New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Waterfall charts are sometimes quite helpful to illustrate the various moving parts in financial data, in particular when I have positive a...

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...