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R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award – Revolutions

February 3rd, 2010

“The American Statistical Association recently created a new, bi-annual award to to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. The committee has just announced the winner (or in this, joint winners) of the first award: Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, for their work in initiating the R Project for Statistical Computing.”

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Create and Use Barcodes to Simplify Your Book List

January 9th, 2010
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In keeping track of my books, I have been looking for a simple way to generate barcodes as individual graphics that I could embed in my book list. I think I’ve found it: Dan Bornstein’s Barcode Server, which I found at the BarcodesInc‘s UPC/EAN Barcode Generator.While the online version is nice, I wanted something a little more flexible and robust, so I downloaded the C source code.

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Interactive data visualizations with R

January 3rd, 2010

Jeroen Ooms, a visiting scholar at UCLA’s Department of Statistics, has been very busy with R — he has two wonderfully slick online apps where users are able (for free) to visualize datasets using R’s ggplot. If you’re interested in R, stocks, or just data visualization, you’ll find something of real value in his applications.

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the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry

December 31st, 2009

I’ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 — something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin’s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin’s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations in the document by chapter with each revision. » Read more: the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry

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Intro to The R Programming Language: For Programmers

August 31st, 2009

As someone who’s new to R and curious about what it can do, one of the first questions I ask is how does it compare to Java, C#, Perl, etc. (Insert language-of-choice here.) Fortunately,John Cook has answered that question with his blog post: The R programming language for programmers coming from other programming languages. Take a few minutes to check it out and see for yourself why R is the up-and-comer.

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