May 2012

R Tops Data Mining Software Poll

May 31, 2012 | David Smith

For the past 12 years, KDNuggets has conducted an annual poll asking "What analytics/data mining software you used in the past 12 months for a real project (not just evaluation)". In this year's poll, R was the top-ranked data mining solution, selected by 30.7% of poll respondents. Microsoft Excel was second, at 29.8%. ... [Read more...]

Conditional Drawdown Exploration

May 31, 2012 | klr

After reading Strub, Issam S., Trade Sizing Techniques for Drawdown and Tail Risk Control (May 21, 2012), I thought I should try to tie this with 2 other good R pieces on Conditional Drawdown: http://systematicinvestor.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/minimiz...
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Using R.Net in an Excel Add in

May 31, 2012 | George

I thought I’d try out R.net and in doing so I have put together a very simple Excel 2007 add in that connects Excel to R. I’m using .Net 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 pro with the latest commit of R.Net, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Inferno-ish R

May 31, 2012 | Pat

CambR was nice enough to invite Markus Gesmann and me to speak at their event on Tuesday. My talk was Inferno-ish R. See also The R Inferno. Epilogue Subscribe to the Portfolio Probe blog by Email
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The Facebook Doomsday Watch

May 31, 2012 | Intelligent Trading

I've been following the myriad circus of Facebook commentators and bystanders pointing to its horrific failed IPO launch and seemingly inevitable crash to zero. While my focus here isn't really so much on fundamentals or basic TA; I do want to comment ...
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Predicting the NBA Finals with R

May 30, 2012 | Vik Paruchuri

This is the initial post about the algorithm. See updates 1, 2, and 3 for more. The algorithm is currently 4-2 in the playoffs!OverviewI was struck by Martin O'Leary's recent post on predicting the Eurovision finals, which led me to decide that I wou... [Read more...]

Project Euler — problem 5

May 30, 2012 | Tony

I spent around 40 minutes on the last post yesterday, which delayed my bedding time and caused my sleepiness in the morning. So, I’m starting to write earlier tonight. The fifth problem is to calculate the smallest composite for given numbers. 2520 is … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R 2.15.1 scheduled for June 22

May 30, 2012 | David Smith

The next release of open-source R, codenamed "Roasted Marshmallows", is scheduled to be released on June 22, according to this announcement on the r-announce mailing list. Don't expect too many changes in this update: despite the fact that "there have been very few issues with 2.15.0 ... some people may be waiting superstitiously ... [Read more...]

Be assertive!

May 30, 2012 | richierocks

assertive, my new package for writing robust code, is now on CRAN. It consists of lots of is functions for checking variables, and corresponding assert functions that throw an error if the condition doesn’t hold. For example, is_a_number checks that the input is numeric and scalar. In ... [Read more...]

knitcitations

May 30, 2012 | Carl Boettiger

Included file 'themes/noamblog/rsscss.html' not found in _includes directory Markdown is becoming an increasingly popular platform for lightweight and online publishing. While traditional publishing tools like LaTeX and word processors have long had i... [Read more...]

Review: “Forest Analytics with R: an introduction”

May 29, 2012 | Luis

Forestry is the province of variability. From a spatial point of view this variability ranges from within-tree variation (e.g. modeling wood properties) to billions of trees growing in millions of hectares (e.g. forest inventory). From a temporal point of view … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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