New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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...

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...

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

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 ...

Deploying applications via Docker container is the current talk of town. I have heard about Docker and played around with it a little, but ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...