When is a zero not a zero?
Answer: when it's in floating point.No, this isn't my entry for the "least funny joke ever" competition. It's the answer…
Rich voters, poor voters, and the 2008 election
Andrew Gelman, guest-blogging at fivethirtyeight.com, uses survey data from before the 2008 US presidential election to ask the question: which…
R 2.9.0 scheduled for April 17
It was announced today that the next update to R, version 2.9.0, is scheduled for release on April 17, 2009.…
Package Update Roundup: Feb 2009
In this new monthly feature, we present a roundup of R packages that have been updated on CRAN in the…
Improve R with Google’s Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is a global program, funded by Google, that provides funding for students to write code…
Reminder: DSC 2009 abstract submissions due March 15
Peter Dalgaard reminds us that abstracts for DSC 2009 are due by March 15.
Copulas and Wall Street
Wired Magazine has an article this week on the credit crisis: Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street.…
Detecting latent variables… in rock music
Here's a neat example of data analysis and visualization (sadly, not using R) with an interesting application: detecting rock songs…
R, the FDA, and clinical trials
There's been an interesting discussion recently on the R Project group on LinkedIn (sub. req.) on the topic of using…
Five Attributes for the Data Quality Analyst
In my years working in data quality I have seen many skills and attributes of what a good data quality…