Publications by Tal Galili
Data Mining in R online course taught by Luis Torgo at statistics.com
An interested PR piece I got from Janet Dobbins: ————— Luis Torgo is teaching an online course, “Data Mining in R: Learning with Case Studies” at statistics.com. The course starts June 17 – July 15. Brief Description: The main goal of this course is to teach users how to perform data mining tasks using R. Instr...
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“Financial Risk Forecasting” – a book review by Christian Reusch
A guest post by Christian Reusch giving a book review for the book “Financial Risk Forecasting” by Jon Danielsson. ———– As an academic-turned hedge fund professional with a particular interest in financial econometrics and quantitative money management, this book written by one of my former lecturers at the London Schoo...
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Engineering Data Analysis (with R and ggplot2) – a Google Tech Talk given by Hadley Wickham
It appears that just days ago, Google Tech Talk released a new, one hour long, video of a presentation (from June 6, 2011) made by one of R’s community more influential contributors, Hadley Wickham. This seems to be one of the better talks to send a programmer friend who is interested in getting into R. Talk abstract Data analysis, the process ...
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Calling R lovers and bloggers – to work together on “The R Programming wikibook”
This post is a call for both R community members and R-bloggers, to come and help make The R Programming wikibook be amazing. The R Programming wikibook is not just another one of the many free books about statistics/R, it is a community project which aims to create a cross-disciplinary practical guide to the R programming language. Here is...
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Job offer: R-Square is looking for an R Statistician
This is a guest post by Kyle Stokley. ————— My name is Kyle and I am an IT recruiter for R-Square. I currently have an opening in Durham NC with a fortune 100 company based out of NJ for a Statistician with R-Programming Experience. Job Title: Statistician Qualifications: MS or PhD in statistics with 0-10 years wor...
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The R Journal Vol. 3/1 went online
Dear All, The first issue of the third volume of The R Journal is now available at http://journal.r-project.org/current.html. Below are direct links to (most of) the articles: Volume 3/1, June 2011 Download complete issue Refereed articles may be downloaded individually using the links below. [Bibliography of refereed articles]...
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The stringr package just turned 0.5
(Re-posted from a post made by Hadley Wickham to the [R-pkgs] mailing list) # About the stringr package Strings are not glamorous, high-profile components of R, but they do play a big role in many data cleaning and preparations tasks. R provides a solid set of string operations, but because they have grown organically over time, t...
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Review: Financial Risk Forecasting – The Theory and Practice of Forecasting Market Risk, with Implementation in R and MATLAB by Jon Danielsson
Guest post to R-bloggers by Dr Kris Boudt. ——————– R has always been my favorite language to forecast financial risk in my research and consulting. But, I have been reluctant to use it in my lectures on financial risk. It is certainly not the absence of appropriate R packages that refrained me. On the contrary, there i...
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Marketing optimization using the nonlinear minimization function nlm
Guest post by Bob Agnew ([email protected]) —————- Introduction Marketing optimization consists of assigning offers to prospects in order to maximize total expected profit subject to a few general linear constraints and the requirement that a prospect receives at most one offer. What distinguishes these problems is t...
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rmongodb – R Driver for MongoDB
The source code to rmongodb (home page at http://cnub.org/rmongodb.ashx), a driver to MongoDB for the R language, has been released as open source at GitHub: https://github.com/gerald-lindsly/rmongodb. This portable full-featured package was developed on top of the mongodb.org supported C driver. It runs almost entirely in native code so...
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