New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

Last week we released version 0.1.5-4 of the ChainLadder package on CRAN. The R package provides methods which are typically used in insur...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

I love interactive pivot tables . That is the number one reason why I keep using spreadsheet software. The ability to look at data quickly ...

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...

Be motivated. R has a steep learning curve. Find a problem you can't solve otherwise. E.g. plotting multivariate data, a statistical ana...

A friend of mine told me the secret of making money at the stock market. "It's easy", he said. All I would have to do is to...