New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

Is there a life outside the office? Photo: Markus Gesmann It is not unusual that you will not have admin rights in an IT controlled offic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Transforming data sets with R is usually the starting point of my data analysis work. Here is a scenario which comes up from time to time: t...

I had mentioned the Guardian's data blog and the need for more data journalism earlier here . What I really like about the Guardian'...

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 ...

At the R in Insurance conference Arthur Charpentier gave a great keynote talk on Bayesian modelling in R . Bayes' theorem on condition...