Is it meaningful to talk about a probability of “65.7%” that Obama will win...
(This article was first published on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) The other day we had a fun little discussion in the comments...
View ArticleTwo Talks on Data Science, Big Data and R
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar on the topic of Big Data, Data Science and R....
View Article"Advanced R" Course – November 15-16, 2012
(This article was first published on Milano R net, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) This is the last post about the course. As places are limited, please register as soon as possible! Milano R...
View ArticleUpcoming R training by Hadley Wickham: SF Dec 3-4, DC Dec 10-11
(By Hadley Wickham) Hi all, I’d like to let you know about four R training courses that RStudio will be offering in December: * Effective data visualization (http://bit.ly/TY2ONI) Dec 3. San Francisco,...
View ArticleThe New Madrid Fault – Past, Present and Future
(This article was first published on Graph of the Week, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) New Madrid, Territory of Missouri, March 22, 1816 Dear Sir, In compliance with your request, I will now...
View ArticleWebinar Thursday: How R is used to optimize tractor production at John Deere
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I just sat in on the rehearsal for Thursday's webinar by John Deere's Derek Hoffman, Order Fulfillment...
View ArticleWebinar Tomorrow: Big Data Trees and Hadoop Connection in Revolution R...
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Tomorrow at 9AM Pacific, Revolution Analytics VP of Product Development Sue Ranney will introduce two key Big...
View ArticleUpcoming events
(This article was first published on Portfolio Probe » R language, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) New Events Thalesians (London) 2012 November 21: Isabel Ehrlich on “Basket Options with...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: Real-time, big-data analytics
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) A quick heads-up that I'll be presenting another brand-new webinar on Thursday next week (November 29). In...
View ArticleHow a Mexican state ended up with more drug war homicides than total homicides
(This article was first published on Diego Valle's Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) During 2007 and 2008 the Mexican state of Sinaloa had more drug war-related homicides than total...
View ArticleSAP CodeJam Montreal
(This article was first published on Blag's bag of rants, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Thanks to an initiative of Krista Elkin, Jonathan Druker and myself ( with a lot of support from Craig...
View ArticleA simple web application using Rook
(This article was first published on Anything but R-bitrary, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) body, td { font-family: sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12px; margin: 8px; } tt,...
View ArticleSpeeding up R computations Pt III: parallelization
(This article was first published on Looking at data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In two previous posts, I have written about how you can speed up your R computations either by using strange...
View ArticleFactor Analysis of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Voters
(This article was first published on Statistically Significant, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Factor Analysis of Baseball's Hall of Fame Voters body, td { font-family: sans-serif;...
View ArticleWebinar Jan 24: Using R with Hadoop
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In two weeks (on January 24), Think Big Analytics' Jeffrey Breen will present a new webinar on using R with...
View ArticleNew R User Group – Manchester R
Mango Solutions announce the inaugural meeting of a new R user group in Manchester, UK. Date: 7th Feb 2013 Venue: Odder Bar, Manchester (14 Oxford Road, M1 5QA)...
View Article(not provided): Using R and the Google Analytics API
(This article was first published on randyzwitch.com » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) (not provided) terms from Google average 35%-60% of all Google organic search terms For power users of...
View Articleanalyze the health and retirement study (hrs) with r
(This article was first published on asdfree by anthony damico, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) the hrs is the one and only longitudinal survey of american seniors. with a panel starting its...
View ArticleTwo free online courses starting soon: Data Analysis (with R) and Social...
(This article was first published on blog.RDataMining.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) There are two online courses starting soon on Coursera, which are free to register. 1. Data Analysis...
View ArticleUsing Rcpp to access the C API of xts
(This article was first published on Rcpp Gallery, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Jeff Ryan’s xts package is an immensely powerful tool that is widely used for timeseries work with R. Recently,...
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