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Linear regression is one of the key concepts in statistics [wikipedia1, wikipedia2]. However, people are often confuse the meaning of parameters of linear regression - the intercept tells us the average value of y at x=0, while the slope tells us how m... [Read more...]

Wondering about the question I posted on Friday (on StackExchange, no satisfactory answer so far!), I looked further at the special case of the gamma distribution I suggested at the end. Starting from the moment conditions, and the solution is (hopefully) given by the system The resolution of this system ... [Read more...]

I am quite interested in both Wars with sabres and Sabremetric WARs but the War I am most involved in is the card game. Unfortunately, it is one my six year old favourites and he is quite happy to while away the hours (literally) playing it with anyone pressganged into ... [Read more...]

on the Spatial analysis blog a nice visualisation of the major shipping route of the British, Dutch and Spanish fleet in 1750-1850 was presented recently. based on the Climatological Databases for the World's Oceans (CLIWOC). another even nicer visuali... [Read more...]

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Marketing is one of the pioneering domains when it comes to applications of predictive analytics to Big Data. (For example, how Target used statistical modeling to predict demographic attribues of customers, like pregnancy, to target coupons.) To get such powerful insights into the hands of marketers, DC-area company LityxIQ provides ... [Read more...]

I want to introduce the Transaction Cost and Execution Price functionality in the Backtesting library in the Systematic Investor Toolbox. The Transaction Cost is implemented by a commission parameter in the bt.run() function. You may specify the commissions in $ per share for “share” type backtest and as a percentage ... [Read more...]

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“My job is to teach you how to think.” –Hugh Young A few days ago John Naughton published an article summarizing his manifesto on how to reform computer science education. I agree computer science education is in need of drastic... [Read more...]

I wrote a few functions to grab data and from the Global Pollen Database:

<span>source</span>(<span>"~/code/_Pollen/pollendatafuntions.R"</span>)
## Loading required package: stratigraph
## Loading required package: grid
## Loading required package: graphics
## Loading required package: stats
billys <- <span>getpctAP</span>(<span>"billys"</span>, <span>plot =</span> <span>TRUE</span>)
## Number of taxa:  105 
## Number of levels:  77

Arboreal Pollen over time at Billy’s Lake Clearly, there’s are trends at different time scales. The trouble with using S-Maps on this is that there are uneven sampling intervals. One option is to ... [Read more...]

Web-scraping, or web-crawling, sounds like a seedy activity worthy of an Interpol investigative department. The reality, however, is far less nefarious. Web-scraping is any procedure by which someone extracts data from the internet. Given that it’s possible to get the internet on computers these days; web-scrapping opens an array ... [Read more...]

pie( table( whence.i.tweet )) qplot( whence ) + coord_polar() pie( log( table( whence )))+RColorBrewer ggplot (see below) plot( density( tweets.len )) qplot(... stat="density") + geom_density qplot(...stat="bin") + geom_text(...) tweeple tweep... [Read more...]