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Building Diversified Portfolios with R

A common approach to reducing risk associated with financial portfolios is diversification.…

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Three Free Books on R for Statistics

Avril Coghlan, a lecturer at University College Cork in Ireland, has written and…

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Suggest Some R Tasks for High-Schoolers

Many high-schoolers are now using R in class, and to help even…

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Because It’s the Weekend: Data Mining Wine

A couple of weekends ago, I visited Palmaz Vineyards, a couple of…

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Webinar on Portfolio Rebalancing with R and Sybase

R users in the financial industry may be interested in the following…

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Mixed-Effects Models in R with Quantum Forest

For anyone who wants to estimate linear or nonlinear mixed-effects models (aka random-effects…

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NYT on Big Data and R

In the New York Times' "Bits" blog today, Quentin Hardy offers recollections…

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Because It’s the Weekend: Cube-Solving Lego Robot

The world record for a human solving a Rubik's cube is 5.66…

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ggplot2 for Big Data

(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs…

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The R-Files: Paul Teetor

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile…

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