Publications by prasoonsharma
Social Network Analysis using R and Gephis
After learning the basics of R, I decided to learn something harder last week. I picked Social Network Analysis (SNA) to learn the concepts of SNA and R. My primary interest in SNA is visual exploration of networks, so I needed to find a tool first. Which tool to use for visual SNA? Features needed:1) graphical representation of network2) visu...
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R is like Ruby
There are many similarities between R and Ruby. – Learning both has been fun – “dude, i’m playing with R and love it.” The excitement doesn’t end!I’m totally addicted. – I keep discovering new and nifty things. Every time I hit an interesting problem, there’s an elegant way to deal with it. Very Ruby like – “If it is tak...
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Data preparation for Social Network Analysis using R and Gephi
I want to share my experience in generating the data for social network analysis using R and analyzing it using Gephi… WHICH DATA STRUCTURE TO USE FOR LARGE GRAPHS?I quickly realized that using edge lists and adjacency matrix gets difficult as the graph size increases. So I needed an alternative graph format that was efficient (for...
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World Bank data plots
Couple of weeks ago, I was looking for interesting data sets to play with using R. I came across this post and got inspired to use World Bank data to extract interesting patterns/facts about developing countries. World Bank has 300+ World Development indicators on 200+ countries from 1960 to 2008. I plotted BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India...
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Indian state population plot
Here’s a quick R plot of population in Indian states and the breakdown by the religion people practice. The data was obtained from this Indian government site. I’m looking for other state-level data to overlay on this to find interesting patterns e.g. crime, literacy etc.Here’s the demographics of India on Wikipedia. As next st...
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Cricket data analysis
Cricket World Cup 2011 is approaching and I’m interested in analyzing one day international cricket data to predict some results and share interesting information about cricket. For the analysis, I need cricket data and tried several things to get it…Personal research: Explored the web but couldn’t find aggregated cricket data anywhere. T...
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Cricket World Cup 2011
Cricket World Cup 2011: Fourteen countries will compete for Cricket championship in Cricket World Cup 2011 from Feb 19, 2011 to Apr 2, 2011 in the Indian sub-continent. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will host 49 matches. Pakistan was removed from the group of hosting countries due to safety concerns. Terrorism is costing Pakistan much more....
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India Pakistan Cricket over the years
Note: Excludes abandoned, canceled and no results games. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Enterprise Software Doesn't Have to Suck. 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 fi...
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One Day Cricket Champions by Decade
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Who’s the best batsman in World Cup Cricket history?
There have been many debates on identifying the best batsman in World Cup Cricket. Here’s one way to determine it. The data shows Sachin Tendulkar as the best ever based on total runs scored (large bubble size), strike rate and runs/game. Bow to the master! Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their...
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