R-related blog: datanalytics.com. The first post I read from it was about setting up an on-line reading group to go through the excellent “The Elements of … Continue reading → [Read more...]