Several industries’ core business model is based on being on the opposite side of “bets” on chance events made by their customers. Here I explain how these industries profit from this.

The lazyeval package is a tool-set for performing nonstandard evaluation in R. Nonstandard evaluation refers to any situation where something special happens with how user input or code is evaluated. For example, the library function doesn’t evalua...

The mlr developer team is quite international: Germany, USA, Canada. The time difference between these countries sometimes makes it hard to communicate and develop new features. The idea for this workshop or sprint was to have the possibility to talk ...

In this post I'll clarify the incorporation of external inputs in the dynamic model specification using simecol, again reviewing the relevant parts of the simecol simulation model for the Battle of Iwo Jima that I presented in the last post. I will also give an alternate specification for this model ...

In 2001 the book by Stephen Hubbell on the neutral theory of biodiversity was a major shift from classical community ecology. Before this book the niche-assembly framework was dominating the study of community dynamics. Very briefly under this framework local species composition is the result of the resource available at a ...

One approach to trading which has been puzzling me lately, is to sit and wait for opportunities. ? Sounds simplistic, but it is indeed different than, for instance, the asset allocation strategies. In order to be able to even attempt taking advantage of these opportunities, however, we must be able to ...

Decided to have a go at plotting another interactive map, this time using fresh data involving room rentals in Singapore. I’ve gone about extracting the data in the same way as i normally do, the only difference being that i’ve … Continue reading →

Dear readers, The first version of the project Ajna was released ! ! ! ! Ajna is a web tool based on R Shiny and Bootstrap, intended to help in the process of Exploratory Data Analysis. So far there is no target audience (business users, data analysts, etc.). It was created in the spare ...

Annotating sets of genomic intervals with genomic annotations such as chromHMM Genomation is an R package to summarize, annotate and visualize genomic intervals. It contains a collection of tools for visualizing and analyzing genome-wide data sets, i.e. RNA-seq, bisulfite sequencing or chromatin-immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) data.Recently we ...