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How rare are winning streaks in baseball? The post Winning streaks in baseball appeared first on Decision Science News. [Read more...]

A small project I worked on during the last few weeks has now come together in new package RcppTOML which arrived on CRAN yesterday. It provides R with a reader for TOML files. TOML stands for Tom's Obvious Markup Language. And before you roll your eyes, glance at the TOML ... [Read more...]

The unlucky events that took place in Nepal have flooded the web with visualization of the earthquakes from USGS. They normally visualize earthquakes with a colour scale that depends on the age of the event and a marker size that depends on magnitude. I remembered that some time ago I ... [Read more...]

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One of the commonest bioinformatics questions, at Biostars and elsewhere, takes the form: “I have a list of identifiers (X); I want to relate them to a second set of identifiers (Y)”. HGNC gene symbols to Ensembl Gene IDs, for example. When this occurs I have been known to tweet “... [Read more...]

A few days ago, I was asked if we should spend a lot of time to choose the distribution we use, in GLMs, for (actuarial) ratemaking. On that topic, I usually claim that the family is not the most important parameter in the regression model. Consider the following dataset __ db ... [Read more...]

One of the great things about R is that there's so much available to use with it: there are several interfaces to choose from, thousands of add-on packages to extend its capabilites, hundreds of books and on-line tutorials — an abundance of riches to improve your R experience. But with that ... [Read more...]

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Biological diversity (or biodiversity) is a complex concept with many different aspects in it, like species richness, evenness or functional redundancy. My field of research focus on understanding the effect of changing plant diversity on higher trophic levels communities but also ecosystem function. Even if the founding papers of this ... [Read more...]

We are delighted to announce the impressive line up of speakers for September’s London EARL Conference.  The speakers represent industries including Energy, Leisure, Insurance, FCMG, Finance, Market Research, Healthcare and Sport and offer real world examples of the usage and application of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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In this post, I’m going to be looking at the progressive performance of different tree-based classification methods in R, using the Kaggle Otto Group Product Classification Challenge as an example. This competition challenges participants to correctly classify products into 1 of 9 classes based on data in 93 features. I’ll start ... [Read more...]

Two years ago, I wrote a software package for R called “rNOMADS” that interfaces with online weather and sea ice model repositories to gather data in real time, for free.  The data are delivered in two ways: a simple, pure R, cross platform interface using GrADS-DODS, and binary files in ... [Read more...]

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(This is a guest post by Ben Marwick, originally published on ATOR blog) This short post is written for archaeologists who frequently perform common data analysis and [Read more...]

During the Christmas break I worked on some code to show unemployment by NUTS 2 region. At that point no 2014 data was available. When I noticed the 214 was available I dug up the code and plotted again.Data and CodeAs written, the code was made beginn... [Read more...]

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