DavidMSmith

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Interactive stock visualizations with R

Jeroen Ooms, who recently completed his Masters in Statistics at Utrech University,…

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Seven reasons to use R

Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones is asked a simple question by his…

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How pie charts fail

The Wikipedia page for Pie Charts now has a nice section illustrating…

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Why XML is incompatible with big data

Mike Driscoll lays out his misadventures using XML for managing large amounts…

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Because it’s Friday: United States of Obesity

Reader BR pointed me to a, er, unique representation of the proportion…

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R Examples for Actuaries

Sometimes I think "Web Archaeology" ought to be a recognized discipline. There…

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R 2.9.2 scheduled for August 24

Following the usual six-monthly release cycle, the next update to R is…

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Google’s coding standards for R

For any software application in production and produced by a development team,…

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Terabytes of trees

I saw a very interesting talk at hosted by the SF Bay…

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One word from the NYT: Statistics

The New York Times has an article today about the emergence of…

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