Since Lynas Malaysia Corporation, Australia Rare Earth Refiner Granted Malaysia License, it is always a very hot topic. This can be proven through the daily tweets across recent 7 days. This chart was built by Tweets Keyword Trending Application @... [Read more...]

The ability to handle maps and geospatial images is always a nice trick to have up your sleeve. Almost any sizeable report will contain a map – of a locality, of a country, or of the world. However, very few analysts have the ability to produce these plots for themselves and ... [Read more...]

Introduction R is widely used among scientists and statisticians to perform statistical analysis while Salesforce.com is one of the leading CRM software packages used for Marketing and Salesforce automation. Salesforce.com contains vital information regarding Leads, Customers, Contacts, Opportunities and Cases. Currently this data is mainly used for operational ... [Read more...]

Today, I am going to Rome for a week, teaching my PhD course on ABC I first gave in Paris. The course takes place in La Sapienza Università di Roma, from Monday till Thursday. There will be an R lab in addition to the lectures. (I have no further item ... [Read more...]

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A lot of people consider the static typing found in languages such as C, C++, ML, Java and Scala as needless hairshirtism. They consider the dynamic typing of languages like Lisp, Scheme, Perl, Ruby and Python as a critical advantage (ignoring other features of these languages and other efforts at ... [Read more...]

Spanish R user and solar energy lecturer Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro has written a detailed three-part guide to creating beautiful maps and choropleths (maps color-coded with regional data) using the R language. Motivated by the desire to recreate this graphic from the New York Times, Oscar describes how he creates ... [Read more...]

I direct the Bioinformatics Core at the University of Virginia, and I'm hiring. Visit this link on the UVA Jobs website for more information. Here's the description:The University of Virginia Bioinformatics Core is seeking a full-time position as a bio... [Read more...]

Are you looking for ways how to save real time, high frequency data taken from Interactivebrokers.com API ? I built an example in C++ which saves all incoming data in Mongodb. Check this link if you are interested: https://github.com/kafka399/TwsMongo   [Read more...]

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The R-chart blog explains how to read a weblog file into R, so you can analyze traffic to a website. For example, here's a page request chart created with R: Now, charts like this are stock-in-trade for tools like Google Analytics, but this is still useful if you want to ... [Read more...]

In my prior post, I discussed the origins of the first GSoC project I posted this year. The second GSoC project I’ve proposed is around the writing and code of Attilio Meucci, an adjunct professor at Baruch College – CUNY and an excellent speaker (I saw him at the University ... [Read more...]

Large-scale Inference by Brad Efron is the first IMS Monograph in this new series, coordinated by David Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. Since I read this book immediately after Cox’ and Donnelly’s Principles of Applied Statistics, I was thinking of drawing a parallel between the two books. ... [Read more...]

I have always been provided SAS as part of my job, so I never really realized how much it cost. I’ve bought Stata before, and of course R . I recently found out how much a reasonable bundle of SAS modules along with base SAS costs per year per seat, ... [Read more...]

AWK$ awk 'ORS=NR%3?",":"\n"' student-marksPerl /PHP$result = ($a __ $b) ? $x : $y;In Per6, use double ? and ! instead.$result = ($a __ $b) ?? $x !! $y;Rifelse(a__0,a,0)Ternary operator (if?true:false)bash/linuxternary operator ? : is ju... [Read more...]

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One incredibly popular tool for the analysis of high-dimensional data is the lasso. The lasso is commonly used in cases when you have many more predictors than independent samples (the n « p) problem. It is also often used in the context of predictio... [Read more...]

Visualization is a key to success in regression analysis. This is one of the (many) reasons I am also suspicious when I read an article with a quantitative (econometric) analysis without any graph. Consider for instance the following dataset, obtai... [Read more...]

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You can do anything pretty easily with R, for instance, calculate concentration indexes such as the Gini index or display the Lorenz curve (dedicated to my students). Although I did not explain it during my lectures, calculating a Gini index or displaying the Lorenz curve can be done very easily ... [Read more...]