This post presents a tiny slice of a complex and diverse India using charts. (Data retrieval from Wikipedia on 9 July, 2013 and the analysis were performed using R; charts were generated using ggplot2, googleVis and wordcloud. More information can be f... [Read more...]

I love horizon plots.  My love shows up throughout my blog, and I have plotted horizon charts in base graphics, xtsExtra, lattice, and ggplot2.  Now with rCharts, we can implement Jason Davies d3.js horizon chart plugin to plot R data in... [Read more...]

To my surprise and disappointment, popular scientific libraries like Boost or GSL provide no native support for parallel random number generation. Recently I came across TRNG, an excellent random number generation library for C++ built specifically with parallel architectures in mind. Over the last few days I’ve been trawling ... [Read more...]

Trey Causey asks, Has R-help gotten meaner over time?: I began by using Scrapy to download all the e-mails sent to R-help between April 1997 (the earliest available archive) and December 2012. . . . We each read 500 messages and coded them in the following categories: -2 Negative and unhelpful -1 Negative but helpful [...] The ... [Read more...]

Here’s a quick example of the power of lambda.r and how it simplifies the programming model. On the r-devel mailing …Continue reading » [Read more...]

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Man flu kept me at home today, so I decided to do something ‘useful’ and go for a linkathon: Ed Yong discusses the effect of subject expectations in psychology experiments Nice Results, But What Did You Expect? At the beginning there was another article on The placebo phenomenon, and another ... [Read more...]

The gridSVG package has recently provided an interface for some more advanced SVG graphics features: gradient fills and pattern fills, clipping paths, masks, and filters. This report describes a simple test case for some of these advanced graphics features and … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I have programmed up a R based Sudoku problem solver for Sudoku puzzles of that only require simple inference.  In these puzzles a solution can be found using only first order inference.  This solver can be found at the end of the code locate... [Read more...]

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I just stumbled across a really useful infix function in R: %in%. It compares two vectors and returs a logical vector if there is a match or not for its left operand. Let us look at some examples: __ 1:10 %in% c(1,3,5,9) [1] TRUE FALSE TRUE... [Read more...]

This afternoon I went to Max Kuhn’s tutorial on his caret package. caret stands for classification and regression (something beginning with e) trees. It provides a consistent interface to nearly 150 different models in R, in much the same way as the plyr package provides a consistent interface to the ... [Read more...]

I’m at user 2013, and this morning I attended Hadley Wickham and Romain Francois’s tutorial on the Rcpp package for calling C++ code from R. I’ve spent the last eight years avoiding C++ afer having nightmares about obscure pointer bugs, so I went into the room slightly skeptical ... [Read more...]

In a recent article at Statistics View, Lillian Pierson describes how the X+1 Origin Digital Marketing Hub helps companies like JP Morgan Chase and Verizon optimize their marketing efforts. Back in 2011, X+1 saw the need to update their analytics platform to deal with increasing data sizes and to serve the ... [Read more...]

If Big Data was last year's buzzword, Data Science may reach the same level of hype this year. There's no shortage of discussion about the high demand for data scientists, the term's usefulness as a designation, and even declarations of its "sexiness" as a career. And as with many terms ... [Read more...]

R speeds up when the Basic Linear Algebra System (BLAS) it uses is well tuned. The reference BLAS that comes with R and Ubuntu isn’t very fast. On my machine, it takes 9 minutes to run a well known R … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Introduction Continuing my recent series on exploratory data analysis (EDA), today’s post focuses on histograms, which are very useful plots for visualizing the distribution of a data set.  I will discuss how histograms are constructed and use histograms to assess the distribution of the “Ozone” data from the built-in “... [Read more...]

Most of time, I don’t need to deal with different encodings at all. When possible, I use ASCII characters. And when there is a little processing in Chinese characters or other Unicode characters, I use .Net languages or JVM languages, in which every string is Unicode and of course ... [Read more...]

Today Diego and I will give our googleVis tutorial at useR!2013 in Albacete, Spain.googleVis Tutorial at useR! 2013We will cover:Introduction and motivationGoogle Chart ToolsR package googleVisConcepts of googleVisCase studiesgoogleVis on shiny [Read more...]

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