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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It is the eve of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary election.  This is a simple follow-up on my post from last Friday as I was curious how the final pre-Election Day polling was going to fall.  It’s fairly clear who is going to get the most votes.  ... [Read more...]

Larry Wasserman, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is a graduate of University of Toronto, a COPSS Award winner, and a leading statistician in Bayesian analysis and inference. In this post, he discusses his views on the question Is Bayesian Inference a Religion? Two people will each spend 15 consecutive minutes in ... [Read more...]

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Graphic modeling can be nerve-stretching and stressful. eoda’s R academy will help you to manage and facilitate your work concerning graphic modeling as there are multiple possibilities to visualize contents appealingly. R provides features to create several kinds of graphics like boxplots, histograms, or scatterplots. The following graphics shall ... [Read more...]

Hey there! After my post about sentiment analysis using the Viralheat API I found another service. Datumbox ist offering special sentiment analysis for Twitter. But this API doesn´t just offer sentiment analysis, it offers a much more detailed analysis. „The currently supported API functions are: Sentiment Analysis, Twitter Sentiment ... [Read more...]

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Despite the refreshing change that the journal PLOS ONE represents in terms of open access and an refreshing change to the stupidity that is quality/novelty selection by the two or three people that review a paper, it’s submission requirements are far less progressive. Yes they make you jump ... [Read more...]

each year ending in a two or a seven, census bureau employees stow away their eponymous decennial population count to focus on the economic census.  and when charged with gauging the health of the american economy, who better to survey than busine... [Read more...]

The Metropolis algorithm, and its generalization (Metropolis-Hastings algorithm) provide elegant methods for obtaining sequences of random samples from complex probability distributions. When I first read about modern MCMC methods, I had trouble visualizing the convergence of Markov chains in higher dimensional cases. So, I thought I might put together a ... [Read more...]