This month the Mango Movember team have done a fantastic job of growing the most impressive moustaches. All cash raised is for research and awareness of, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health problems. You can sponsor them using the following link: … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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By Jian Li – Consultant, Shanghai. Geographical data is becoming increasingly important in understanding how we can predict and influence our impact on the world. Data on the location of individuals (be they migrating animals, humans stuck in traffic, or … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Chris Campbell – Senior Consultant, UK. R is a classy language. Look: x [Read more...]

By Chris Campbell – Senior Consultant, UK. For many types of data, we have made a measurement of some variable that looks normally distributed. The middle value is the most likely, most values are similar to the middle value, and a … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Chris Campbell – Senior Consultant, UK. One of the most important objects in R are functions. Functions are a type of object that perform most of the actions we make in R. A quick refresher on objects. __ # We … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Chris Campbell – Senior Consultant, UK. As this was the first ever Manchester R the topics were designed for helping people make a start in R. We started off with a pre-session workshop; a brief introduction to R for absolute … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Jinjing Xie – Consultant, Shanghai. The challenge here is interesting but also very clear: for a given un-ordered vector of numbers, select from it a longest increasing (or decreasing) subsequence. This subsequence may not be unique. For example, in the … Continue reading → [Read more...]