In this post we will discuss about building a trading strategy using R. Before dwelling into the trading jargons using R let us spend some time understanding what R is. R is an open source. There are more than 4000 add on packages,18000 plus members of LinkedIn’s group and close ... [Read more...]

I've done a couple posts on the SOTU speeches.  In the past these dealt with word count, approval, and the vague notion that the applause the president receives has a relationship with his approval rating at that time (which had a lower correlation this year in fact). Wired had a ... [Read more...]

I've done a couple posts on the SOTU speeches.  In the past these dealt with word count, approval, and the vague notion that the applause the president receives has a relationship with his approval rating at that time (which had a lower correlatio... [Read more...]

It is always fun to look back and reflect on the past year. Inspired by Christoph Safferling's post on top packages from published in 2015, I decided to have my own go at the top R trends of 2015. Contrary to Safferling's post I'll try to also (1) look at packages from previous ... [Read more...]

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In my most recent post "Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce" I introduced Turkopticon, the social art project designed to provide basic tools for Amazon's massive Mechanical TURK workforce to share information about employers (requesters).Turkopticon, has a been a runaway success with nearly 285 thousands reviews submitted by over 17 thousand ... [Read more...]

In my most recent post "Turkopticon: Defender of Amazon's Anonymous Workforce" I introduced Turkopticon, the social art project designed to provide basic tools for Amazon's massive Mechanical TURK workforce to share information about employers (requesters).Turkopticon, has a been a runaway success with nearly 285 thousands reviews submitted by over 17 thousand ... [Read more...]

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by Steph Locke Today, I needed to work on a package that had numerous dependencies on internal packages and ones from CRAN. To be able to handle dependencies in the installation process, I needed something like CRAN so that install.packages() … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This is the first post of a series that will look at how to create graphics in R using the plot function from the base package. There are of course other packages to make cool graphs in R (like ggplot2 or lattice), but so far plot always gave me satisfaction. ... [Read more...]

by John Mount Ph.D. Data Scientist at Win-Vector LLC Let's talk about the use and benefits of parallel computation in R. IBM's Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer (Wikipedia). Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously." Wikipedia quoting: Gottlieb, Allan; Almasi, ... [Read more...]

The role of the data analyst is changing. The best analysts know that different tasks require different tools. The End of Bundling Once upon a time, data purchases came bundled with data consumption software. You couldn’t just buy a dataset; you had to install a proprietary data downloader. You ... [Read more...]

As a follow up to an article on using SQL in R, I just had an new article published at Simple Talk that considers ways to manipulate data in R that are cumbersome in SQL as well as ways to replace SQL statements with functional equivalents. [Read more...]

As a follow up to an article on using SQL in R, I just had an new article published at Simple Talk that considers ways to manipulate data in R that are cumbersome in SQL as well as ways to replace SQL statements with functional equivalents. [Read more...]

I routinely use melt() and cast() from the reshape2 package as part of my data munging workflow. Recently I've noticed that the data frames I've been casting are often extremely sparse. Stashing these in a dense data structure just feels wasteful. And the dismal drone of page thrashing is unpleasant. ... [Read more...]

Formatting data for output in a table can be a bit of a pain in R. The package formattable by Kun Ren and Kenton Russell provides some intuitive functions to create good looking tables for the R console or HTML quickly. The package home page demonstrat... [Read more...]

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Continuing with the series analyzing republican debates, the latest in South Carolina confirms a few of the trends i’ve been observing, mainly that: Trump likes to repeat himself (maybe he likes to stick with what has worked so far?). Trump also likes to keep it short: everyone else says ... [Read more...]

I live in Utah, an extremely dry state. Like much of the western United States, Utah is experiencing water stress from increasing demand, episodes of drought, and conflict over water rights. At the same time, Utahns use a lot of water per capita compared to residents of other states. According ... [Read more...]