New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

A friend of mine told me the secret of making money at the stock market. "It's easy", he said. All I would have to do is to...

The 100m mean's sprint finals of the 2012 London Olympics are over and Usain Bolt won the gold medal again with a winning time of 9.63s....

Setting axis options in googleVis charts can be a bit tricky. Here I present two examples where I set several options to customise the layo...