Speed up backtesting with parallel computing
The video from last month's high-performance backtesting webinar is now available for…
Gapminder: Animating the World’s Data
Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from…
REvolution Computing training series announced
We've seen so much demand for the previously-announced training courses in April and…
Package Update Roundup: Mar 2009
This is a list of significant new or updated packages that were…
SAS formally announces integration with R in SAS/IML Studio
The forthcoming integration between SAS/IML Studio, which had previously been reported in…
Visualizing correlation matrices
Looking at the components of a correlation matrix can be an important…
How to make a progress bar in R
If you're writing a function that you expect to take a long…
Physicists, models, and the credit crisis
The New York Times had an article last week on the cadre…
Build your own slide rule with R
If you're a retro-geek like me with fond memories of slide rules…
Interview: Jon Peck SPSS
I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping…