New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

Following on from last week's post , here are my slides on using googleVis on shiny from the Advanced R workshop at Lancaster Univers...

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 noticed that the monthly number of posts on R-bloggers stopped increasing over the last year. Indeed, the last couple of months saw a dec...

My 12" iBook G4 is celebrating its 8th birthday today! Time for a little present. How about R 2.14.0? The iBook is still in daily us...

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 ...

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...

Using R with LaTeX via Sweave is a great way to create reproducible output. However, using specific fonts, e.g. your corporate fonts, can be...

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

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...

Let's talk about R in the insurance industry today.  David Smith's  blog  entry reminded me about our poster at the R user conferen...