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...

Sankey diagrams are great for visualising flows from one set of data values to another. Although named after Irish Captain Matthew Henry Phi...

The guys at RStudio have done a fantastic job with shiny . It is really easy to build web apps with R using shiny. With the help of Joe Ch...

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...

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

Many thanks to all who participated in the survey about writing R package vignettes . Following my post last Thursday the responses came i...

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...

Last week I was invited to give an introduction to googleVis at Lancaster University . This time I decided to use the R package slidify fo...

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