New Data Scientist role at Lloyd's

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...

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...

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...

Many thanks to all who participated in the survey about writing R package vignettes . Following my post last Thursday the responses came i...

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

My little series of posts about the new googleVis charts continues with calendar charts. Google's calendar charts are still in beta,...

Last year at the Google I/O conference Mitchell Foley presented new developments of the Google Chart Tools API and one of the new features...

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

Our 5th Cologne R user group meeting was the best attended meeting so far, with 20 members finding their way to the Institute of Sociology f...

How do you apply one particular row of your data to all other rows? Today I came across a data set which showed the revenue split by produc...