New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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...

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

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

Since Christmas I have been playing around with a Raspberry Pi. It is certainly not the fastest computer, but what a great little toy! Here ...

My little series of posts about the new googleVis charts continues with calendar charts. Google's calendar charts are still in beta,...

Last year at the Google I/O conference Mitchell Foley presented new developments of the Google Chart Tools API and one of the new features...

How do you apply one particular row of your data to all other rows? Today I came across a data set which showed the revenue split by produc...

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

The data of the World Bank is absolutely amazing. I had said this before , but their updated iPhone App gives me a reason to return to this ...