July 2012

RcppCNPy 0.2.0

July 31, 2012 | Thinking inside the box

Version 0.2.0 of the recently introduced RcppCNPy package for reading/writing NumPy data in R arrived on CRAN earlier today. The main change are the added ability to also write gzip-ed npy files, to suppress an automatic transposition as well as th... [Read more...]

The Environmental Performance Index, visualized with R

July 31, 2012 | David Smith

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts the EPI website, which was used to present the 2012 EPI Rankings to world leaders at the 2012 World Economic Forum at Davos. The Country Profiles section of the website allowed members ... [Read more...]

Twitter analysis of air pollution in Beijing

July 31, 2012 | David Ruau

One of the air pollution detection machine in Beijing (at the American Embassy) is connected to Twitter and tweet about the air quality in real time. By default the machine in Beijing output the 24hr summary PM2.5 air pollution information. What is PM2.5 is define here Next will be to ... [Read more...]

Fun with geocoding and mapping in JGR

July 31, 2012 | stathack

For a recent project I had to do some mapping of addresses, but I didn’t have there lat/lons do use the Deducer and DeducerSpatial packages in R JGR.  After frustrating myself trying to adapt this code from stackoverflow.com, I found a much easier way of geocoding using ... [Read more...]

Application of Horizon Plots

July 31, 2012 | klr

for background please see prior posts Horizon Plot Already Available and Cubism Horizon Charts in R Good visualization simplifies, and stories are better told with effective and pretty visualizations. Although horizon plots are not immediately intuitiv...
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Multidimensional Scaling and Company Similarity

July 30, 2012 | Pete

Background and ideaOften we are looking at a particular sector, and want to get a quick overview of a group of companies relative to one another. I thought I might apply Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) to various financial ratios and see if it... [Read more...]

Yet Another Forecast Dashboard

July 30, 2012 | systematicinvestor

Recently, I came across quite a few examples of time series forecasting using R. Here are some examples: Time series cross-validation 4: forecasting the S&P 500 Holt-Winters forecast using ggplot2 Autoplot: Graphical Methods with ggplot2 Large-Scale Parallel Statistical Forecasting Computations in R (2011) by M. Stokely, F. Rohani, E. Tassone Forecasting time ... [Read more...]

Split-plot 2: let’s throw in some spatial effects

July 30, 2012 | Luis

Disappeared for a while collecting frequent flyer points. In the process I ‘discovered’ that I live in the middle of nowhere, as it took me 36 hours to reach my conference destination (Estoril, Portugal) through Christchurch, Sydney, Bangkok, Dubai, Madrid … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Big data, big analytics, big opportunity

July 30, 2012 | Murtaza Haider

Data, data, every where Nor any byte to think The world today is awash with data. Corporations, governments, and individuals are busy generating petabytes of data on culture, economy, environment, religion, and society.  While data has become abundant and ubiquitous, data analysts needed to turn raw data into knowledge are ... [Read more...]

Forecasting the Olympics

July 30, 2012 | Rob J Hyndman

Forecasting sporting events is a growing research area. The International Journal of Forecasting even had a special issue on sports forecasting a couple of years ago. The London 2012 Olympics has attracted a few forecasters trying to predict medal counts, world records, etc. Here are some of the articles I’ve ... [Read more...]

A prediction for the Olympic men’s 100m sprint

July 30, 2012 | David Smith

R user Markus Gesmann used the gold-winning times from the Olympic Men's 100m sprint since 1990 as the basis of the following prediction for the London Games: My simple log-linear model forecasts a winning time of 9.68 seconds, which is 1/100 of a second faster than Usain Bolt's winning time in Beijing in 2008, ... [Read more...]

Archetypal Analysis

July 30, 2012 | Joel Cadwell

Thinking Strategically about Customer HeterogeneityIronically, market segmentation, whose motto is "one size does not fit all," seems to rely almost exclusively on one definition of what constitutes a segment.  Borrowing its definition f... [Read more...]

Returns with negative net asset values

July 30, 2012 | Pat

How are returns calculated when net asset value goes negative? Previously In “A tale of two returns” we highlighted the similarities and differences of log returns versus simple returns. Positive valuation We create — in R — an example of net asset value at four times: __ nav1 nav1 … Continue reading →
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