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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...