div__Salvino A. Salvaggio, PhDSe Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Twitter e SnapChat —per citarne solo alcuni— fanno integralmente parte della vita quotidiana di giovani e meno giovani, non sono gli unici social networks sul mercato. Instagram, per esempio, e' stato adottato in massa perché consente di condividere facilmente su Internet foto ... [Read more...]

In these days, I was talking about an R package I devel [...] [Read more...]

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This month the Mango Movember team have done a fantastic job of growing the most impressive moustaches. All cash raised is for research and awareness of, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems. You can sponsor them using the following link: … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I and @awpiii were trading news about the power outages in Maine & New Hampshire last night and he tweeted the link to the @PSNH Outage Map. As if the Bing Maps tiles weren’t bad enough, the use of a categorical color scale instead of a sequential one[1] caused sufficient ... [Read more...]

It's Thanksgiving Day here in the US, so we're taking the day off to spend some time with our families and to eat far too much food. If you're in the US or celebrating Thanksgiving elsewhere, enjoy the day! And for everyone in this season of joy, here's a handy ... [Read more...]

The Human Mortality Database is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in demographic data. It is a carefully curated collection of high quality deaths and population data from 37 countries, all in a consistent format with consistent definitions. I have used it many times and never cease to be amazed at ... [Read more...]

Along with all the hoopla on Big Data in recent years came a lot of hype on Hadoop.  This eventually spread to the R world, with sophisticated packages being developed such as rmr to run on top of Hadoop. Hadoop made it convenient to process data in very large distributed ... [Read more...]

All statistical software have a learning curve, and compared to SPSS, R has taken me more time to learn the basics. However, since learning the basics, R seems easier to use than SPSS. Here are 10 tips and tricks (and some resources) I found helpful for getting started with R: Use ... [Read more...]

Tomorrow, for the final lecture of the Mathematical Statistics course, I will try to illustrate - using Monte Carlo simulations - the difference between classical statistics, and the Bayesien approach. The (simple) way I see it is the following, for frequentists, a probability is a measure of the the frequency ... [Read more...]

I did not intend for this little experiment to become a post, but I think the code builds nicely on the XML + rvest combination (also see yesterday’s post) for working with XML/HTML/SVG documents in R. It all started when I was playing on my iPhone i... [Read more...]

Hadley Wickham’s post “rvest: easy web scraping with R” introduces the fine new package rvest very well.  For those now yearning a slightly more advanced example with a little help from pipeR + htmltools + XML, I thought this might fill your yea... [Read more...]

MilanoR staff is happy to announce the next MilanoR mee [...] [Read more...]

If you've lived in or simply love London, a wonderful new book for your coffee-table is London: The Information Capital. In 100 beautifully-rendered charts, the book explores the data that underlies the city and its residents. To create most of these charts, geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti relied on ... [Read more...]

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The National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, and most well-known for hosting Pubmed, the go-to search engine for biomedical literature - every (Medline-indexed) publication goes up there. On a separate but related note, one thing I’m ... [Read more...]

I’ve written previously about some example R scripts I created to extract sea surface temperature data from NOAA’s Optimum Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature products. If you want daily global sea surface temperatures on a 0.25×0.25° grid, they gather those into 1-year files available at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/... [Read more...]

The gridGraphics package provides a function, grid.echo(), that can be used to convert a plot drawn with the graphics package to the same result drawn using grid. This provides access to a variety of grid tools for making customisations and … Continue reading → [Read more...]