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I am working on a package to collect common regular expressions into a canned collection that users can easily use without having to know regexes. The package, qdapRegex, has a bunch of functions in the form of rm_xxx. The only … Continue reading → [Read more...]

My sjPlot-package was just updated on CRAN, introducing a new function called sjp.emm.int to plot estimated marginal means (least-squares means) of linear models with interaction terms. Or: plotting adjusted means of an ANCOVA. The idea to this function came up when we wanted to analyze the effect of ... [Read more...]

The Rfiglet Package For those who don't know what figlet is, it's a command line utility for creating ascii logos.  Rfiglet, therefore, is a set of R bindings for figlet. Works about like you would expect: There are over 150 fonts available, and you can see an example of each one ... [Read more...]

Today I wanted to do some point pattern analysis in R using the fantastic package spatstat.The problem was that I only had a point shapefile, so I googled a way to transform a shapefile into a ppp object (which is the point pattern object used by spats... [Read more...]

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heaven knows we've all been there: you're in a heated argument with some patriotic zealot who thinks (insert country here) has the best labor force on earth.  you know they're just spewing made-up-statistic after made-up-statistic, but you don't h... [Read more...]

A New York Times article yesterday discovers the 80-20 rule: that 80% of a typical data science project is sourcing cleaning and preparing the data, while the remaining 20% is actual data analysis. The article gives short shrift to this important task by calling it "janitorial work", but whether you call it ... [Read more...]

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.” ― Stendhal The Interview Tal Galili is,... [Read more...]

You’ve asked and we’ve listened. The audio content from our DataScience.LA interviews will now be... [Read more...]

“For things to remain the same, everything must change.” (Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa) In less than a month, Scots will decide if they want Scotland tied or apart of UK. Over the last days, I’ve noticed a variety of projections in the British press about this, but ... [Read more...]

In Example 8.40, side-by-side histograms, we showed how to generate histograms for some continuous variable, for each level of a categorical variable in a data set. An anonymous reader asked how we would do this if both the variables were continuous. ... [Read more...]

So several weeks ago, I decided to listen on a webinar (and myself will be giving one on using quantstrat … Continue reading → [Read more...]

One of the very exciting and promising developments from RStudio is the rmarkdown/shiny/ggvis combination of tools. We’re on the verge of static graphs and presentations being as old-fashioned as overhead transparencies. I’ve spent the last couple of days giving these tools a test spin. Lots of ... [Read more...]

GEFCom 2014 is the most advanced energy forecasting competition ever organized, both in terms of the data involved, and in terms of the way the forecasts will be evaluated. So everyone interested in energy forecasting should head over to the competition webpage and start forecasting: www.gefcom.org. This time, the ... [Read more...]

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I mentioned previously, that I have been updating the Mark-Recapture vignettes.  That has morphed into a document that is an update of the Mark-Recapture Closed and Open vignettes and the depletion/removal vignettes and associated FSA functions.  Some of the changes … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Navigation gets you from where you are to where you want to be. Speaking of navigation, you can jump to selected sections of this post: Navigation; R-bloggers; Task views; Rdocumentation.org; sos package; ??; apropos; ls; methods; getAnywhere; :::; find; args; grep; %in%; str; getwd; file.choose; Spyglass summary; browser; See also. ... [Read more...]

I was reading the Julia documentation the other day. They do speed comparisons to other languages. Obviously R does not come out very well. The R code for quicksort is here and I noticed it was not vectorized at all. So I wondered if it could be improv... [Read more...]