In homage to International Talk Like a Pirate Day… I recently stumbled across a series of blog posts from the folks at IDV that visualised the archive of recorded pirate attacks which has been collected by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. It’s a dataset of 6000+ pirate attacks which have ... [Read more...]

I’ve been playing around with using gWidgets on Windows over the last few weeks as a way of creating front ends for various functions and set of functions that I’ve created, so that non R users can have the benefit of these without having to write a single ... [Read more...]

A recent post on the Junkcharts blog looked at US weather dataand the importance of explaining scales (which in this case went up to 118). Ultimately, it turns out that 118 is the rank of the data compared to the previous 117 years of data (in ascending order, so that 118 is the highest). ... [Read more...]