New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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 ...

After my posts on timeline , Sankey and calendar charts, this will be the last to introduce new chart types of the developer version of go...

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...

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...

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...

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

I really like gists as a quick way to include more lengthly code snippets into my blog posts. However, I am not a git user as such, and so ...

Today I feel very lucky, as I have been invited to the Royal Statistical Society conference to give a tutorial on interactive web graphs wi...

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...

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...