April 2012

Working with Globcolour data

April 2, 2012 | Marc in the box

The Globcolour project (http://www.globcolour.info/) provides relatively easy access to ocean color remote sensing data. Data is provided at http://hermes.acri.fr/and the following parameters are available:· Chlorophyll-a (CHL1 and CHL2)· Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 412, 443, 490, 510, 531, 550-565, 620, 665-670, 681 and 709 nm (Lxxx)· Coloured dissolved and detrital ... [Read more...]

Introduction to ORE Embedded R Script Execution

April 2, 2012 | Sherry Lamonica

This Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) tutorial, on embedded R execution, is the third in a series to help users get started using ORE. See these links for the first tutorial on the transparency layer and second tutorial on the statistics engine. Oracle R Enterprise is a component in the Oracle ...
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Add a frame to a map

April 2, 2012 | Marc in the box

Here is a function that adds a frame of alternating colors to a map (un-projected). One defines the extension of each bar (in degrees) and an optional width of the bars (in inches). It uses the "joinPolys" function of the package to trim the bars near the map corners where ... [Read more...]

3-D graphing with Google

April 2, 2012 | David Smith

You probably already knew that you can draw mathematical equations in Google by typing the equation into the search box. For example, here's the Standard Normal density function: I can't find a way to embed the graph directly, but if you click on it you'll find it's interactive: you can ... [Read more...]

Playing with fire (or water)

April 2, 2012 | arthur charpentier

A few days ago, http://www.futilitycloset.com/ published a short post based on the fourth problem of the 1987 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (from on a problem from the 6th All Soviet Union Mathematical Competition in Voronezh, 1966). The problem i... [Read more...]

Linking apples liking to analytical data

April 2, 2012 | Wingfeet

This post describes the last puzzle piece of the model. The link of instrumental to sensory data. Together with the previous pieces this leads to a model starting from physico-chemical measurements, to sensory data, to consumers' perception and finally...
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Replacing market indices

April 2, 2012 | Pat

If equity markets suddenly sprang into existence now, would we create market indices? I’m doubtful. Why an index? The Dow Jones Industrial Average was born in 1896.  This was when computers were humans with adding machines (but they did do parallel processing).  At that point boiling “the market” down to ... [Read more...]

Sunday evening, stupid games…

April 1, 2012 | arthur charpentier

This evening, while I was about to wash the dishes, I heard my elders starting a game (call them Him and Her) Him: "I have picked - in my head - a number, lower than 50. Try to guess..." Her: "No way, too difficult..." Him: "You can try five differ... [Read more...]

Missing Data Club

April 1, 2012 | Capehart

Welcome to Missing Data Club. There are only three rules. Rule #1 is: There is no missing data. Rule #2 is: THERE IS NO MISSING DATA! Rule #3: If you’ve never built a model using missing data – you must do it... [Read more...]

A better way of saving and loading objects in R

April 1, 2012 | ucfagls

Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) this week mentioned on Twitter his preference for saveRDS() over the more familiar save(). Being a new function to me, I thought I’d take a look… save() and load() will be familiar to many R users. They … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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