New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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

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...

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...

Tonight I will give a talk at the Cambridge R user group about googleVis . Following my good experience with knitr and RStudio to create...

For most purposes PDF or other vector graphic formats such as windows metafile and SVG work just fine. However, if I plot lots of points, sa...

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...

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...

If connecting data to the real world is the next sexy job , then how do I do this? And how do I connect the real world to R? It can be don...

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 ...

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...