A quick demo of RStudio’s R Notebooks shown by John Mount (of Win-Vector LLC, a statistics, data science, and algorithms consulting and training firm). (see http://ift.tt/294IvIr and https://www.rstudio.
(This article was first published on R – Data Shenanigans, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I recently had the opportunity to listen to some great minds in the area of high-frequency data and trading.
The conversation was fascinating to me. One issue that came up was monetization. Basically, creating an R Portfolio is a ton of work. How can you make any money out of it? I’m sure that there are lots of possibilities. But here are the two ways that came up.
I am so pleased to announce that tidytext 0.1.2 is now available on CRAN. This release of tidytext, a package for text mining using tidy data principles by Dave Robinson and me, includes some bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as some new functionality.
Let’s use it to play with mailbox statistics for my gmail account! Follow this link to download the data from your gmail account as a single mbox file. It may be large (15GB in my case), but for further steps it’s enough to keep only headers. grep + cat will do the job.
Lloyds (NYSE:LYG) reported 3Q underlying earnings of GBP1.9bn, slightly below consensus estimates due to marginal misses on both revenues and costs.
Way back in 2012, I posted a simple R script for trying to work out the finishing combinations in the last two races of that year’s F1 season for Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Vettel to explore the circumstances under which Alonso could take the championship (Paths to the F1 2012 Championship
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Almost exactly ten years ago, I bought the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius on Amazon. Amazon Prime didn’t exist then and to qualify for free shipping, I had to purchase a few other books at the same time. Two or three days later they all arrived.
Want to know a little secret? It’s not something I’m super proud of… In fact, most people have no idea whatsoever that I used to be a terrible copywriter. It took me years to learn the most basic fundamentals of writing.
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