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Are you a talented software engineer who would like to build out the R ecosystem and help more companies access the power of R? Microsoft (Revolution Analytics' parent) is hiring a new team to do just that: Our mission is to empower enterprises to easily and cost-effectively build high-scale analytics ... [Read more...]

Casual users of a system want to learn a few simple rules that enable them to get most things done. Many languages have a design principle of only providing one way of doing things. Members of one language family are known for providing umpteen different ways of doing something and ... [Read more...]

A new major version 5.000 of Armadillo was released by Conrad a couple of days ago. Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use with a syntax deliberately close to a Matlab. This version brings several ... [Read more...]

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I often get asked how to fit different multilevel models (or individual growth models, hierarchical linear models or linear mixed-models, etc.) in R. In this guide I have compiled some of the more common and/or useful models (at least common in clinical psychology), and how to fit them using ... [Read more...]

by Vidisha Vachharajani Freelance Statistical Consultant R showcases several useful clustering tools, but the one that seems particularly powerful is the marriage of hierarchical clustering with a visual display of its results in a heatmap. The term “heatmap” is often confusing, making most wonder – which is it? A "colorful visual ... [Read more...]

Background R relies on package repositories for initial installation of a package via install.packages(). A crucial second step is update.packages(): For all currently installed packages, a list of available updates is constructed or offered for either one-by-one or bulk updates. This keeps the local packages in sync with ... [Read more...]

I forgot where I originally found the code to do this, but I recently had to dig it out again to remind myself how to draw two different y axes on the same plot to show the values of two different features of the data. This is somewhat distinct from ... [Read more...]

Gord Sissons, Feng Li In a previous blog we showed how we could use the R BatchJobs package with OpenLava to accelerate a single-threaded k-means calculation by breaking the workload into chunks and running  them as serial jobs. R users frequently need to find solutions to parallelize workloads, and while ... [Read more...]

I've been buried in work lately but thought I'd share the slides from two recent talks. The first is from the Bay Area RUG. Since someone filmed the talks, I was waiting to post the slides. The video of my t... [Read more...]

  If you’ve spent more than 30 minutes with me, you probably know that I’m a bit of an R fanatic. When I meet someone doing analytical work who uses software like Excel or SPSS, I inevitably go into my “R Salesman” mode. Unfortunately, after I spend 10-30 minutes trying ... [Read more...]

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A recent factor analysis project (as discussed previously here, here, and here) gave me an opportunity to experiment with some different ways of visualizing highly multidimensional data sets. Factor analysis results are often presented in tables of factor loadings, which are good when you want the numerical details, but bad ... [Read more...]

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The 13th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2015) Sydney, Australia, 8–9 August 2015 (co-located with SIGKDD’15) URL: http://ausdm15.ausdm.org/ The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. It … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Date: Wednesday 29 April Time: 5.45pm for a 6pm start Cost: Nil Where: SAS Offices, 12 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT 2600 RSVP link: http://www.iapa.org.au/Event/ACTChapterEvent29AprilBigDataInSocialSciences Join us for our next ACT Chapter Event on the 29th of April. We have guest … Continue reading → [Read more...]

We have been working on a new charting engine for xts::plot.xts for the past couple years. It started with Michael Weylandt's work during the 2012 Google Summer of Code, and Ross Bennett took up the torch during the 2014 GSoC.This new engine improves t... [Read more...]

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