I volunteer with the Southern Ontario Regional Association (SORA) of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) to organize a seminar series on business analytics here in Toronto. The final seminar of the 2012-2013 series will be held on Tuesday, May 21 at SAS Canada Headquarters. If you’re interested in attending, please email seminar.sora@gmail.com with the […]
This is a guest blog from Alvaro Tejada Galindo, my colleague and fellow R and SAP HANA enthusiast. I am thankful to Alvaro for coming and posting on "AllThingsR".Are you an R developers? Have ever heard of SAP HANA? Would you like to test&n...
Mash-up Airlines Performance Data with Historical Weather Data to Pinpoint Weather Related DelaysFor this exercise, I combined following four separate blogs that I did on BigData, R and SAP HANA. Historical airlines and weather dat...
For many of my latest data blogs, I needed historical weather data to perform data mash-ups to pin-point the cause. For example, for my continued exploration into the airlines/airports historical data using SAP HANA and R, I wanted to find out wh...
Technologies: SAP HANA, R, HTML5, D3, Google Maps, JQuery and JSONFor this fun exercise, I analyzed more than 200 million data points using SAP HANA and R and then brought in the aggregated results in HTML5 using D3, JSON and Google Maps APIs. Th...
The Netflix investors must be happy and cheerful as the stock is up more than 78% since the beginning of the year (YES, 78%, Source: Yahoo Finance!). I am not going to talk about what turned the stock around after a much talked/hyp...
Re-posting this blog from my other blog on Analytics (http://allthingsbusinessanalytics.blogspot.com/)Did Netflix make a bad move or a bold move, only time will tell but for now here is a simple sentiment analysis using R and TwitteR pac...
