by Joseph Rickert The R/Finance 2015 Conference wrapped up last Saturday at UIC. It has been seven years already, but R/Finance still has the magic! - mostly very high quality presentations and the opportunity to interact and talk shop with some of the most accomplished R developers, financial modelers ... [Read more...]

by Gregory Vandenbrouck Software Engineer, Mirosoft This post is the second in a series that covers pulling data from various Windows Azure hosted storage solutions (such as MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server) to an R client on Windows or Linux. Last time we covered pulling data from SQL Azure to ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert, Because of its simplicity and good performance over a wide spectrum of classification problems the Naïve Bayes classifier ought to be on everyone's short list of machine learning algorithms. Now, with version 7.4 we have a high performance Naïve Bayes classifier in Revolution R Enterprise too. ... [Read more...]

By Mark Malter A few weeks ago, I wrote about my Baseball Stats R shiny application, where I demonstrated how to calculate runs expectancies based on the 24 possible bases/outs states for any plate appearance. In this article, I’ll explain how I expanded on that to calculate the probability ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert The 8th XLDB (Extremely Large Databases) Conference open at Stanford on Tuesday with an outstanding program. This conference has been providing leadership in the "Big Data" world since its first workshop which was held in 2007. For example, the summary report for that year notes: "Both communities (industry ... [Read more...]

by Andrew Ekstrom Recovering physicist, applied mathematician and graduate student in applied Stats and systems engineering We know that R is a great system for performing statistical analysis. The price is quite nice too ;-) . As a graduate student, I need a cheap replacement for Matlab and/or Maple. Well, ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert A strong case can be made that base R graphics supplemented with either the lattice library or ggplot2 for plotting by subgroups provides everything a statistician might need for both exploratory data analysis and for developing clear, crisp for communicating results. However, it is abundantly clear that ... [Read more...]

by Gregory Vandenbrouck Software Engineer at Microsoft This post is the first in a series that covers pulling data from various Windows Azure hosted storage solutions (such as MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server) to an R client on Windows or Linux. We’ll start with a relatively simple case of ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert The following multi-panel graph, which graces the cover of the most recent issue of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics ,JCGS, (Vol 24, Num 1, March 2015) is from the paper by Grolemund and Wickham entitled Visualizing Complex Data With Embedded Plots. The four plots are noteworthy for a ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Last year in a post on interesting R topics presented at the JSM I described how data scientists in Google's human resources department were using R and predictive analytics to better understand the characteristics of its workforce. Google may very well have done the pioneering work, but ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Last Friday and Saturday the NY R Conference briefly lit up Manhattan's Union Square neighborhood as the center of the R world. You may have caught some of the glow on twitter. Jared Lander, volunteers from the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup along with the staff ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert The New York Times is quietly changing the practice of science journalism. The Tuesday April 21, 2015 article: Ebola Lying in Wait, reports on "A growing body of scientific clues - some ambiguous, other substantive" that the Ebola virus may have lain dormant in West African rain forest for ... [Read more...]

by Vidisha Vachharajani Freelance Statistical Consultant R showcases several useful clustering tools, but the one that seems particularly powerful is the marriage of hierarchical clustering with a visual display of its results in a heatmap. The term “heatmap” is often confusing, making most wonder – which is it? A "colorful visual ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Tracking R user group meetings is a good way to stay informed about what's happening in the R world. On Tuesday the Bay Area useR Group (BARUG) met at AdRoll in San Francisco. It was a mini-conference with 6 talks: Bryan Galvin our host at AdRoll (many thanks ... [Read more...]

by Ben Ubah Founder, RPowerLabs No disregard to R's colleagues, R is pioneering the creation of online virtual electric power system laboratories via RPowerLABS. RPowerLABS is a project, with the vision of deploying online, a vast array of highly demanded power system simulations for teaching and research using R. It ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert A recent post by David Smith included a map that shows the locations of R user groups around the world. While is exhilarating to see how R user groups span the globe, the map does not give any idea about the size of the community at each ... [Read more...]

by Ari Lamstein Introduction Today I will walk through an analysis of San Francisco Zip Code Demographics using my new R package choroplethrZip. This package creates choropleth maps of US Zip Codes and connects to the US Census Bureau. A choropleth is a map that shows boundaries of regions (such ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert I have written a several posts about the Parallel External Memory Algorithms (PEMAs) in Revolution Analytics’ RevoScaleR package, most recently about rxBTrees(), but I haven’t said much about rxExec(). rxExec() is not itself a PEMA, but it can be used to write parallel algorithms. Pre-built PEMAs ... [Read more...]

by Sherri Rose Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy Harvard Medical School Targeted learning methods build machine-learning-based estimators of parameters defined as features of the probability distribution of the data, while also providing influence-curve or bootstrap-based confidence internals. The theory offers a general template for creating targeted maximum likelihood estimators ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert There have been well over a hundred books on R published within the last ten years. Most of these texts with titles like “Introduction Statistics with R” or “Time Series with R” offer the reader a way to jump right in and perform some concrete statistical analysis ... [Read more...]