Publications by Markus Gesmann
Binomial testing with buttered toast
Rasmus’ post of last week on binomial testing made me think about p-values and testing again. In my head I was tossing coins, thinking about gender diversity and toast. The toast and tossing a buttered toast in particular was the most helpful thought experiment, as I didn’t have a fixed opinion on the probabilities for a toast to land on eith...
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Does sexual activity change with age?
Recently the Guardian’s Data Blog reported about the results from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in the UK. One of the questions asked in the survey was if the participants had sex in the last four weeks. The results – a summary is available in this info graphic – show that the British have their m...
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Registration for the 2014 ‘R in Insurance’ conference has opened
The registration for the second conference on R in Insurance on Monday 14 July 2014 at Cass Business School in London has opened. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered may include actuarial statistics, capital modelling,...
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Adding labels within lattice panels by group
The other day I had data that showed the development of many products over time. I grouped the products into categories and visualised the data as line graphs in lattice. But instead of adding an extensive legend to the plot I wanted to add labels to each line's latest point. How do you do that? It turns out that panel.groups is there...
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R in Insurance 2014 Conference Poster
Here is the poster for the 2nd R in Insurance conference on Monday 14 July 2014 at Cass Business School in London:R in Insurance 2014 conference poster. Download PDF versionImportant dead lines to keep in mind:Abstract submissions: 28 March 2014Early bird booking: 30 May 2014R in Insurance Conference: 14 July 2014For all further inform...
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Next Kölner R User Meeting: 26 February 2014
The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, 26 February 2014. We are delighted to welcome:Diego de Castillo: R and databasesKim Kuen Tang: Hands on using R and kdb+ togetherFrank Celler: ArangoDB (Lightning Talk)Further details and the agenda are available on our KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would ...
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Review: Kölner R Meeting 26 Feburary 2014
Last week’s Cologne R user group meeting was all about R and databases. We had three talks from a generic overview on how to connect R to databases, to a specific example with kdb+ and perhaps the future with ArangoDB, a NoSQL database.Connecting R with databasesDiego de Castillo’s talk focused on the use of relational databases, ...
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googleVis code development moved to GitHub
After nearly 4 years of developing googleVis on Google Code with SVN we decided to move to GitHub. The main reason was that Google stopped the facility of hosting pre-CRAN builds of the package for user testing. The devtools package on the other hand makes it really easy to install packages from source hosted on GitHub. Additionally, ...
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Timeline charts with googleVis
Last year at the Google I/O conference Mitchell Foley presented new developments of the Google Chart Tools API and one of the new features he mentioned were timeline charts (about 6 min into the talk). Timeline charts are a great way of visualising different dates/events over time and are now also supported by googleVis from version ...
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Reminder: Abstract submission for the 2014 ‘R in Insurance’ conference will close this Friday
Don’t forget, this is the final week you can submit an abstract for the second R in Insurance conference. For more details see http://www.rininsurance.com and perhaps for inspiration review last year’s programme. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: mages' blog. R-blogge...
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