Using R in Astronomy
Alastair Sanderson of the University of Birmingham has a fantastic set of pages for astronomers using R. For astronomers thinking…
Package Update Roundup: Feb 2009
In this new monthly feature, we present a roundup of R packages that have been updated on CRAN in the…
R 2.9.0 scheduled for April 17
It was announced today that the next update to R, version 2.9.0, is scheduled for release on April 17, 2009.…
Improve R with Google’s Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is a global program, funded by Google, that provides funding for students to write code…
Rich voters, poor voters, and the 2008 election
Andrew Gelman, guest-blogging at fivethirtyeight.com, uses survey data from before the 2008 US presidential election to ask the question: which…
Detecting latent variables… in rock music
Here's a neat example of data analysis and visualization (sadly, not using R) with an interesting application: detecting rock songs…
R, the FDA, and clinical trials
There's been an interesting discussion recently on the R Project group on LinkedIn (sub. req.) on the topic of using…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or…
Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with…
Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with data on the Web. By connecting random information on the…
Our technology collects content from thousands of high-quality…
Our technology collects content from thousands of high-quality online sources, deeply analyzes and parses it, and creates a trove of…