Earlier this year I came across a rather interesting page about optimisation in R from rwiki. The goal was to find the most efficient code to produce strings which follow the pattern below given a single integer input n: From this we can see that the general pattern for n ... [Read more...]

Emilio Torres Manzanera has just announced the 1st Data Analysis Contest Using R: “Nestoria (http://www.nestoria.com/) is a specialized web search engine platform in house prices. Nestoria and Lokku Labs aim to improve the understanding of the public of the value of its databases. The company aims to ... [Read more...]

About prize baring contests Competition with prizes are an amazing thing. If you are not sure of that, I urge you to listened to Peter Diamandis talk about his experience with the X prize (start listening at minute 11:40): At short – prizes can give up to 1 to 50 ratio of return on ... [Read more...]

$100 to the first person who can figure out how I created this plot and replicate it. Some hints: It was done in R. There is only one underlying probability distribution involved (one “rdist()“). Including the “plot” statement, I created this with 3 short lines of code. This is based on a ... [Read more...]