Tag: r

Speed up backtesting with parallel computing

The video from last month's high-performance backtesting webinar is now available for…

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Gapminder: Animating the World’s Data

Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from…

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REvolution Computing training series announced

We've seen so much demand for the previously-announced training courses in April and…

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Package Update Roundup: Mar 2009

This is a list of significant new or updated packages that were…

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SAS formally announces integration with R in SAS/IML Studio

The forthcoming integration between SAS/IML Studio, which had previously been reported in…

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Visualizing correlation matrices

Looking at the components of a correlation matrix can be an important…

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How to make a progress bar in R

If you're writing a function that you expect to take a long…

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Physicists, models, and the credit crisis

The New York Times had an article last week on the cadre…

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Build your own slide rule with R

If you're a retro-geek like me with fond memories of slide rules…

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Interview: Jon Peck SPSS

I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping…

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