A while ago I had a post: 'Should I use premium Diesel? Setup. Since that time the data has been acquired. This post describes the results.DataData is registered by me in 2014 and 2015. 2014 has standard Diesel, while 2015 has premium. Both are fr... [Read more...]

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I developed an R script to retrieve NOAA PORTS data for the Delaware Estuary overnight and generate an animated water surface elevation plot.  I hope to include this in a larger Delaware River Dashboard web page containing graphs of near real-time... [Read more...]

Revolution R Open 8.0.3 is now available for download for Windows, OS X, Red Hat, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. This release includes seveal new features: it upgrades RRO to the R 3.1.3 engine, which adds several new features to the R language, adds support for Ubuntu 15.04, and updates the checkpoint package for reproducibility. ... [Read more...]

After a really long break, I’d will resume my blogging activity. It is actually a full circle for me, since one of the first posts that kick started this blog, matured enough to be published in a peer-reviewed journal last week. In the next few posts I will use ... [Read more...]

New package eurostat released in CRAN [Read more...]

US Officer Involved Shootings Mar-Apr 2015 with Shiny Now everyone can be a data analyst with RStudio’s Shiny package. Fellow R programmer and Las Vegas import, Steve Wells, has created a R-markdown report that shows off some of the features of this dynamic framework.  Using data derived from the Gun ... [Read more...]

*** This work has been supported by a grant from the Spencer Foundation (#201400002). The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Spencer Foundation. *** It seems that the heir to WinBUGS is Stan. With Stan, reasonably complex Bayesian models can be expressed in a ... [Read more...]