If you've seen the new Captain America movie, you might notice that statistics (and data mining more generally) are featured prominently...

How to call Python within R in Windows? This is a project I'd like to dedicate myself once I have more time, since every native R user w...

One issue that I've been trying to resolve is how to graph class-conditional response probabilities manually using the package 'poLC...

For several weeks I've been working on examining Tweets using code from R. Here's one approach to analyzing Twitter feeds: # see h...

The political scientists Gary King and Maya Sen have just posted an excellent working paper clearly outlining the major problems facing h...

Zombies are now a common topic of discussion. In fact, the data we have available from Google Trends (for the phrase "zombie attack...

I'm now an occasional blogger at Permutations , the official blog of the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological As...

I highly recommend Anthony Damico's excellent two-minute videos on programming in R . You can find the full list of 90+ videos here . Th...

The C onsortium for the A dvancement of U ndergraduate S tatistics E ducation is hosting a global online conference titled " eCOTS: Ele...

It's been over four years that I've been using both R and Stata, but as of last week I've become an R convert . For several year...