Day: March 5, 2009

Package Update Roundup: Feb 2009

In this new monthly feature, we present a roundup of R packages…

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Improve R with Google’s Summer of Code

The Google Summer of Code is a global program, funded by Google,…

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Reminder: DSC 2009 abstract submissions due March 15

Peter Dalgaard reminds us that abstracts for DSC 2009 are due by…

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Copulas and Wall Street

Wired Magazine has an article this week on the credit crisis: Recipe…

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Detecting latent variables… in rock music

Here's a neat example of data analysis and visualization (sadly, not using…

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R, the FDA, and clinical trials

There's been an interesting discussion recently on the R Project group on…

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Five Attributes for the Data Quality Analyst

In my years working in data quality I have seen many skills…

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Craig’s Dissertation on People Search

Craig McDonald (now Dr. Craig McDonald!) just announced that his thesis, The…

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Twitter is Not a Search Engine

Now that Michael Arrington is back from his time off as a…

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The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps…

The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze…

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