Vega-Lite 1.0 was released this past week. I had been meaning to play with it for a while but I’ve been burned before by working with unstable APIs and was waiting for this to bake to a stable release. Thankfully, there were no new shows in the Fire TV, Apple ... [Read more...]

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The US Census makes a number of its databases available to developers via the Census API. One of those databases is the International Data Base, in which the Census department provides historic demographic breakdowns (population by age and sex) for many countries, along with projections through 2050. Kyle Walker created the ... [Read more...]

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] Guest post by Amit Thombre. (you can email Amit with questions) Introduction: – George Box and [Read more...]

          Video presentations from last year’s London EARL conference are now available online. There are some we’ve not been allowed to release for permission reasons, some we’re unable to release for technical reasons and a couple that … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Drawing a line through a cloud of point (ie doing a linear regression) is the most basic analysis one may do. It is sometime fitting well to the data, but in some (many) situations, the relationships between variables are not linear. In this case one may follow three different ways: (... [Read more...]

In case you missed my free webinar on “Getting Started with Spatial Data Analysis with R“,  here is the recording. You can access the material used for this webinar from Domino Data Lab‘s platform using the following links: The Slides [domino-presentation.pdf] The RMarkdown Script [ReadMe.Rmd] The Whole ... [Read more...]

By Joseph Rickert The ability to generate synthetic data with a specified correlation structure is essential to modeling work. As you might expect, R’s toolbox of packages and functions for generating and visualizing data from multivariate distributions is impressive. The basic function for generating multivariate normal data is mvrnorm() ... [Read more...]

For those of you who are interested in web scraping with R. Enjoy the slides of our presentation on this topic during the last RBelgium meetup. The talk is about using rvest, RSelenium and our own package scrapeit.core which makes scraping deployment, ... [Read more...]

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One-day short course at NACCB congress in Madison, WI, on July 16th, with Peter Solymos and Subhash Lele. [Read more...]

Slides for Hadley’s talk The slides for all the other talks from the workshop are also now online at wombat2016.org [Read more...]

New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has just released the New Zealand Tourism Dashboard, an interactive application which allows NZ residents (and curious onlookers everywhere) to explore the economic impact of tourism in the far-flung nation. The dashboard is implemented using Shiny, and all of the graphics and ... [Read more...]

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