Here’s a new animated graph, again made using only stats software – R this time – to recreate Hans Rosling’s famous 200 Countries animation. Have you ever noticed how Prof Rosling had a team of graphics people beavering away in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The rainfall received by Quezon City, Philippines was almost double of what the city normally receive for the entire month of August, causing flooding and land slide to various villages in the area. [Read more...]

By Josh MillsIntroductionFor those who are learning R and who may be well-versed in SQL, the sqldf package provides a mechanism to manipulate R data frames using SQL. Even for experienced R programmers, sqldf can be a useful tool for data manipulation. This site provides a useful introduction to SQL. [... [Read more...]

It has been two weeks since my last post on the 16th Euler problem. Now, since I just need a break after supper, I’m coming the 17th problem. If the numbers 1 to 5 are written out in words: one, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In London Olympics 2012 Medal Tables At A Glance? I posted some treemap visualisations of the Olympics medal tables generated using a Google Visualisation Chart treemap component. I thought it might be worth posting a quick R generated example too, using the off-the-shelf/straight out of CRAN treemap component. (If you ... [Read more...]

Even though forums and question-and-answer services like StackOverflow are emerging as the place to find crowdsourced technical help when using software like R, the traditional r-help email list is still going strong. UCLA grad student and R user Richard Kwock presented a poster at last month's JSM conference with an ... [Read more...]

In case you tried loading a package that depends on the {rJava} package (by Simon Urbanek), you might came across the following error: Loading required package: rJava library(rJava) Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for ‘rJava’, details: call: fun(libname, pkgname) …Read more » [Read more...]

There are many things I love about the R package ggplot2. For the most part, they fall into two categories:The "grammar of graphics" approach builds a hierarchical relationship between the data and the graphic, which creates a consistent, int... [Read more...]

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Majority of Metro Manila is affected by floods. Looking at the hourly data from PAGASA weather  station located at Bicutan, Taguig, the graph below will gave the viewers of this blog on the rainfall situation in Manila from August 6 (12:00am)-7(11... [Read more...]

This post is about basic model simulation so we can get a feel for how curves are supposed to look given certain processes assumed by the model. One of the most prevalent patterns in ecology is the species-area (SAR) curve, which … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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The Fall semester is coming, which means it is time to log into several stupid systems to be prepared for the new semester. Time and time again I'm annoyed by the bullshit password rules at Iowa State University. I wrote to the IT staff once but no one... [Read more...]

I want to share a brilliant idea and a great example from the You’re Looking at the Wrong Number post at the GestaltU blog. Today, I will focus on the section of this post that outlines simple steps to improve a typical 60/40 stock/bond portfolio by using risk allocation ... [Read more...]

When running stats labs I like to allocate a slightly different subset of data to each student, which acts as an incentive for people to do their own work (rather than copying the same results from a fellow student). We … Continue reading → [Read more...]

On Ubuntu 12.04, I took to the following steps to install Vim-R-plugin: First I had to install timux: sudo apt-get installl tmux Having already installed vim-pathogen, I used git to clone to install vim-r-plugin and vim-screen plugin, which is also … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I finally (nearly) got around to prepare the R code to replicate the examples in the book. I divided the examples by chapter and then linked to the R scripts and, for those involving Bayesian analysis, the associated JAGS models.At the moment, the scri... [Read more...]

Last week, Markus Gesmann used a log-linear model in R to predict the Olympic gold-medal winning 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds. The actual time was 9.63 seconds. Not bad! Meanwhile, the New York Times put Usuain Bolt's olympic record in context, comparing him in a virtual race with other gold ... [Read more...]

The majority of the world’s problem deal with directly or indirectly some kind of optimisation. Instance of optimisation of resources or utility function can be seen our daily life. Here I am talking about standard optimisation problem in statistics, maximum … Continue reading →The post A heuristic enhancement of optimisation ... [Read more...]

Preparing for a future conference on climate change, I downloaded and extracted average monthly rainfall in the Philippines from worldclim.org. Using maptools, raster, and animation package in R, I produced an animation of average monthly rainfall of t... [Read more...]