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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Deploying applications via Docker container is the current talk of town. I have heard about Docker and played around with it a little, but ...

The World Cup has finally kicked off last Thursday and I have seen some fantastic games already. Perhaps the Netherlands appears to be the ...

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...