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This is something I’ve been meaning to write for ages. My formal training for most things is limited. Like a lot of folks, I’m an autodidact. This is good in that I’m always learning and always studying those things that I enjoy. At the same time, it ... [Read more...]

This script was almost written on parallel to the sjPlotCorr script because it uses a very similar ggplot-base. However, there’s also a very nice posting over at Martin’s Bio Blog which show alternative approaches on plotting PCAs. Anyway, if you … Weiterlesen → [Read more...]

the american time use survey collects information about how we spend our time.  it's a pretty simple setup: sampled individuals write down everything they do for a single twenty-four hour period, in ten minute intervals.  those diaries are a... [Read more...]

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Based on last week's faster algorithm I wanted to finish with car weights. Unfortunately a fail again. By now it is a fail of myself, it needs a bit more dedication and grunt than I am willing and able to give for this blog. This week I added... [Read more...]

Heatmaps are a great way to visualize data matrices. Heatmap color and organization can be used to  encode information about the data and metadata to help learn about the data at hand. An example of this could be looking at the raw data  or hierarchically clustering samples and variables based ... [Read more...]

I have been having some issues generating spatial unions and intersections using the rgeos package. The package is extremely powerful, as it serves as an R interface to the powerful GEOS engine. However, when working with shapefiles or polygons, quite often you will come across a whole range of errors, ... [Read more...]

ggmap is a new tool which enables such visualization by combining the spatial information of static maps from Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Stamen Maps or CloudMade Maps with the layered grammar of graphics implementation of ggplot2The library is developped by David Kahle and Hadley Wickham and in the latest R/... [Read more...]

For database marketing or direct marketing people, they are always concerned about two questions before they send out mails or make calls to their customers:- How can they segment the customers in the database to find out who are more likely to response to their mails or buy their ... [Read more...]

As I was studying volatility derivatives I made some charts that represent some key features of replication. Say variance swap has a payoff function \(f=(\sigma - K_{VOL}) \), which means that \(K_{VOL}\) will most likely be the forward volatility clos... [Read more...]

As I was studying volatility derivatives I made some charts that represent some key features of replication. Say variance swap has a payoff function \(f=(\sigma^2 - K_{VOL}) \), which means that \(K_{VOL}\) will most likely be the forward volatility cl... [Read more...]

The issue with the broken histogram creation tool in QGIS annoyed me far too long. Sometimes you just need a quick glance on the histogram of a raster just to make a decision on how to process it or just to assess distribution of classes. But as you kn... [Read more...]

I frequently use lattice and ggplot2 to create trellis/faceted graphics. But, I gave up using these packages in a recent application, where I had initially constructed a complex graphic using the base R plotting functions. When I later decided that I wanted a faceted version, there was a dilema: ... [Read more...]

Last post on modelling survival data from Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: parametric analyses. The Cox proportional hazards model described in the last post make no assumption about the shape of the baseline hazard, which is an advantage if you have no idea about what that shape might be. With a parametric ... [Read more...]

# A single price monopolist is a monopolist because it is the only supplier of a particular product. The monopolist therefore has the power to choose a price to sell the product at. # Those who have a willingness to pay which is greater than the ... [Read more...]

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Revolution Analytics has a new office in London to serve our customers in Europe. This press release introduces the team members who are based there: Neil Miller, Managing Director, International: Neil Miller is responsible for Revolution Analytics' business and growth outside the Americas and is based in the U.K. ... [Read more...]

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Credit scoring is the practice of analysing a persons background and credit application in order to assess the creditworthiness of the person. One can take numerous approaches on analysing this creditworthiness. In the end it basically comes down to first selecting the correct independent variables (e.g. income, age, gender) ... [Read more...]