The graph below summarizes the projections from a variety of sources. This week’s summary includes projections from: CBS’s Dave Richard, CBS’s Jamey Eisenberg, Fantasy Football Sharks, Fantasy Football Today, ESPN,[...] The post Wide Receiver Gold Mining – Week 14 appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

RSiteCatalyst version 1.4.2 is now available on CRAN. This update was primarily bug fixes with one additional feature added. Fixed QueueRanked function to allow multiple SAINT classifications to be specified. This allows for breaking down a SAINT classification with another SAINT classification, such as breaking down tracking codes by marketing channel ... [Read more...]

Lee Edlefsen, Chief Scientist at Revolution Analytics, spoke about Big Data in R at the FHCRC a week or two back. He introduced the PEMA or parallel external memory algorithm. “Parallel external memory algorithms (PEMA's) allow solution of both ... [Read more...]

Earlier this month I gave a short talk about dplyr at the Los Angeles R... [Read more...]

When I joined Joyent this past summer, two things were clear to me. First, that Docker had sparked a “container revolution” that would define the next era of cloud and infrastructure management. And, second, that the battle-tested, infrastructure container technology that underpins the Joyent Pub… [Read more...]

I began to think on a nice way of plotting campaign expenditures in a paper I'm working on. I thought this would be something like the following--simple but meaningful even when there are outliers in both tails. Though I like the seniors Tukey's boxplot and scatter plots, I had already ... [Read more...]

Predictive analytics is the practice of extracting information from existing data sets in order to determine patterns and predict future outcomes and trends. We begun with an overview of prediction methods in R, and then discussed of some case studies of how R is being used for real world problems. ... [Read more...]

This is the first of two posts about the performance characteristics of resampling methods. I just had major shoulder surgery, but I've pre-seeded a few blog posts. More will come as I get better at one-handed typing. First, a review: Resampling methods, such as cross-validation (CV) and the bootstrap, can ... [Read more...]

One of my favorite features of R is its meta-programming facilities. It can be simply demonstrated by the following examples. An ordinary use of R is to do statistical computing. We can evaluate something like

<span>sin</span><span>(</span><span>0</span><span>)</span>

[1] 0

Meta-programming in R allows users to manipulate the expression to evaluate. We can ... [Read more...]

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Just after I made my really ugly animated turkey sketch (see post), I saw this much better set of Christmas icons in the Smashing Magazine Article Freebie Christmas Icon Set from Manuela Langella.  While I still remember how to do this, I thought I wo... [Read more...]

As ‘Og’s readers may have noticed, I paid some recent visits to Cross Validated (although I find this too addictive to be sustainable on a long term basis!, and as already reported a few years ago frustrating at several levels from questions asked without any preliminary personal effort, to ... [Read more...]

You have probably seen @coulmont's maps. If you haven't, you should probably go and spend some time on his blog (but please, come back afterwards, I still my story to tell you). Consider for instance the maps we obtained for a post published in Monkey Cage, a few months ago, ... [Read more...]

Since the previous post was fairly popular, I went ahead and built a small shell script (also below) to ease the process of building the OS X Shiny-gist application. After copying the script to a place you can run it from in your PATH and executing a “chmod a+x ... [Read more...]

In a recent blog post, CoreOS essentially declared war on Docker with the announcement of Rocket, their own rival system. This seems to be the essence of the CoreOS criticism of Docker: Unfortunately, a simple re-usable component is not how things are playing out. Docker now is building tools for… [Read more...]

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A new major release of RQuantLib is now on CRAN and getting to Debian. All C++ source files have been rewritten to take advantage of newer Rcpp features. Several Fixed Income functions have been added, or refreshed, thanks to contributions by Michele... [Read more...]

At H2O World 2014, we were fortunate to have Josh Bloch give a reprise of his A Brief, Opinionated History of the API talk that he first delivered at SPLASH 2014. (For those with the time, you can watch a 47 minute 21 second recording of this talk on the H2O.ai ... [Read more...]

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