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Course Materials for Statistics (The Easier Way) With R
By Nicole Radziwill Are you an instructor with a Spring 2016 intro to statistics course coming up… and yet you haven’t started preparing? If so, I have a potential solution for you to consider. The...
View ArticleAnalyzing movie connections with R
By David Smith One of the themes of the Christmas movie classic Love Actually is the interconnections between people of different communities and cultures, from the Prime Minister of the UK to a young...
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Create your own hexamaps
By Mikkel Hexamaps are gaining in popularity. Most notably has been the versions, where the map of the USA has been made into a hexamap. But people have also made maps of Europe using hexagons. The...
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The guide
By Gianluca Baio Before and over the Christmas break, Christina and I have done some more work on our bmeta package, which I’ve already mentioned in another post, here $-$ well, to be fair, Christina...
View ArticleTraining for the big data era: eoda publishes R Academy programme for 2016
By eoda GmbH The data analysis specialist eoda presents the programme of the R Academy for 2016. The R Academy is the comprehensive training concept for the open-source programming language R. It...
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Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with the ahp Package
By Nicole Radziwill On my December to-do list, I had “write an R package to make analytic hierarchy process (AHP) easier” — but fortunately gluc beat me to it, and saved me tons of time that I spent...
View Articlesubset vs array indexing: which will cause the least grief in R?
By Derek Jones The comments on my post outlining recommended R usage for professional developers were universally scornful, with my proposal recommending subset receiving the greatest wrath. The main...
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Regression with Splines: Should we care about Non-Significant Components?
By arthur charpentier Following the course of this morning, I got a very interesting question from a student of mine. The question was about having non-significant components in a splineregression....
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By David Smith One of the themes of the Christmas movie classic Love Actually is the interconnections between people of different communities and cultures, from the Prime Minister of the UK to a young...
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Faster Admin 1 Maps in Choroplethr
By Ari Lamstein A new version of ChoroplethrAdmin1 is now on CRAN, and it dramatically speeds up making Administrative Level 1 maps in choroplethr. “Administrative Level 1” is just a generic term for...
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R in Insurance: Registration and abstract submission opened
By Markus Gesmann (This article was originally published at mages’ blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Following the successful 3rd R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam last year, we return to...
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Genre-based Music Recommendations Using Open Data (and the problem with...
By tony.fischetti@gmail.com After a long 12 months of pouring my soul into it, my book, Data Analysis with R, was finally published. After the requisite 2-4 day breather, I started thinking about how I...
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Genre-based Music Recommendations Using Open Data (and the problem with...
By tony.fischetti@gmail.com (This article was originally published at On the lambda, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) After a long 12 months of pouring my soul into it, my book, Data Analysis with R, was...
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Calculate the odd of winning Powerball in R
By Xianjun Dong This Wednesday’s Powerball grand prize already climbed up to $1.5 BILLION. If you choose to cash out, it would be $930 million. And it keeps increasing…So, what’s the odd of winning the...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Server available free to students with DreamSpark
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Over the last 6 years, thousands of students and faculty have downloaded Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) from Revolution Analytics for free, making it possible for...
View ArticleRevolution R renamed Microsoft R, available free to developers and students
By David Smith In the nine months since Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics, there have been a steady stream of updates to Revolution R Open and Revolution R Enterprise (not to mention integration...
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Observing a Mango Public R Training Course
By Mango Blogger by Paulin Shek As a new Mango Consultant, I had my first experience of a Mango training course a few weeks ago. I observed Aimée Gott @aimeegott_R teach a 2-day public training course...
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R in Insurance: Registration and abstract submission opened
By Markus Gesmann Following the successful 3rd R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam last year, we return to London this year. The registration for the 4th conference on R in Insurance on Monday 11...
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MCMskv #5 [future with a view]
By xi’an As I am flying back to Paris (with an afternoon committee meeting in München in-between), I am reminiscing on the superlative scientific quality of this MCMski meeting, on the novel directions...
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Avoid overlapping labels in ggplot2 charts
By David Smith If you’ve ever created a scatterplot with text labels using the text function in R, or the geom_text function in the ggplot2 package, you’ve probably found that the text labels can...
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