New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

Last Saturday I met the guys from RStudio at the R in Finance conference in Chicago. I was curious to find out what RStudio could offer. I...

It is less than a week before the 2012 Olympic games will start in London. No surprise therefore that the papers are all over it, including ...

Today Diego and I will give our googleVis tutorial at useR!2013 in Albacete, Spain. googleVis Tutorial at useR! 2013 We will cover: I...

Over the past couple of days I played around with the data sets of the World Bank, and I have to admit that I am blown away by it. It is ama...

Iris versicolor   By Danielle Langlois License: CC-BY-SA R is a language , as Luis Apiolaza pointed out in his recent post . This is ab...

If connecting data to the real world is the next sexy job , then how do I do this? And how do I connect the real world to R? It can be don...

Tonight I will give a talk at the Cambridge R user group about googleVis . Following my good experience with knitr and RStudio to create...

I really should make it a habit of using data.table . The speed and simplicity of this R package are astonishing. Here is a simple exampl...

Waterfall charts are sometimes quite helpful to illustrate the various moving parts in financial data, in particular when I have positive a...

Fitting distribution with R is something I have to do once in a while, but where do I start? A good starting point to learn more about dis...