Short Course on R and Data Mining Information Technology and Engineering, University of Canberra Fees: There is no fees for the short course but seats are limited to 60 – so register early through http://www.meetup.com/CanberraDataSci/events/234168862/ Presenters: Dr Yanchang Zhao (Adjunct … Continue reading →
In a recent post I noted that despite Bernie Sanders doing better in many important indicators, Obama 2008 received 3x more media coverage than Sanders 2016.Reasonably, a reader of my blog noted that not all coverage was equal, that a presidential hope...
Topic: Text, Knowledge, and Information Extraction Speaker: Dr. Lizhen Qu, Researcher at NICTA Organizer: Canberra Data miners Meetup Group Date and time: 4:30-5:30pm, Tuesday 1 Sept Location: Teal Room of Inspire Centre, University of Canberra, Building 25, University of Canberra, … Continue reading →
At last Friday's Cologne R user group meeting we welcomed two Northerners from the left and right (or 'right' and 'wrong') side of the Rhine.Using R in Excel via R.NETGünter Faes and Matthias SpixDownload slidesGünter and Michael presented examples o...
We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 2.1.1 What is qdap? qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue … Continue reading →
The area of bibliometrics is not my area of expertise but is still of interest as a researcher. I sometimes think about how Google has impacted the way we title articles. Gone are the days of witty, snappy titles. Title … Continue reading →
In this post I will explore public data being collected by Slate. I previously released code using a much early set of this data demonstrating how to turn this data into an animated map.This data began collection as a public response to the horri...
How's that fried pickle sandwich treating you? Perhaps your taste in R functions are less bizarre than your taste in R commands?Now you can easily find out using this new shiny app! In this post I use the R function frequency table co...
UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1jKxfDu . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.Code updated based on feedback (s...
UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1nzKbdq . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.This is an attempt at learning an...
