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David Smith
September 3, 2010

Competition: Data Visualization with ggplot2

The ggplot2 package for R is an amazing system for creating entirely new visualizations of data. It allows data analysts to tell a detailed, meaningful and yet easy-to-interpret story about complex and/or unusual data sets.  

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David Smith
September 2, 2010

New R User Group in New Jersey

Folks in the New Jersey area no longer need to trek over to New York City to meet other R users. Now there's NewJerseyR, a new R user group put together by Mango Solutions. The first meeting will in Iselin on September 16, with speakers from Mango, Pfizer, and Bristol Myers Squibb. Full details at the NewJerseyR website, linked below.

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David Smith
September 1, 2010

How to generate correlated random numbers

We've covered how to generate random numbers in R before, but what if you want to go beyond generating one random number at a time? What if you want to generate two, or three or more random numbers, and what's more, you want them to be correlated?

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David Smith
August 31, 2010

R is indispensable, because it's reproducible

Maria Wolters, self-styled "Science-Mum of two" and speech and language technology researcher, has a great blog post about the one tool she couldn't live without: R. Maria says R is her "favourite tool for analysing experimental results and modelling the resulting patterns of behaviour and preferences", and explains why:

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David Smith
August 30, 2010

Wanted: R Analysis of New Scientist Covers

Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles -- from New Scientist's San Francisco bureau -- are looking for a statistician and R user to take part in an interesting data analysis challenge, and also be part of a future article in the magazine. They were inspired by this rather tongue-in-cheek presentation where Sebastian Wernicke analyzed videos, transcripts and ratings of TED talks to conclude, for example, that a talk about how "French coffee spreads happiness in your brain" would be the "ultimate TED talk".