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If you want to get started doing data science with R in the cloud, a good place to start is Stephen Elston's free O'Reilly report, Data Science in the Cloud with Azure ML and R. But if you learn better with a show-and-tell approach, he now also has an O'Reilly ... [Read more...]

Here is my MSc thesis, which was submitted to the University of Sheffield in September 2015. The pdf is here.Title: A Meta-analysis of Relative Clause Processing in Mandarin Chinese using Bias Modelling AbstractThe reading difficulty associated wi... [Read more...]

We're pleased to announce that a special issue of the American Statistician on "Statistics and the Undergraduate Curriculum" (November, 2015) is available at http://amstat.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/69/4. Johanna Hardin (Pomona College) and Nick were the guest editors. There are a number of excellent and provocative papers that reinforce the ... [Read more...]

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By Stephanie Locke After some conversations at the coffee maker yesterday, I accepted the challenge of, wait for it… BUILDING A STAR WARS THEMED R PACKAGE! Some quick Googling found a JavaScript library that will generate some Star Wars based … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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A few weeks late, here is a follow-up analysis using R, of the transcript of the latest Republican primary debate held at Las Vegas, Nevada. Like the previous post, it should be interesting to see some word-clouds and some trends from the front-runners (and of course, Donald Trump). Getting and ... [Read more...]

The Data-Driven Weekly is kicking off 2016 by exploring how big data and analytics is powering data-driven business in different …Continue reading → [Read more...]

EDIT: Thanks to timvink for bringing to my attention library(ggrepel) which can be installed via devtools::install_github("slowkow/ggrepel"). It fixes the overlap of labels in the first figure below. Great! This is something I have been looking for! Last year in December, in time for the big ... [Read more...]

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Last year in December, in time for the big release, myself and a colleague at The Data Lab were having some fun with an Star Wars character names that we had scraped from Wikipedia. Luckily for us a national outlet, The Scotsman picked up on this and put out an ... [Read more...]

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David Donoho published a fascinating paper based on a presentation at the Tukey Centennial workshop, Princeton NJ Sept 18 2015. You can download the full paper from here.  The paper got quite the attention on Hacker News, Data Science Central, Simply Stats, Xi’an’s blog, srown ion medium, and probably others. ... [Read more...]

By Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Spanish R Users Organizing Committee As every autumn since 2009, Spanish R users gathered at their annual meeting. It is organised by Spanish R users group ‘Comunidad R-Hispano’and took place in 5-6 November in the historic city of Salamanca. The 7th Meeting of Spanish R ... [Read more...]

[This article was first published on Reimagined Invention, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share [Read more...]

I was asked to review Learning Shiny (Hernán G. Resnizky, Packt Publishing, 2015). I found the book to be useful, motivating and generally easy to read. I'd already spent some time dabbling with Shiny, but the book helped me graduate from paddling in the shallows to wading out into the ... [Read more...]

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One of the themes of the Christmas movie classic Love Actually is the interconnections between people of different communities and cultures, from the Prime Minister of the UK to a young student in London. StackOverflow's David Robinson brings these connections to life by visualizing the network diagram of 20 characters in ... [Read more...]

Hexamaps are gaining in popularity. Most notably has been the versions, where the map of the USA has been made into a hexamap. But people have also made maps of Europe using hexagons. The idea is that one unit is one hexagon. So in case of the US, each state ... [Read more...]