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...

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...

One of the great research papers of the 20th century celebrates its 60th anniversary in a few weeks time: A quantitative description of mem...

The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for 5 October 2012. All details and the agenda are available on the KölnRUG Meetup site ....

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 ...

Every year the UK’s general insurance actuarial community organises a big conference, which they call GIRO , short for General Insurance Res...

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...

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

A friend of mine asked me the other day how she could use the function optim in R to fit data. Of course there are built-in functions for f...