The New York Times published an article today on how it has mapped election results over the years. It illustrates the challenges of trying to present complex information succinctly to a lay, and possibly hostile, audience. As they note, simply shading the states of the US based on the party that it voted for makes the country look decidedly Republican. A timely reminder, if we needed it, of the … [Read more...]
Sharing R code using R-Fiddle
If you want to share a snippet of R code with others---e.g. for teaching or to get help on Stack Overflow---consider using R-Fiddle. While gists are good for basic code sharing, R-Fiddle allows others to execute the code in place. You can even embed the code together with a working R console in blog posts (as an iframe). … [Read more...]
R Notebooks
RStudio have announced R Notebooks. This adds an interactive execution model to R Markdown documents. In R Markdown documents text and code can be mixed to create active documents that perform and update analyses as they are run. However, R Markdown documents are executed in batch mode. This makes them more suitable for reporting than for teaching and investigation. With the introduction of R … [Read more...]
Microsoft Data Science Summit
Microsoft have a new conference aimed at data scientists. The first Microsoft Data Science Summit will be held between 26-27 September 2016 in Atlanta GA. The conference will cover ...the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Source techniques and technologies. … [Read more...]
R at Microsoft
David Smith, R Community Lead at Microsoft, talks about how they are using R. He covers both how it is being integrated into the product line and how it is used internally to analyse operational data. … [Read more...]