The design of the statistical programming language R sits in a slightly uncomfortable place between the functional programming and object oriented paradigms. The upside is you get a lot of the expressive power of both programming paradigms. A downside of this is: the not always useful variability of the language’... [Read more...]

I’ve just released version 1.6.5 of the Computational Journalism Server. This is going to be the last release for a while. Release notes: I removed CoffeeScript and Node.js. I wasn’t using them. I dropped back to Erlang R14B-1.1. Everything tes... [Read more...]

For the past 12 years, KDNuggets has conducted an annual poll asking "What analytics/data mining software you used in the past 12 months for a real project (not just evaluation)". In this year's poll, R was the top-ranked data mining solution, selected by 30.7% of poll respondents. Microsoft Excel was second, at 29.8%. ... [Read more...]

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I thought I’d try out R.net and in doing so I have put together a very simple Excel 2007 add in that connects Excel to R. I’m using .Net 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 pro with the latest commit of R.Net, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I’ve used R for many use cases and Text Mining is one of those. Below is a small snippet to get you started with R and Text Mining. require(fortunes) require(tm) sentences [Read more...]

I’ve just received an announcement from Michael Lang that packages BatchJobs and BatchExperiments have been added to the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). From the announcement: The package BatchJobs implements the basic objects and procedu... [Read more...]

I spent around 40 minutes on the last post yesterday, which delayed my bedding time and caused my sleepiness in the morning. So, I’m starting to write earlier tonight. The fifth problem is to calculate the smallest composite for given numbers. 2520 is … Continue reading → [Read more...]

The next release of open-source R, codenamed "Roasted Marshmallows", is scheduled to be released on June 22, according to this announcement on the r-announce mailing list. Don't expect too many changes in this update: despite the fact that "there have been very few issues with 2.15.0 ... some people may be waiting superstitiously ... [Read more...]

Forestry is the province of variability. From a spatial point of view this variability ranges from within-tree variation (e.g. modeling wood properties) to billions of trees growing in millions of hectares (e.g. forest inventory). From a temporal point of view … Continue reading → [Read more...]

It’s midnight already. I’m going to bed after I type this. Now the fourth Euler problem: A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 99. Find … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In this series of three posts, we’ll look at colours in R graphics produced with ggplot2: what are the available choices of colour schemes, and how to choose a colour palette most suitable for a particular graphic? In kindergarten, choosing a co... [Read more...]

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In the last post, Classical Technical Patterns, I discussed the algorithm and pattern definitions presented in the Foundations of Technical Analysis by A. Lo, H. Mamaysky, J. Wang (2000) paper. Today, I want to check how different patterns performed historically using SPY. I will follow the rolling window procedure discussed on ... [Read more...]

Call me uncouth, but I like my TV loud, my beer cold and my optimization functions as simple as possible. Therefore, what I write in this blog post is very much from a layman’s perspective, and I am happy to be corrected on any fundamental errors. I have recently ... [Read more...]

Andrea Spanò, founder and partner at Quantide, held two seminars about Industrial Statistics at the University of Bergamo. Process Capability Analysis and Gage R&R were topics of seminars. Registered Milano R net users can download presentations from this page. [Read more...]

It took us a loooong while [for various and uninteresting reasons] but we finally ended up completing a paper on ABC using empirical likelihood (EL) that was started by me listening to Brunero Liseo’s tutorial in O’Bayes-2011 in Shanghai… Brunero mentioned empirical likelihood as a semi-parametric technique w/... [Read more...]

The third problem: The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ? My solvement is straightforward: firstly to identify all the prime numbers between 2 and sqrt(n); secondly … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I’m using the Twitter Listening Robot to know what people is talking Najib Razak, Malaysia Prime Minister. Apparently,  23-27 are the Malaysia Youth Day 2012.  There were many funny retweets (more than 50 times) by the public: RT @Faizrawrr: Be... [Read more...]

Robin Ryder pointed out to me this new experiment run by PLoS since March 2012, namely the introduction of a new article type, “called “Topic Pages” and written in the style of a Wikipedia article“. Not only this terrific idea gives more credence to Wikipedia biology pages, at least in their ... [Read more...]