Publications by mages

Interactive presentations with deck.js

20.11.2011

Data analysis is often an iterative and interactive process. However, when I present about this subject, I feel often limited by the presentation software I use. It doesn’t matter if I use LaTeX/PDF, PowerPoint or Keynote. In all cases it is either very difficult or impossible to include interactive charts, such as Flash or SVG charts. As a res...

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Fitting distributions with R

01.12.2011

Fitting distribution with R is something I have to do once in a while.A good starting point to learn more about distribution fitting with R is Vito Ricci’s tutorial on CRAN. I also find the vignettes of the actuar and fitdistrplus package a good read. I haven’t looked into the recently published Handbook of fitting statistical ...

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LondonR, 6 December 2011

10.12.2011

The London R user group met again last Wednesday at the Shooting Star pub. And it was busy. More than 80 people had turned up. Was it the free beer and food, sponsored by Mango which attracted the folks or the speakers? Or the venue? James Long, who organises the Chicago R user group meetings and who gave gave the first talk that nigh...

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Data is the new gold

13.12.2011

We need more data journalism. How else will we find the nuggets of data and information worth reading? Life should become easier for data journalists, as the Guardian, one of the data journalism pioneers, points out in this article about the new open data initiative of the European Union (EU). The aims of the EU’s open data strateg...

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googleVis 0.2.13: new stepped area chart and improved geo charts

23.12.2011

On 7th December Google published a new version of their Visualisation API. The new version adds a new chart type: Stepped Area Chart and provides improvements to Geo Chart. Now Geo Chart has similar functionality to Geo Map, but while Geo Map requires Flash, Geo Chart doesn’t, as it renders SVG/VML graphics. So it also works on your iOS devices...

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Is R turning into an operating system?

31.12.2011

Over the years I convinced my colleagues and IT guys that R and LaTeX/XeLaTeX is the way forward to produce lots of customer reports with individual data, charts, analysis and text. Success!But of course the operating system in the office is still MS Windows.With my background in Solaris/Linux/Mac OSX I am still a little bit lost in the Windows w...

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Conference talk submission

18.02.2014

The second conference on R in Insurance will be held on Monday 14 July 2014 at Cass Business School in London, UK. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in Insurance. This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial scien...

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