A few days ago, the great Revolutions blog posted (“Visualizing the census“) about a new utility called StatJump where you can visualize data from the 2010 US Census using, of course, R. Pretty impressive. The image here shows the percentage of students graduating High School, by county. There are tons of canned visualizations — just click one of the menu items (e.g. “Social Demographic Data”) on the home page. You can also run your own searches, though it only seems to return the data in a table — i.e. I haven’t figured out how to generate these maps from my own search. Very powerful tool, considering all those data being searched.
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StatJump – Data Search Made Easy
July 11th, 2010R 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.”
via Revolutions: R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award.
Interactive data visualizations with R
January 3rd, 2010Jeroen 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.
Intro to The R Programming Language: For Programmers
August 31st, 2009As 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.
Rosetta Code
August 31st, 2009One thing I’ve always enjoyed is learning something new, especially a new language. First it started with human languages, but over the past few years (well, more than a few!) I’ve enjoyed learning new programming languages. From Lua to REXX to Icon to Processing (which, technically, isn’t a language but more like an environment) and many others, I’ve loved tinkering with new languages. Now, I found a resource online that lets me compare the various languages. It’s called (appropriately enough) Rosetta Code. Look for a solution to a problem by language or by problem. Fun stuff! Gotta go… Lots to learn…
