Publications by VCASMO - drewconway
Bayesian estimation with Markov Chain Monte Carlo using PyMC
Prof. Chris Fonnesbeck briefly introduces Bayesian inference, then discusses how to estimate Bayesian models with Markov Chain Monte Carlo using PyMC. PyMC is the premier Python package for doing MCMC estimation, and Prof. Fonnesbeck is one of the package’s co-authors. This presentation was given to the NYC R Statistical Programmi...
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Reproducible Research and R Workflow
Jeromy Anglim discusses best practices and tools used to support reproducible research in R. He discusses tools for R scripting and version control; and provides examples of SWeave. This presentation was given to the Melbourne R Users Group (MelbURN) on December 1, 2010. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow th...
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What my R code looks and feels like (Vanilla)
Geoff Robinson discusses how to write simple and reusable R code. He provides several examples with code. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: VCASMO - drewconway. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. ...
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Data-Driven Journalism
The December 2010 meeting of the Bay Area R Users Group featured Peter Aldhous, San Francisco bureau chief of New Scientist magazine who will give a presentation on “Data-Driven Journalism”. From the WikiLeaks War Diaries, to geographical analyses of Netflix rental patterns, news organizations are increasingly running data-heavy ...
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Creating R Packages
Rory Winston provides a detailed introduction to creating R packages. He provides a simple of, from start to finish, as well as how to incorporate native code into your package. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: VCASMO - drewconway. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail upd...
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Flying off the Rack: R and the web in 2011
If there is ever a time to learn R and web application development, it is now…in the age of Big Data. The upcoming release of R 2.13 will provide basic functionality for developing R web applications on the desktop via the internal HTTP server, but the interface is incompatible with rApache. Jeffrey will talk about Rack, a web serve...
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Statistics and Data Analysis in Python with pandas and statsmodels
Wes McKinney is a prominent figure in the scientific Python community, and has made tremendous contributions to several core statistical computing libraries in that language. This month, Wes will be speaking specifically about two packages he has created related to data manipulation in Python and analysis. pandas is a Python library...
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