I've got a NetAtmo weather station. One can download the measurements from its web interface as a CSV file. I wanted to give time series analysis with the extraction of seasonal components ('decomposition') a try, so I thought it would be a good opport... [Read more...]

Want to change the font used in your R plots? I got a quite simple solution that works on Mac OS.You need the function 'quartzFonts'. With this function, you can define additional font families to use in your R base graphic plots. The default font fami... [Read more...]

Want to change the font used in your R plots? I got a quite simple solution that works on Mac OS.You need the function 'quartzFonts'. With this function, you can define additional font families to use in your R base graphic plots. The default font families are 'sans', 'serif' ... [Read more...]

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A few days ago, I collected 30 minutes of tweets all around the world. I used the twitteR and streamR packages for this. The nice thing about those tweets is that they have geo-information associated with them. Not all of them, of course, but more than... [Read more...]

Many GPS devices and apps have the capability to track your current position via GPS. If you go walking, running, cycling, flying or driving, you can take a look at your exact route and your average speed.Some of these devices or apps also allow you to... [Read more...]

This is something I did a while ago using the Berlin Affective Word List (BAWL).The BAWL contains ratings for 2902 German words (2107 nouns, 504 verbs, 291 adjectives). Ratings were collected for emotional valence (bad vs. good), arousal (the grade of valence) and imaginability (how well you can imagine the specific word). Please ... [Read more...]

So, the FIFA World Cup is over. Germany won. Yay!Now with so much less football matches to watch, I tried the awesome new R package rCharts by Ramnath Vaidyanathan. In this case, I used the capability to generate NVD3 charts. Check it out...You ca... [Read more...]

Alright, let's test some parallelization functionalities in R.The machine:MacBook Air (mid-2013) with 8 GB of RAM and the i7 CPU (Intel i7 Haswell 4650U). This CPU is hyper-threaded, meaning (at least that's my understanding of it) that it has two... [Read more...]

I recently encountered some functionality in R which most of you might already know. Nevertheless, I want to share it here, because it might come in handy for those of you who do not know this yet.Suppose you want to read in a large number of very large text ... [Read more...]

The biggest German railway company, the 'Deutsche Bahn', is subject of frequent emotional discussions about being late all the time. A big German newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung built the so-called 'train monitor' (Zugmonitor). The data is (or was) made available in cooperation with OpenDataCity: http://www.opendatacity.de/zugmonitor-api/... [Read more...]

The biggest German railway company, the 'Deutsche Bahn', is subject of frequent emotional discussions about being late all the time. A big German newspaper, the Süddeutsche Zeitung built the so-called 'train monitor' (Zugmonitor). The data is (or was) made available in cooperation with OpenDataCity: http://www.opendatacity.de/zugmonitor-api/... [Read more...]

As if the R world needed another example of Twitter visualizations, right? Well, here we go anyway.At the beginning of 2013, Pablo Barberá released the first version of his R package 'streamR' (CRAN link). With this package, you can tap into the streaming capabilities of the Twitter API. I did ... [Read more...]

I used knitr to hack together a very short tutorial about XML in R.It's in German. And it's not very long. But, hey, it's free :)I hope it can be of help to someone who wants to get started with XML processing in R.Please feel free to post ... [Read more...]

Which function rbinds dataframes together fastest?First competitor: classic rbind in a for loop over a list of dataframesSecond competitor: do.call("rbind", )Third competitor: rbind.fill() f... [Read more...]

I already introduced some stuff I did with the last.fm API. But did you ever wonder if your taste of music changes over the year? Sunny music in the sunny months and dark music in darker months? Well, I did. And I want to check it out with the ... [Read more...]

I want to share a function I wrote for my dissertation. The function is useful for putting up to two R tables into one TeX table.You have to load the package 'languageR' to have the dataset 'dative' available.Let's suppose you have two tables, one with... [Read more...]

last.fm is an internet radio and music suggestion service. Registered users can also use last.fm to 'scrobble' tracks they've been listening to. last.fm then keeps track of a user's statistics in terms of top artists, albums and tracks.Luckily, last.fm... [Read more...]

Let's get back to the age-value relationship from my last post. I did some more plotting to see on which position this inversed U-shaped relationship is strongest. Please note, that I use a dataframe called eu.players throughout this post, which holds downloaded football player information from transfermarkt.de.But ... [Read more...]

It's been some time since my last post on football. And we're talking about european soccer here.So I finally managed to write some functions which allow me to extract player stats from www.transfermarkt.de. The site tracks lots of stats in the world of soccer. For each player, ... [Read more...]