Publications by David Smith
ComputerWorld on R for data analysis and visualization
ComputerWorld's feature today, 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis, suggests open-source R as the third entry on the list: What it does: R is a general statistical analysis platform (the authors call it an “environment”) that runs on the command line. Need to find means, medians, standard deviations, correlations? R can handle ...
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New R User Group in Gießen, Germany
It's great to see new local R user groups popping up around the world, and the latest one is based in Gießen, Germany (about 70km north of Frankfurt). The Giessen R Users Group has its first meeting on May 10 with a discussion on applications of R to social media (with an example related to Twitter). meetup.com: Giessen R Users Group Related...
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How to load your iPhone location data into R
Earlier this week, data scientists Pete Warden and Alasdair Allen reported that iPhones and cell-enabled iPads keep an internal log of the devices location, which is accessible from the backup that iTunes creates when you sync the device. (Update Apr 27: Apple responds that the locations are those of nearby cell towers and wi-fi hotspots, not the...
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Milktrader: Quantitative finance in R
The blog Milktrader has been on a roll recently with a series of posts with practical examples of quantitative in finance, from backtesting to automated trading, and option pricing to data acquisition. The latest post focuses on calculating returns, with an example of downloading data for a silver ETF and calculating daily returns with the dailyR...
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Revolution R Enterprise 4.3 now available
We've just released the latest update to Revolution R Enterprise, version 4.3. This release includes version 2.12.2 of the open-source R engine linked with high-performance libraries, and packages it with additional functionality from Revolution Analytics for big data statistics, web services deployment, a Windows UI for R programming and debuggi...
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How to make 3-D graphics from SAS data
The blog SAS Analysis shows how to create 3-D images from SAS data … using R: Some SAS programmers like to use SAS/IML to call R’s functions [Ref. 2]. However, it seems that SAS/IML fails to work with the latest versions of R since 2.12 [Ref. 3]. Others tend to play tricks to call R into SAS’s data step to meet their daily needs [Ref. 4]. I...
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Can you do better than cap-weighted equity benchmarks?
We're on our way to Chicago for the annual conference for R users in Finance, R/Finance 2011. Revolution Analytics is proud to once again sponsor this conference, and during the sponsor lunch session at noon on Saturday, we're honoured to have Guy Yollin show how the big-data capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise can be used for quantitative f...
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Gartner: Revolution Analytics a "Cool Vendor" for BI
Leading analyst firm Gartner has just published its “Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence” report for 2011 (download it here if you have a Gartner subscription). In the report, Revolution Analytics is named a Gartner Cool Vendor, and recognizes the company as “innovative, impactful and intriguing”: Driven in part by the r...
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Review of the R Cookbook
While we were at R/Finance in Chicago over the weekend (more on that later), it was a great pleasure to meet in person Paul Teetor, author of the R Cookbook (published by O'Reilly). If you haven't picked it up yet, I recommend checking it out: if you already have a basic familiarity of the R syntax, but want to expand your skills, this is an exce...
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How to learn R
Over at R community site inside-R.org, Revolution's Joseph Rickert has published a How-To guide with tips for new users on How to Learn R, with links to resources for R books, blogs and courses. Check it out at the link below. Inside-R: How to Learn R Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog:...
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