Tag: r

Big Data Sets You Can Use with R

The world may indeed be awash with data, however, it is not…

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Visualizing Katrina’s Strongest Winds with R

Here's a new picture of the devastation wrought by Katrina in 2005.…

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Demand for R Jobs on the Rise, While SAS Jobs Decline

Job-tracking site indeed.com shows the rate at which certain terms appear in…

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What is R? A New Video on the History, Community and Applications of R [VIDEO]

We meet a lot of R users on our travels, and something…

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Forex Trading with R : Part 2

In the previous post the first steps were given for building the…

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Why Learn R? It’s the language of Statistics

In the Introduction to his book “R for SAS and SPSS Users”…

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The impact of the drug war in Mexico

For the last couple of years, Mexico has been in the midst…

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Learning R

When R is brought up as a possibility for doing statistics or…

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Tabled: Is R the Solution?

Sometimes, in this world of magical analytics and open source software, the…

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Because it’s Friday: The dating equation

According to internet lore, there's a mathematical equation that governs the lower…

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