R programming language

A new programming language, R, designed specifically for data mining and statistics is discussed in the New York Times:

“R has really become the second language for people coming out of grad school now, and there’s an amazing amount of code being written for it,” said Max Kuhn, associate director of nonclinical statistics at Pfizer. “You can look on the SAS message boards and see there is a proportional downturn in traffic.”

[via Slashdot][image from R Project Website]

Validation in graphs

Confirming what I always suspected:



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[from the Economist]

Wikipedia visualisation tool

Interesting Wikipedia visualisation tool here called WikiDashboard from PARC [via Magical Nihilism]. It gives a real insight into who edits what when in Wikipedia:

My last.fm tastes

Courtesy of anthony.liekens.net.

del.icio.us and 6pli

I've applied the ubercool data visualisation tool 6pli to my del.icio.us account: it's pretty awesome, and give me a new appreciation for how my interests overlap and relate to each other.


The results can be viewed for yourself here.