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Python: Numerical Descriptions of the Data

March 12, 2014
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Python: Numerical Descriptions of the Data

We are going to explore the basics of Statistics using Python. And we'll go through the following:Importing the data;Apply summary statistics;Other measures of variability (variance and coefficient of variation);Other measures of position (percentile a...

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RUG-Philippines Meetup: Markov Switching Models in R

March 7, 2014
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To the R users based in the Philippines, there will be upcoming meetup, here are the details:topics: Markov Switching Models in R           by Ohly Santos           How to use the op...

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Mathematica: Introducing the Wolfram Language

February 25, 2014
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Finally, here it is, check out the video below as Stephen Wolfram showcases the Wolfram language, From my previous post, I said that I used Wolfram Mathematica for about a year before I embrace R. And frankly, I've been in love with Mathematica; it nev...

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LaTeX: How to install TeX Live – qtree package in Ubuntu 12.10

February 25, 2014
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LaTeX: How to install TeX Live – qtree package in Ubuntu 12.10

There is a question on TeX - StackExchange that has no direct solution to the installation of the qtree - TeX Live package in Ubuntu. And I want to answer that in this post, then just drop the link of this article to the comment section of the said que...

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R: Fun with surf3D function

February 19, 2014
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R: Fun with surf3D function

There is one package that I've been longing. A package that will give me the power to manipulate and do any 3D stuffs in R. I tried persp and wireframe, but I find them difficult to use especially on complicated mathematical functions, like doing param...

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R: Animating 2D and 3D plots

February 13, 2014
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R: Animating 2D and 3D plots

One great package in R is the animation made by Yihui Xie. And just for fun, we are going to explore that. Our aim is to create simple animated 2D and 3D plots. Here is the first one, 2D of courseThe code,It's a piece of cake right? The function we use...

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Python and R: Is Python really faster than R?

January 31, 2014
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A friend of mine asked me to code the following in R:Generate samples of size 10 from Normal distribution with $\mu$ = 3 and $\sigma^2$ = 5;Compute the $\bar{x}$ and $\bar{x}\mp z_{\alpha/2}\displaystyle\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}$ using the 95% confidence...

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Book Review: Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python by Joel Lawhead

December 10, 2013
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Book Review: Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python by Joel Lawhead

I decided to read this book since I've been doing maps using R. Hence it is better to learn the literature and science behind mapping and how to do a proper analysis on it. In addition, I would like to see what Python can offer in this discipline.The b...

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R: Explore ARIMA(2, 2, 2) subclass family on Shiny

December 2, 2013
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R: Explore ARIMA(2, 2, 2) subclass family on Shiny

I've been thinking that it might be better to explore the Box-Jenkins ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving-Average) three-iterative modelling on Shiny. So here is what I got, this app is intended for ARIMA(2, 2, 2) subclass family only.The app has s...

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Book Review: Practical Data Analysis by Hector Cuesta

November 28, 2013
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Book Review: Practical Data Analysis by Hector Cuesta

I have been reading this book since last week, and now I want to share my thoughts about it. I was excited to review this because I've never heard most of the tools it features, like OpenRefine, MongoDB, and MapReduce. The book has 360 pages and surpri...

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