The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for 5 October 2012. All details and the agenda are available on the KölnRUG Meetup site. Please sign up if you would like to come along. Notes from the last Cologne R user group meeting are available ...
I read an interesting post on the NY Times site this morning, which said: Analyzing data from the 2008 American National Election Study, we found no relationship between negative feelings toward African-Americans and opposition to government-provided health care among whites without college degrees. For college-educated whites, however, negative racial feelings were strongly associated with increased [...]
The next version of the googleVis package has been released on the project site and CRAN. This version provides updates to the package vignette and a new example for the gvisMerge function. The new sections of the vignette have been featured on this bl...
‘Big Data’ event now available to viewJuly 10, 2012 News No comments Print PDFThe Big Data Opportunity event, chaired last week (3 July 2012) by RSS executive director Hetan Shah and featuring cabin...
Andy Field just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/ProfAndyField/status/219757478018166784/photo/1 Filed under: news, serious stats Tagged: text books
This post is a quick reminder that the next Cologne R user group meeting is only one week away. We will meet on 6 July 2012. The meeting will kick off at 18:00 with three short talks at the Institute of Sociology and will continue, even more informal, ...
A new version of googleVis has been released on CRAN and the project site. Version 0.2.16 adds the functionality to plot quarterly and monthly data as a motion chart. To illustrate the new feature I looked for a quarterly data set and stumbled across...
For an hour or so earlier today Serious Stats was #1 in the amazon.co.uk sales rank for the category: Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Methodology > Statistics As of writing the rank has dropped to #3 (but I’m still quite excited – even though I know this may not imply large numbers of pre-orders). They have also […]
Whilst writing the book the latest version of R changed several times. Although I started on an earlier version, the bulk of the book was written with 2.11 and it was finished under R 2.12. The final version of the R scripts were therefore run and checked using R 2.12 and, in the main, the most recent […]
