Map of Credit Ratings using R and Google maps' API
This is a repost from the R-bloggers mailing list, with a quick script showing credit rating on a global map. It displays sovereign credit ratings by S&P, Fitch, Moody's, and Chinese rating firm,...
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American Beards Over Time: Time Series in R (Part I)
If you use R for time series analysis, chances are you've used Robert J. Hyndman's excellent forecast tools. I recently stumbled on his time series data library where I found just the data set I've...
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Recession Beard? Time Series in R (Part II)
In Part I, we showed how to plot a time series of the change in American beards over time, using a dataset from Robert Hyndman's time series data library. Today, we're going to look at whether the...
View ArticleOpening for Clients; Hire me
I have an opening to take on more hours of client work beginning in mid-September. Please feel free to contact me if you're looking for support in forecasting, automation, quantitative design, social...
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Complex causality for 37signals NYT opinion; or Tigers
I really liked this story on the 37signals blog yesterday where Jason Fried explained the process of seemingly serendipitous events that led to his being asked to write an opinion piece in the New...
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Visualizing the History of Philosophy as a social network: The Problem with...
Introduction This is Part I of a series. Part II is available here, and has an updated graphic. How Important is Hegel?! I was surprised I hadn't seen this graphic at Drunks and Lampposts made with...
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Visual Social Network Analysis in R and Gephi Part II
Resuming from last time, I've made some updates to the philosophers' social network including publishing two interactive maps. Quick introduction: you know that sidebar on wikipedia where it tells...
View ArticleSlides from Chicago R User Group Presentation
Are posted as promised:Rug hogan-10-03-2012 from designandanalytics Background on this presentation is available in the previous two blog posts:History of Philosophy Part 1History of Philosophy Part...
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A Network Graph of CRAN package dependencies
Continuing on my recent project of making interactive network graphs (on projects where other brilliant people have already done the difficult querying), here's a visualization of the CRAN package...
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Geography is Destiny (or totally made up)
...and maps are great. As I learn mapping software, I've shown the following map to three smart people, who didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, except the sharp cut-off of Antarctica: Did you...
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