My first job required me to write some software in PHP; the good thing about PHP is that everybody seems to be able to use it. This means that if I’m stuck a quick Google search will find me a solution. However, I do find that much of the help Read more…
A vistor of the blog and ‘all round stack overflow good guy’ Ben Marwick pointed me in the direction of the fantastic blog: Prochronisms. or: Downton Crabbey. Using TV anachronisms to learn about changes in language, and trying to avoid complete curmudgeonhood in the process. From what I can gather Ben Schmidt takes scripts of modern Read more…
Previously I’ve mentioned how valuable Stack Overflow is as a resource when getting into a new such as R but yet again I’ve been blown away by just how generous people are with their time. Last week I was incredibly stuck using R. I had been stuck on the same Read more…
Getting into R can be quite daunting. It’s a new language to you, programmers are worrying about polishing up their math skills, statisticians are worrying about their programming skills and its hard keeping up with all the new and exciting packages . I found a good way to get myself Read more…
Today I discovered Telenovelas. Telenovelas are short limited run programs similar to soap opera, they are popular in Spanish language counties and they are serious business. I stumbled across a clip on youtube and was instantly hooked. Check this out: I headed to Wikipedia to find out more only to Read more…
There is a great text mining package in R called ‘tm’. This is a short introduction to tm and how it can be used to create what is called a Document-Term Matrix, which is a matrix showing the frequency of terms over a collection of documents. While this is quite Read more…
I recently did a powerpoint on how I use R to poke Linked Data endpoints, it is hosted on slideshare and am posting it here incase anybody is interested.
Being new to R I found it hard to get what I want out of dataframes. I stumbled across a package called SQLDF which lets you use SQL statements (SQLite syntax I think) to query the dataframes by replacing table names are replaced with data frame names. While this might not be a Read more…
A few days ago I made a picture of artists in punk rock bands and the relationships between them based on the bands they have played in. Click to make it bigger: I grabbed the data from the dbpedia endpoint on the web, put it into google refine, exported Read more…
