Publications by Joseph Rickert
Some R User Group Highlights for November 2014
by Joseph Rickert November was an active and creative month for R user groups with over 50 events listed on the Revolution Analytics' Community Calendar. Here are some highlights that can be found by visiting the websites of a few of the groups that post and share presentations. James Thomson was one of the presenters at the November 25th London...
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Quandl Chapter 2: The Democratization of Commercial Data
by Tammer KamelQuandl's Founder About 22 months ago I had the privilege of introducing Quandl to the world on this blog. At that time Quandl had about 2 million datasets and a few hundred users. (And we thought that was fabulous.) Now, at the end of 2014, we have some 12 million datasets on the site and tens of thousands of registered users. On m...
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New ASA Guidelines for Undergraduate Statistics Programs
by Joseph Rickert The American Statistical Association (ASA) Undergraduate Guidelines Workgroup recently published the report Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science. Although intended for educators setting up or revamping Stats programs at colleges and universities, this concise, 17 page document should be good r...
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Interactive 2D & 3D Plots with Plotly and ggplot2
by Matt Sundquistco-founder of Plotly R, Plotly, and ggplot2 let you make, share, and collaborate on beautiful, interactive plots online. Let's see what we can do with the topographic data from Auckland's Maunga Whau Volcano that comes with R. Copy and paste this R code to make your first plot. The basic idea is: use ggplot2 code, add py$ggplot...
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Revolution Analytics’ 2015 R User Group Support Program is underway!
by Joseph Rickert Revolution Analytics's 2015 R User Group Support Program (RevoRUGS) begins today. Last year we provided financial support to 51 groups worldwide. That works out to be about one third of the total number of R active user groups listed in our Local User Group Directory. R User Groups Supported by Revolution Analytics in 2014 (Dow...
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The 6th Spanish R Users Conference
by Emilio L. Cano The VI Spanish R Users Conference took place on October 23 and 24 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It was a two-day event with a variety of talks and workshops about the R statistical software and programming language and its applications. First of all, let me thank all the local organizers, the melisa[1] association and the...
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Video: H2O Talks by Trevor Hastie and John Chambers
by Joseph Rickert In a recent post, where I presented some R related highlights of November's H20 World conference, I singled out and described talks by Trevor Hastie and John Chambers and remarked that it would be nice if the videos would be made available. Well, thanks to the generosity of the folks at H2O I got my wish. Here is the video of ...
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Creating a custom soil attribute plot using ggmap
Cusby Ryan GarnerSenior Data Scientist, Revolution Analytics I love creating spatial data visualizations in R. With the ggmap package, I can easily download satellite imagery which serves as a base layer for the data I want to represent. In the code below, I show you how to visualize sampled soil attributes among 16 different rice fields in Urugu...
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What’s your KatRisk Score?
by Joseph Rickert KatRisk, a Berkeley based catastrophe modeling company specializing in wind and flood risk, has put three R and Shiny powered interactive demos on their website. Together these provide a nice introduction to the practical aspects of weather based risk modeling and give a good indication of the kinds of data that are important. T...
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Interactive R Notebooks on powerful cloud hardware
by Nick ElprinCo-Founder Domino Data Lab “R Notebooks” use the IPython Notebook UI to run R (rather than Python) in notebook cells, giving you an interactive R environment hosted on scalable servers, accessible through a web browser. This post describes how and why we built our “R Notebooks” feature. Our product, Domino, is a platform tha...
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