by Don Boyd, Senior Fellow, Rockefeller Institute of Government The Rockefeller Institute of Government is excited to be developing models to simulate the finances of public pension funds, using R. Public pension funds invest contributions from governments and public sector workers in an effort to ensure that they can pay ... [Read more...]

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a global barometer of public opinion, the world values survey (wvs) clocks in as your best source of cross-cultural moods, attitudes.   you might find its most famous product sweepingly general, but who among us has never ever swept a smidgen of n... [Read more...]

Pinned, entropy augmented, digitally normal distribution, of no particular work-related use and thus perfectly suitable for today. Code in R: iters = 1000 sd = 2 precision = 20   results = rep(0,iters)   for(i in 1:iters) { x = floor(rnorm(20,5,sd) %% 10) results[i] = paste(c('.',x),sep="",collapse="") }   results = as.numeric(results)   plot(density(results,... [Read more...]

It felt like it would never happen, but RSiteCatalyst v1.4 is now available on CRAN! There are numerous changes in this version of the package, so unlike previous posts, there won’t be any code examples. THIS VERSION IS ONE BIG BREAKING CHANGE While not the most important improvement, it ... [Read more...]

"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."Herbert SimonWe categorize our world so that we can ignore most of it. In order to see figure, everything else must become ground. Once learned, the process seems automatic, and we forget how har... [Read more...]

Introduction Lately I was trying to put together some 2D histograms in R and found that there are many ways to do it, with directions on how to do so scattered across the internet in blogs, forums and of course, Stackoverflow.As such I thought I'd give each a go ... [Read more...]

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We are happy to announce a new release of littler. A few minor things have changes since the last release: A few new examples were added or updated, including use of the fabulous new docopt package by Edwin de Jonge which makes command-... [Read more...]

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history... [Read more...]

Overview American writer Lewis Grizzard once said that “The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points[...] The post Points Per Touch (PPT): Running Backs appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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From my perspective the most important event that happened at useR! 2014 was that I got to meet the 0xdata team and now, long story short, here I am introducing the latest version of H2O, labeled Lagrange (2.6.0.11), to the R and greater data science communities. Before joining 0xdata, I was ... [Read more...]