Publications by CloudStat

Say Hi to CloudStat!

30.12.2011

Hello and welcome to the CloudStat official blog! We’ll be using this space to talk about product updates, getting the most out of CloudStat, and random thoughts on data analysis learning, especially in R language. More about CloudStat can be viewed in our About page. Stayed tuned and have fun! Related To leave a comment for the author, p...

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Interview with Kai Chew, CloudStat

31.12.2011

Here is an interview with Kai Chew, Founder of Cloudstat. CloudStat is developing a cloud-based statistical platform to help researchers who want to make sense of data to do statistical analysis collaboratively with its high performance computing infrastructure. Describe the startup story for setting up CloudStat In 2010, Kai Chew, as an actuaria...

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Best One-Sentence Pitch for CloudStat (TechCrunch)

31.12.2011

Best One-Sentence Pitch for CloudStat (TechCrunch): Techcrunch.com is running a one sentence pitch competition for startup. So, I made one for CloudStat (using their format): My company, CloudStat is developing a cloud-based statistical platform to help students and researchers who want to make sense of data to do statistical analysis collaborat...

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CloudStat School – The Introduction

01.01.2012

CloudStat School is a not yet released open source project. The objective is to create an interactive R Learning Platform. The best way to learn R programming is doing while learning. In CloudStat School, you will see a console box at your top left hand side, while the lesson notes at your top right. Bottom is the output box. Anything you “Run�...

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Lesson 1: Overview of R Language & CloudStat School

02.01.2012

This is the first lesson of CloudStat School, Lesson 1: Overview of R Language & CloudStat School. The objective of this lesson is introducing R Language and how you can be a R programmer or a data analyst through CloudStat School. At the end of this lesson 1, you will learn: What and Why is R Language. How to run CloudStat Console. Use CloudStat...

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Lesson 2: Values & Variables (CloudStat School)

08.01.2012

This is the second lesson of CloudStat School, Lesson 2: Values & Variables. At the end of the lesson 2, you should know: 1. Inserting values into valuables 2. Calling valuables 3. Simple operation within variables. 2.1 Assign/Insert Values into Variables There are 2 symbols can be used: i) less than minus, abc ii) equal, =xyz = 321  By typi...

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Statistical Methods for the Chain Ladder Technique Demo (CloudStat)

10.01.2012

This demo will use a study case, how a general insurance company use CloudStat to estimate outstanding claims. Background Forecasting outstanding claims and setting up suitable reserves to meet these claims is an important part of the business of a general insurance company. Indeed, the published profits of these companies depend not only on the ...

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Scraping table from html web with CloudStat

12.01.2012

You need to use the data from internet, but don’t type, you can just extract or scrape them if you know the web URL. Thanks to XML package from R. It provides amazing readHTMLtable() function. For a study case, I want to scrape data: US Airline Customer Score. World Top Chess Players (Men). A. Scraping US Airline Customer Score table from http:...

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R twitteR Analysis: How HOT is the Lynas Rare Earths Mining Malaysia?

25.02.2012

Since Lynas Malaysia Corporation, Australia Rare Earth Refiner Granted Malaysia License, it is always a very hot topic. This can be proven through the daily tweets across recent 7 days. This chart was built by Tweets Keyword Trending Application @ http://www.cloudstat.org/index.php?do=/kaichew/blog/tweets-keyword-trending-application/ Result...

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People voice about Lynas Malaysia through Twitter Analysis with R CloudStat

28.02.2012

People voice about Lynas Malaysia through Twitter Analysis with R CloudStat: CloudStat Analysis: This is a twitter analysis report for “Lynas” from 21 till 28 February 2012, generated by CloudStat Twitter Application. Lynas was a hot topic, especially Malaysian. This was due to Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Lynas) will start importing rare earth...

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