Posts Tagged ‘ R ’
Today, Google announced two new services that are sure to be loved by data geeks. First is their BigQuery which lets you analyze “Terabytes of data, trillions of records.” This is great for people with large datasets. I wonder if a program like R(my favorite statistical analysis package) can read it? If so would R just pull [ READ MORE ]
Thanks to Drew Conway for posting this video of me dicussing my thesis (pdf) on NYC pizza. It was part of the New York R User Meetup on Applications of R. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a [ READ MORE ]
Drew Conway has a piece on his Zero Intelligence Agents blog about how well informed Tea Party protesters are about tax policy. His analysis is pretty technical and he even offers up the R code he used to analyze the data and build the graphs which were made with a package called ggplot2 by Hadley [ READ MORE ]
I don’t mean to shamelessly self-promote here, but I wanted to note that the Slice story on my pizza paper (pdf) has also been picked up by NBC New York’s food blog, Feast, and by Revolution Computing’s blog. For people who don’t know, Revolution Computing optimizes R, the language used by a large number of statisticians for [ READ MORE ]