Archive for June 2012
R: Dealing with package updates
Here’s a very short post to highlight one of the “highlights” of my week that I thought was worth sharing with the wider community. One of the things I find great about R is the rapidly evolving ecosystem where new packages are being constantly created and others are being updated. Up until now, I’ve found … Continue reading
R: Creating a shortcut to run a gWidgets GUI
I’ve been playing around with using gWidgets on Windows over the last few weeks as a way of creating front ends for various functions and set of functions that I’ve created, so that non R users can have the benefit of these without having to write a single line of code. The likes of 4Dpiecharts … Continue reading
Graphing the history of philosophy
This one came about because I was searching for a data set on horror films (don’t ask) and ended up with one describing the links between philosophers. To cut a long story very short I’ve extracted the information in the influenced by section for every philosopher on Wikipedia and used it to construct a network … Continue reading
Posts we like
- What Facebook Knows - Technology Review
- Use Decision-Driven Visualization to Activate (Big) Data by Lee Feinberg - BeyeNETWORK
- Wallpapering Fog: It's never been about the data
- Twitter Data Scientist Takes on McDonald's Entire Menu, Survives - Technology Review
- Obama Campaign’s Vast Effort to Re-Enlist ’08 Supporters - NYTimes.com
