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This is the bimonthly R Jobs post (for 2014-06-02), based on the R-bloggers’ sister website: R-users.com. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from the [Read more...]

If you're doing any kind of scientific computing and not using version control, you're doing it wrong. The git version control system and GitHub, a web-based service for hosting and collaborating on git-controlled projects, have both become wildly popu... [Read more...]

One of the reasons I switched to Python from R is because Python’s phylogenetic capabilities are very well developed, but R is catching up. I’m moving into phylogenetic community ecology, which requires a lot of tree manipulation and calculation of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This is a sponsored post by Richard Heimann. Rich is Chief Data Scientist at L-3 NSS and recently published Social Media Mining with R (Packt Publishing, 2014) with co-author Nathan Danneman, also a Data Scientist at L-3 NSS Data Tactics. … Continue reading → The post Win Free eCopies of Social Media Mining ... [Read more...]

The book Social Media Mining with R is a timely text for researchers and practitioners, specially those in social sciences who want to apply the method of social media mining and learn basic R. The author provided a good balance of theory and step-by-s... [Read more...]

I want to present a re-analysis of the raw data from two studies that investigated whether physical cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments – from the original study (n = 40; Schnall, Benton, & Harvey, 2008), and from a direct replication (n = 208, Johnson, Cheung, & Donnellan, 2014). Both data sets are provided […] [Read more...]

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince) Yesterday I found a package called circular and I could not suppress to do this: Make your own floweRs: [Read more...]

First one to say geom_ribbon loses. I was plotting some data for a colleague, had two lines (repeated experiment) per person (time on the x axis) facetted by id, I thought it’d be nice to shade the area between the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is a remarkable biannual survey of health status, care access, and demographics for California residents. The 2011-2012 public use survey data has recently been released and is freely available after registering at the CHIS site. CHIS currently offers data in SAS, Stata, and SPSS ... [Read more...]

I have been doing some background reading on group sequential trials for an upcoming project. One of the papers I came across in terms of the required numerical methods is "Repeated Significance Tests on Accumulating Data" (Armitage, et al, 1969). In t... [Read more...]

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When working with strings regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool to look for specific patterns in the strings. In informatics a string is several characters put together, this can be words, sentences, or DNA code. Regular expression were developed for the language of Perl (http://www.perl.org/) and ... [Read more...]

Project Tycho includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested.I have looked at Ptoject Tycho's measles data before, general look, incidence,... [Read more...]