Publications by Tal Galili
Contest: Road Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation
About prize baring contestsCompetition with prizes are an amazing thing. If you are not sure of that, I urge you to listened to Peter Diamandis talk about his experience with the X prize (start listening at minute 11:40):At short – prizes can give up to 1 to 50 ratio of return on investment of the people giving funding to the prize. The money...
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Visualization of regression coefficients (in R)
Update (07.07.10): The function in this post has a more mature version in the “arm” package. See at the end of this post for more details. * * * *Imagine you want to give a presentation or report of your latest findings running some sort of regression analysis. How would you do it?This was exactly the question Wincent Rong-gui HUANG has rec...
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New versions for ggplot2 (0.8.8) and plyr (1.0) were released today
As prolific as the CRAN website is of packages, there are several packages to R that succeeds in standing out for their wide spread use (and quality), Hadley Wickhams ggplot2 and plyr are two such packages. And today (through twitter) Hadley has updates the rest of us with the news:just released new versions of plyr and ggplot2. source versions ...
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Just updated the list of the new blog de…
Just updated the list about the new blog design and purpose. Hope it will prove useful. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: GSoC 2010 R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or...
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ggplot2 GSOC progress
(Written by Ian Fellows) The RForge build error has been fixed. the package can now be tried with: install.packages(“Deducer”,,”http://www.rforge.net“,type=”source”) Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: GSoC 2010 R. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and ...
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Want to join the closed BETA of a new Statistical Analysis Q&A site – NOW is the time!
The bottom line of this post is for you to go to: Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Statistical Analysis And commit yourself to using the website for asking and answering questions.(And also consider giving the contender, MetaOptimize a visit)* * * *Statistical analysis Q&A website is about to go into BETAA month ago I invited readers of this bl...
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Richard Stallman talk+Q&A at the useR! 2010 conference (audio files attached)
The audio files of the full talk by Richard Stallman are attached to the end of this post.—————–Videos of all the invited talks of the useR! 2010 conference can be viewed on the R User Group blog —————–Last week I had the honor of attending the talk given by Richard Stallman, the last keynote speaker on the useR 2010 confe...
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Blogging about R – presentation and audio
At the useR!2010 conference I had the honor of giving a (~15 minute) talk titled “Blogging about R”. The following is the abstract I submited, followed by the slides of the talk and the audio file of a recording I made of the talk (I am sad it got a bit of “hall echo”, but it’s still listenable…)P.S: this post does not absolve me fro...
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ggplot2 gui: Major feature set complete
(Written by Ian Fellows) There has been quite a bit of progress on the ggplot2 graphical user interface since the last post. All of the major features have been implemented, and are outlined in the vlog links below. What remains is to fix bugs, improve interface elements, and listen to feedback from users (that’s you). Please give it a try by i...
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ggplot2 plot builder is now on CRAN! (through Deducer 0.4 GUI for R)
Ian fellows, a hard working contributer to the R community (and a cool guy), has announced today the release of Deducer (0.4) to CRAN (scheduled to update in the next day or so). This major update also includes the release of a new plug-in package (DeducerExtras), containing additional dialogs and functionality.Following is the e-mail he sent out...
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