In case you missed them, here are some articles from August of particular interest to R users: A tutorial on parallel programming with the foreach, doMC and doSNOW packages. Joe Rickert reviews R's capabilities for linear algebra, sparse matrices and big matrices. How R is disrupting the insurance industry with ... [Read more...]

Statistics.com, a provider of online education in statistics and analytics, announces a partnership with CrowdANALYTIX, a predictive modeling “managed [Read more...]

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If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in October. If you already know another analytics package, the workshop, Intro to R for SAS, SPSS … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Welcome to my new website/blog. I am aiming to highlight some of the R packages that I have created. You can see a list of all the R packages I have in development and also see the source code on github here: R packages. In addition, I'll likely talk ... [Read more...]

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Clearly, a :) is happier than a :( but what about a :-* and a :-D ? Or a :-| and a :-o ? In this post I attempt to rank emoticons in order of how happy someone has to be to use each one. (And punctuate horribly to avoid mixing punctuation with the ... [Read more...]

I am teaming up with Revolution Analytics to teach an online course on forecasting with R. Topics to be covered include seasonality and trends, exponential smoothing, ARIMA modelling, dynamic regression and state space models, as well as forecast accuracy methods and forecast evaluation techniques such as cross-validation. I will talk ... [Read more...]

The massively-online open course (MOOC) platform Coursera has already delivered two essential free courses for anyone who wants to learn the R language. Computing for Data Analysis, presented by Roger Peng, covers the basics of R programming. The follow-up course Data Analysis, presented by Jeff Leek, covers statistical modeling and ... [Read more...]

Model deployment used to be a big task. Predictive models, once built, needed to be re-coded into production to be able to score new data. This process was prone to errors and could easily take up to six months. Re-coding of predictive models has no pl... [Read more...]

A quick update on the last blog post...Mr Hadley Wickham has made the authentication for this much easier...Then you can use the curl script like in my last blog post. [Read more...]

A quick tip on how to load multiple shapefiles (point shapefiles, i.e.) to the R console in one go:library(sp)# get all files with the .shp extension from working directory setwd("D:/GIS_DataBase/GIS_Tirol/Tirol_Verbreitungskarten/Verbreitungs_Daten")shps # the assign function will take the string ... [Read more...]

In my previous post I used the tm package to do some simple text mining on the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Today I am taking some of those results and using them to generate word clusters. Preparing the Data I will start with the Term Document Matrix (TDM) consisting ... [Read more...]

I was listening to Science Friday from Sep 6th. and one of the discussions by Ira Flatow was on the well known Monty Hall Problem.  This problem has been hashed out many times and in fact I was first introduced to the probability aspects of the problem while taking my ... [Read more...]

The ave function in R is one of those little helper function I feel I should be using more. Investigating its source code showed me another twist about R and the "[" function. But first let's look at ave.The top of ave's help page reads:Group Averages Over Level Combinations ... [Read more...]

One of the practical challenges of Bayesian statistics is being able to deal with all of the complex probability distributions involved. You begin with the likelihood function of interest, but once you combine it with the prior distributions of all the parameters, you end up with a complex posterior distribution ... [Read more...]

I have posted before about the brilliant R/finance work being done at Systematic Investor.  I just had to see what his cluster work would look like with d3 interactivity.  Click on the screenshot below or here to see an interactive recreation... [Read more...]

I caught a pretty amazing episode of Horizon (the BBC’s in depth science program in the UK) a while back called “The future of medicine is apps“. The programme explored the health benefits of giving people data about their body, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Ce que je sais sur les séries temporelles (1/5) En lisant la préface de Flore Vasseur à l'essai “le monde en 2030 vu par la CIA”, j'ai été très frappé par mon manque de culture macroéconomique. En effet, un essaiqui parle de 2030, regorge presqu'essentiellement de prévisions macroéconomiques ... [Read more...]

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