Folks at WSJ were funny. They gave another medal list of London 2012 Olympic Games, not for the first place but for the last place. They replaced Gold, Silver and Bronze with  Lead, Tin and Zinc. No matter who came up to this idea, it’s … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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If you live in the US, you've probably visited a Williams Sonoma store for gourmet food or quality cookware for the kitchen. And if you've shopped at Pottery Barn or West Elm stores for furniture, those chains are part of the Williams Sonoma stable as well. All three brands have ... [Read more...]

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We're excited to announce the latest outpost of the Revolution Analytics team, with the opening of a new office in Singapore! This office will serve as the local HQ for Revolution Analytics serving our customers in the Asia-Pacific region. It was opened with the support of the support of the ... [Read more...]

Why trust some supposed laws of statistical sampling and convergence when you can just test them yourself? If you have a computer with R installed (also recommended: Rstudio) then you can stop dithering about whether these n=1000 studies cited in the n... [Read more...]

The 18th Euler problem is sorta a route finding problem. It has occupied my mind for two days. Finally I came up to a clever solution. Find the maximum total from top to bottom of the triangle below: 75 95 64 17 … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Biostatistician and R user Matt Cooper noticed recently that the price he pays for petrol (gasoline) at the pump in Perth, Australia was about the same as he was paying four years ago. Nonetheless, inflation has marched on over the years, so does that mean petrol is effectively cheaper now ... [Read more...]

Some of my colleagues didn't know that you can use mathematical constants that are part of "cmath". Here is the small snippet that shows how to use PI from cmath library. Be aware that you need to write "#define _USE_MATH_DEFINES" before you include cm... [Read more...]

The 2012 Olympic Games officially ended this Sunday in London. Although I missed most of the games, I was still entertaining myself with some hilarious news, such as Thomas’s re-diving. So much fun. I would remember this for years :) Games ended. … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Today I want to highlight a whitepaper about Adaptive Asset Allocation by Butler, Philbrick and Gordillo and the discussion by David Varadi on the robustness of parameters of the Adaptive Asset Allocation algorithm. In this post I will follow the steps of the Adaptive Asset Allocation paper, and in the ... [Read more...]

I was inspired by Kay Cichini  recent post on creating a a tcl/tk dialog box for users to enter variable values. I am going to have a use for this very soon so took some time to make it a bit more generic. What I wanted is a function ... [Read more...]

We have three new local R user groups to announce this month. The Alamo City R Users Group in San Antonio becomes the fifth R user group in Texas. The group's just getting started, and volunteers are always welcome. Although not a dedicated R group, the Milwaukee Chapter of the ... [Read more...]

The next version of the googleVis package has been released on the project site and CRAN. This version provides updates to the package vignette and a new example for the gvisMerge function. The new sections of the vignette have been featured on this ... [Read more...]

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In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The Environmental Performance Index website uses R to rank countries by measures like environmental health and ecosystem vitality. A log-linear regression in R predicted the gold-winning Olympic 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds (... [Read more...]

Editor’s Note: This post written by Roger Peng and Jeff Leek.  A couple of weeks ago, we announced that we would be teaching free courses in Computing for Data Analysis and Data Analysis on the Coursera platform. At the same time, a number of ot... [Read more...]

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