A couple of days ago, I was toying with the idea of doing something with SAP Gateway...I thought of using SUP, but as I recently wrote 2 blogs about it, I decided to go back to one of my favorite programming languages...R...So...Gateway can be consumed... [Read more...]

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Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a technique that measures the amount of heat absorbed or emitted by certain materials. It is used in a variety of applications, but in the agricultural world, it is often used to determine the quality and composition of mixed materials such as stock forage. It uses ... [Read more...]

At work I’ve started to work with the biggest data set I’ve ever seen!  First, let me qualify my use of the term “Big Data”.  The number of rows in the resultant data set (after much transformation and manipulation in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Earlier today, Conrad Sanderson released another bug-fix version 3.0.2 for the still fairly recent 3.0.0 version of his excellent Armadillo C++ template library for linear algebra. The new RcppArmadillo release 0.3.0.2 also appeared on CRAN this morn... [Read more...]

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For many of my latest data blogs, I needed historical weather data to perform data mash-ups to pin-point the cause.  For example, for my continued exploration into the airlines/airports historical data using SAP HANA and R, I wanted to find out wh... [Read more...]

By Joseph Rickert Revolution’s resident economist, Saar Golde, is very fond of saying that “90% of what you might from a recommendation engine can be achieved with simple techniques”. To illustrate this point (without doing a lot of work), we downloaded the million row movie dataset from www.grouplens.org ... [Read more...]

Ever wanted to look at PubMed trends and make elegant graphs of them? Here’s an R script that will do it automatically for you. [Read more...]

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Most R functions used in econometrics convert factor variables into a set of dummy/binary variables automatically. This is useful when estimating a linear model, saving the user from the laborious activity of manually including the dummy variables as regressors. However, what if you want to reshape your dataframe so ... [Read more...]

Today I ran into a double question that might be relevant to other R users: Why can’t I assign a dataframe row into a matrix row? And why won’t my function accept this dataframe row as an input argument? A … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The following example shows how to add a transparent image-type layer to a plot. The add.alpha function (below) simply adds transparency to a vector of colors which is then introduced in the "col" argument of an image plot. Read more » [Read more...]

Both R and Python have facilities where the coder can write a script which requests a user to input some information. In Python 2.6, the main function for this task is raw_input (in Python 3.0, it’s input()). In R, there are a series of functions that can be used to ... [Read more...]

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The other day Brett Terpstra posted a gigantic and quite beautifully-executed feature comparison of all of the text editors available for iOS devices. The table is really terrific and also a bit overwhelming, as there's so much data. On the bus home ye... [Read more...]

Smaller countries lead the way. When you think of 'high-tech', which countries come to mind? What is 'High-Tech'? Before continuing, what is meant by the term 'high-tech'? As defined by the World Data Bank, high-technology exports ar... [Read more...]

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