October 2013

R usage skyrocketing: Rexer poll

October 15, 2013 | David Smith

Rexer Analytics has been conducting regular polls of data miners and analytics professionals on their software choices since 2007, and the results of the 2013 Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey were presented at last month's Predictive Analytics World conference in Boston. Here are some highlights of the responses from the 1,039 non-vendor participants. (... [Read more...]

Alteryx integrates with Revolution R Enterprise

October 15, 2013 | David Smith

You already know that R is an amazingly powerful language for data analysis, but what if you're not a programmer? Or, what if you want to make the data manipulations, visualizations or statistical models you've developed in R available to business analysts, marketers, managers or other non-programming types? That's why ... [Read more...]

Bio7 1.7.1 MacOSX Released

October 15, 2013 | » R

15.10.2013 Finally i released  Bio7 1.7.1 for MacOSX. This release is bundled with a Java Runtime Environment and the latest R version (3.0.2) for MacOSX. For the plot functionality eventually XQuartz has to be installed (if not already installed!). Please note the installation requirements at the bottom of the page. Here are some ... [Read more...]

Science at the speed of ligth

October 15, 2013 | ibartomeus

May be is not going that fast, but at the speed of R at least. And R is pretty quick. This has pros and cons. I think that understanding the drawbacks is key to maximize the good things of speed, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

playing along with Elias Wegert in R: X <-…

October 15, 2013 | Isomorphismes

sine mis-calculated the angles on sine mid-res, small cex, pch=46, sine low-res, small cex, pch=46 z^17th power sine in HCL rather than HSV cosh z+zz+zzz+zzzz+zzzzz+zzzzzz+zzzzzzz+zzzzzzzz+zzzzzzzzz+zzzzzzzzzzplaying along with Elias Wegert in R: X * complex(imaginary=.05) + t(X)/20 #twist & shout X hcl(... [Read more...]

Next Kölner R User Meeting: 18 Oktober 2013

October 14, 2013 | Markus Gesmann

Quick reminder: The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 18 October 2013. We will discuss and hear about the apply family of functions and the XLConnect package. Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like ... [Read more...]

Beta Distribution and the NJ U.S. Senate Election

October 14, 2013 | Wesley

The beta distribution is highly flexible distribution and applies to many situations and environments. The beta distribution applies well when there are percentages. The upcoming New Jersey U.S. Senate election on Wednesday fits that criterion quite well. So here I applied the beta distribution to some pre-election polls where ... [Read more...]

How To Put Your Meetup On the Map (Literally)

October 14, 2013 | Guest Author

This is a guest post by Alan Briggs. Alan is a Data Scientist with Elder Research, Inc. assisting with the development of predictive analytic capabilities for national security clients in the Washington, DC Metro area. He is President-Elect of the Maryland … Continue reading → The post How To Put Your Meetup ... [Read more...]

MCMSki IV, Jan. 6-8, 2014, Chamonix (news #10)

October 14, 2013 | xi'an

This a final reminder about the October 15 deadlines for MCMSki IV: First, the early bird rate for the registration ends up on October 15. Second, the young investigator travel support can only be requested up to October 15 as well. (For those waiting for the decision about the support to register, the ... [Read more...]

Four moments of portfolios

October 14, 2013 | Pat

What good are the skewness and kurtosis of portfolios? Previously The post “Cross-sectional skewness and kurtosis: stocks and portfolios” looked at skewness and kurtosis in portfolios.  The key difference between that post and this one is what distribution is being looked at. The previous post specified a single time and ... [Read more...]

Applying an Operation to a List of Variables

October 14, 2013 | andrew

Just a quick note on a short hack that I cobbled together this morning. I have an analysis where I need to perform the same set of operations to a list of variables. In order to do this in a compact and robust way, I wanted to write a loop ... [Read more...]

Interactive 3D in Shiny (shinyRGL)

October 13, 2013 | Jeff Allen

The rgl package has been used to produce rich, interactive 3D graphics within R using the OpenGL framework for some time. The rgl authors also added the ability to export to WebGL, allowing R authors to produce interactive 3D graphics that were accessible from within any modern web browser. This ... [Read more...]

rPython – R Interface to Python

October 13, 2013 | statcompute

[This article was first published on Yet Another Blog in Statistical Computing » S+/R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. > library(rPython) Loading required package: RJSONIO > ### load r data.frame ### > data(iris) > r_df1 <- iris > class(r_df1) [1] "data.frame" > head(r_df1, n = 3) Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa > ### pass r data.frame to python dict ### > python.assign('py_dict1', r_df1) > python.exec('print type(py_dict1)') <type 'dict'> > ### convert python dict to pandas DataFrame ### > python.exec('import pandas as pd') > python.exec('py_df = pd.DataFrame(py_dict1)') > python.method.call('py_df', 'info') <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'> Int64Index: 150 entries, 0 to 149 Data columns (total 5 columns): Petal.Length 150 non-null values Petal.Width 150 non-null values Sepal.Length 150 non-null values Sepal.Width 150 non-null values Species 150 non-null values dtypes: float64(4), object(1)NULL > python.exec('print py_df.head(3)') Petal.Length Petal.Width Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Species 0 1.4 0.2 5.1 3.5 setosa 1 1.4 0.2 4.9 3.0 setosa 2 1.3 0.2 4.7 3.2 setosa > [...] [Read more...]

UK House Prices vs. Household Incomes

October 13, 2013 | Joe'sDataDiner

There seems nothing the British press likes more than a good house price story. Both the OECD and 'The Economist' studies quoted in The Telegraph recently use the house price to household income ratio as a consideration of affordability and sustainabil...
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