DavidMSmith

367 Articles

Data Visualization Practices at the New York Times

Amanda Cox of the New York Times' graphics department recently gave a…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

The language of Statistics

R is the lingua franca of Statistics: R code and R packages…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

Hold on to your hats: it’s World Statistics Day!

Apparently today is the first ever World Statistics Day. I only knew…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

Impact of Google Instant on paid search

When Google introduced Google Instant (where search results are displayed as you…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

The Data Science Venn Diagram

Whenever I'm asked, "Who uses R?", I usually rattle off a long…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

R: a “Rock Star” for Business Intelligence

TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) recently published a comprehensive article about R…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

Visualizing the census

Now that the 2010 survey is over, you might be wondering what…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

Why Learn R? It’s the language of Statistics

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

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

The impact of the drug war in Mexico

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

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

Learning R

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

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 8 Min Read