Days ago a study says that Santiago, city where I live, has one of the best public transport system in LATAM (WAT?! define best please!). So I've search for some information and I found this. Anyway I tried to find some related data/gtfs/information to work/play and I ... [Read more...]

These are the slides from a presentation today at the European conference of the IMA, held in Maastricht, 23rd to 24th October, 2014. Microsimulation, as its name suggests, is about modelling things at the individual-level. In practice, this usually means estimating the characteristics of people using statistical or econometric techniques. Microsimulation, ... [Read more...]

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In the last couple of weeks I have rewritten some core parts of my sjPlot-package and also revised the package- and online documentation. Most notably are the changes that affect theming and appearance of plots and figures. There’s a new function called sjp.setTheme which now sets theme-options for ... [Read more...]

LaTeX lets you create lovely, complex mathematical functions from typed text. Plotly will render LaTeX in annotations, labels, and titles. In this post, we’ll show how it works. 1. MATLAB plotting with LaTeX First, here’s an example using Plotly’s MATLAB API. This is a visualization of Bessel Functions ... [Read more...]

The R-Spain Conferences have been taking place since 2009 as an expression of the growing interest that R elicits in many fileds. The organisers are the Comunidad R Hispano (R-es). The community supports many groups and initiatives aimed to develop … Sigue leyendo → [Read more...]

You only know two things about Docker. First, it uses Linuxcontainers. Second, the Internet won't shut up about it. -- attributed to Solomon Hykes, Docker CEO So what is Docker? Docker is a relatively new open source application and service, which is seeing interest across a number of areas. It ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert One of the most interesting R related presentations at last week’s Strata Hadoop World Conference in New York City was the session on Distributed R by Sunil Venkayala and Indrajit Roy, both of HP Labs. In short, Distributed R is an open source project with the ... [Read more...]

Today, Joyent and several members of the Node.js community announced a proposal for a Node.js Advisory Board as a next step towards a fully open governance model for the Node.js open source project. The Node.js Advisory Board will provide input to the Node.js project leadership ... [Read more...]

HERE is a product by Nokia, formerly called Nokia maps and before that, Ovi maps. It's the result of the acquisition of NAVTEQ in 2007 combined with Plazes and Metacarta, among others. It has a geocoding API, mapping tiles, routing services, and other things. I'm focused on the geocoding service. Under ... [Read more...]

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I wanted to describe a little helper I am using to help refine the places I want to apply at since I am going to be on the Economics Job Market this year. The two main websites were job openings are advertised are: EconJobMarket Job Openings for Economists Now JOE ... [Read more...]

Why? Since the latest Mac OS X update, 10.10 "Yosemite", was released last Thursday, there have been complaints springing up online of the progress bar woefully underestimating the actual time to complete installation. More specifically, it appeared as if, for a certain group of people (myself included), the installer would stall ... [Read more...]

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It was very clear that the performance of the first simmer version was lagging behind. The 2.0 release introduces a C++ based engine and comes with a significant performance boost versus the previous version. While the performance can always be further improved I’m currently quite satisfied with it. Future refinement ... [Read more...]

Let’s face it, sometimes the struggle in R can become frustrating, depressing, daunting, or just monotonous.  For those moments when you need a little positive feedback, some encouragement, or a pat on the back, I thought this might help.  Maybe I ... [Read more...]

As usual, you can find everything on the Stan Home Page. Drop us a line on the stan-users group if you have problems with installs or questions about Stan or coding particular models. New Interfaces We’d like to welcome two new interfaces: MatlabStan by Brian Lau, and  Stan.jl (... [Read more...]

Today I submitted a new release of BayesFactor, version 0.9.9, to CRAN. Among the new features are support for contingency table analyses, via the function contingencyTableBF, and analysis of a single proportion, via the function proportionBF. Other fe... [Read more...]

After their presentation at the international “user!” conference, data analysis specialist eoda starts the public alpha testing of translate2R. With the start of alpha testing the innovative migration solution by the company hailing from Kassel discards the working title “translateR” and takes on the final product brand name “translate2... [Read more...]