user2011

R in the insurance industry

September 16, 2011 | mages

Let's talk about R in the insurance industry today.  David Smith's blog entry reminded me about our poster at the R user conference in Warwick in August 2011:Using R in InsuranceWe presented examples on how R can be used in the insu...
[Read more...]

Nomograms everywhere!

August 30, 2011 | richierocks

At useR!, Jonty Rougier talked about nomograms, a once popular visualisation that has fallen by the wayside with the rise of computers. I’d seen a few before, but hadn’t understood how they worked or why you’d want to use them. Anyway, since that talk I’ve been ... [Read more...]

Things I learned at useR!2011

August 25, 2011 | Pat

The title says “things” but conferences are mainly about people. Some of it can be serendipitous.  For example, one day I sat next to Jonathan Rougier at lunch because I had a question for him about climate models.  When Jonathan left, I started a conversation with the person on my ... [Read more...]

Random input software testing

August 23, 2011 | Pat

The usual approach to testing software is to create a specific problem and see if the software gets the correct answer.  Although this is very useful, there are problems with it: It is labor-intensive It almost totally neglects to test the code that throws errors There can be unconscious bias ...
[Read more...]

A view of useR!2011

August 22, 2011 | Pat

Start Brian Ripley The conference was opened with a talk by Brian Ripley.  I’ll distort his talk into 3 points that came across to me. 1. R Core is finite The time available from R Core members is a strictly limited good.  The more that is pushed onto R Core, the ...
[Read more...]

useR2011 highlights

August 18, 2011 | richierocks

useR has been exhilarating and exhausting. Now it’s finished, I wanted to share my highlights. 10. My inner twelve year old schoolgirl swooning and fainting with excitement every time I chatted with a member of R-core. 9. Patrick Burns declaring that his company consists of himself and his two cats. And ... [Read more...]

useR2011 Easy interactive ggplots talk

August 17, 2011 | richierocks

I’m talking tomorrow at useR! on making ggplots interactive with the gWidgets GUI framework. For those of you at useR, here is the code and data, so you can play along on your laptops. For everyone else, I’ll make the slides available in the next few days so ... [Read more...]

Copyright © 2022 | MH Corporate basic by MH Themes

Never miss an update!
Subscribe to R-bloggers to receive
e-mails with the latest R posts.
(You will not see this message again.)

Click here to close (This popup will not appear again)