The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts…
A Prediction for the Olympic Men’s 100m Sprint
R user Markus Gesmann used the gold-winning times from the Olympic Men's 100m sprint since 1990 as the basis of the…
Applications of R at Google
At a talk I saw at the useR!2012 conference last month, Googler Karl Millar estimated that there are at least…
3 Hours of Pure Soccer Emotion, Visualized with R
The biggest prize in UK soccer, the Premier League Championship, is decided by a points system. Unlike most sports competitions,…
CIO.com: R is a Big Data open-source technology to watch
CIO.com recently published its list of 9 open-source technologies to watch. Hadoop is first on the list, and second up…
Birthday Probabilities: Heat Map vs. R
Last week, Joe Rickert used R and four years of US Census data to create an image plot of the…
Data Mining with R
Earlier this week, Revolution Analytics' Joe Rickert gave a webinar Introduction to R for Data Mining. You can watch the…
Where’s Waldo? Image Analysis in R
R user Arthur Charpentier attempts to use the raster library and R functions to find Waldo in a "Where's Waldo"…
Mariano Rivera’s Baseball Prowess, Illustrated with R
Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the Times creates data…
Yes, you need more than just R for Big Data Analytics.
Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, writes in Forbes about using the R language for data analysis:Most folks with…
