Of the nearly infinite ways of using crossfilter and dc.js in finance, the 2 that immediately came to my mind are signal analysis in system building and money manager analysis in due diligence.  My first very basic experiment explores a commonly k... [Read more...]

So in the last post I showed how to run the Bayesian counterpart of Pearson’s correlation test by estimating the parameters of a bivariate normal distribution. A problem with assuming normality is that the normal distribution isn’t robust against outliers. Let’s see what happens if we take ... [Read more...]

In this post, I calculate the highest value you should bid on each player in an auction draft—what I refer to as the "bid up to" value.  In a previous post, I showed how to determine the best starting lineup to draft using an optimizer tool.  The "bid up ... [Read more...]

A while ago, there was a question on Stackoverflow, Is there an equivalent R function to Stata ‘order’ command?. There isn’t really, and for the most part, you don’t really need one, but I decided that, for fun, I would write one anyway. Instead of operating directly on ... [Read more...]

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Multicore (parallel) processing in R from Wallace Campbell on Vimeo. If you're not programming in parallel, you're only using a fraction of your computer's power! I demonstrate how to run "for" loops in parallel using the mclapply function from the multicore library. The code can be scaled to any number ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics has teamed up with Cloudera to bring the scalable data manipulation and statistical modeling algorithms of Revolution R Enteprise to the massively-parallel computing environments of CDH3 and CDH4 Hadoop clusters. As ZDNet reports: Specifically, the upcoming version 7.0 of the Revolution R Enterpise distribution and its ScaleR algorithms will ... [Read more...]

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A client came to me with some conformance data. She was having a hard time making sense of it in a spreadsheet. I had a look at a couple of ways of presenting it that would bring out the important points. The Data The data came as a spreadsheet with ... [Read more...]

Dr. Ramnath Vaidyanathan of McGill University gave an excellent presentation at a joint Data Visualization DC/Statistical Programming DC event on Monday, August 19 at nclud, on two R projects he leads — slidify and rCharts. After the evening, all I can say … Continue reading → The post Fantastic presentations from R using ... [Read more...]

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Over the weekend googleVis 0.4.4 found its way to CRAN. The function gvisTable gained a new argument formats that allow users to define the formats numbers displayed in tables. Thanks to J. Buros, who contributed the code.ExampleLoadingSession InfoR ve... [Read more...]

I was working on an issue (enhancement) today in my groan R-package today that required adding additional plotting elements via lines() and points() to a device that had already been partitioned by layout(). The code I wanted to use was essentially: #... [Read more...]

Yesterday evening, I wanted to play with Twitter, and see which websites I was using as references in my tweets, to get a Top 4 list. The first problem I got was because installing twitteR on Ubuntu is not that simple ! You have to install properly RCurl… But you before install ... [Read more...]

We're proud that Revolution R Enterprise recently received the award for Top Innovator for Data Visualization from DataWeek. The R language has long been at the forefront of data visualization, and is the graphical engine behind many of the unique data visualizations you often see on the web and in ... [Read more...]

More exciting (and important!) news about MCMSki IV: First, some if not all of the 9 invited and the 16 contributed sessions are about now documented by abstracts. The program is completely set! If you plan to present a poster, remember to send me by email (a) surname, name (institution): title as ... [Read more...]

The Karpov vs. Kasparov rivalry holds a special place in the chess world.The idea behind this analysis is simple. If we take their lifetime games, plot the wins, what would it look like? We introduce one twist -- we'll be plotting the "winner-take-all"... [Read more...]

Dichotomies come easily to us, especially when they are caricatures as shown in this cartoon.  These personality types do seem real, and without much difficulty, we can anticipate how they might react in different situations.  For example, if... [Read more...]

I describe how to estimate the Weibull accelerated failure time model and the Cox proportional hazards model, test the assumptions, make predictions, and plot survival functions using each model. Survival analysis in R: Weibull and Cox proportional haz... [Read more...]

There are different types of data on R. I use type here as a technical term, rather than merely a synonym of “variety”.  There are three main types of data: Numeric: ordinary numbers Character: not treated as a number, but as a word. You cannot add two characters, even if ... [Read more...]