We're starting to see a deluge of companies who businesses are all about making data analysis/science/insight "easy for the non-expert". We've been here before, quite a few times sadly. When I started writing software 12 years ago, there was... [Read more...]

I'm working on some really interesting stuff at the moment, the details of which I can't discuss for reasons of national security (not really). However, one of the things I've been doing a lot of is searching though lots of different combina... [Read more...]

I've been playing around with the rgl package in the last week, as part of an ongoing quest to come up with nice-looking (but more importantly, useful) data vizualisations. It's a nice little package, and once you've run through the excell... [Read more...]