Quite appropriate on a V Day, OK Cupid remains quite innovative how they use data (in this questionnaire data)
Qgis is Quantum GIS http://www.qgis.org/
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, MacOSX, and Windows and supportsnumerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
Learn more about QGISQuantum GIS provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and compose printable maps |
Also you can use both Qgis and R through Python (!!!)
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/HomeRange_plugin#Home-range_analyses_in_QGIS_using_R_through_Python
Interesting app for webs (sometimes better suited than some R map packages)
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/HomeRange_plugin/
Based on a Google Summer of Code _
Also
https://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/introqgis_r
and
HomeRange_plugin
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/HomeRange_plugin
Also read-
Related Articles-
https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/r-graphs-resources/
https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/using-r-from-other-software/
and
http://brocktibert.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/visualize-nhl-play-by-play-using-tableau-public-and-r/
R Node is a great web interface to R.
http://squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php
R-Online https://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ulfi/cgi-bin/r-online/r-online.cgi(The official FAQ seems outdated )
http://sysbio.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/Rwui/
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.rsp/index.html
http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/Rserve/00Index.html
http://rpad.googlecode.com/svn-history/r76/Rpad_homepage/index.html
JSS paper Citation. CGIwithR: Facilities for processing Web forms using R. Journal of Statistical Software, 8(10), pp. 1-8, 2003.
A lecture on aspects of using CGI
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rapache/
Wessa, P. (2011), Free Statistics Software, Office for Research Development and Education,
version 1.1.23-r6, URL http://www.wessa.net/
submit button to submit the data. The procedure selection window is used to start the analysis, which uses the current values in the data window.
To make an interactive GUI in gWidgets can be as easy as creating the following script:
w <- gwindow(’simple interactive GUI with one button’, visible=FALSE)
g <- ggroup(cont=w)
b <- gbutton(’click me’, cont=g, handler=function(h,...) {
gmessage(’hello world’, parent=b)
})
visible(w) <- TRUE
A big and slightly outdated resource page from (which I used for some find and seek of resources)
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/StatCompCourse
AND
The famous site at http://www.yeroon.net/ggplot2/ (but no sharing of this site’s source code ,sigh!)
Thats all for now- but watch this space its exciting (to watch AND code) –
This page lists code editors (or IDE)
https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/code-enhancers-for-r/
https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/graphical-user-interfaces-for-r/
https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/odbc-databases-for-r/
I just found about a new data visualization tool called Protovis http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/
Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.
Protovis is free and open-source and is a Stanford project. It has been used in web interface R Node (which I will talk later )
http://squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php
While Protovis is designed for custom visualization, it is still easy to create many standard chart types. These simpler examples serve as an introduction to the language, demonstrating key abstractions such as quantitative and ordinal scales, while hinting at more advanced features, including stack layout.
Many charting libraries provide stock chart designs, but offer only limited customization; Protovis excels at custom visualization design through a concise representation and precise control over graphical marks. These examples, including a few recreations of unusual historical designs, demonstrate the language’s expressiveness.
Try Protovis today 🙂 http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example.
Image source-http://www.icondrawer.com/free.php
The Document Foundation is happy to announce the release candidate of
LibreOffice 3.3.1. This release candidate is the first in a series of
frequent bugfix releases on top of our LibreOffice 3.3 product. Please
be aware that LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC1 is not yet ready for production
use, you should continue to use LibreOffice for that.
http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/msg00028.html
Following is the list of changes against LibreOffice 3.3:
Key changes at a glance:
* Numerous translation updates
* new mimetype icons for LibreOffice – explained here:
http://luxate.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-even-included-but-already-improved.html
* quite a few crasher fixes
Detailed change log:
* translation updates
* Removed old/unmaintained icon themes
* Fix for https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664516: Don’t
use a reference or the default formula string will be changed
* Install bash completion for oo* wrappers when enabled
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665402)
* Build fix: get the stlport compat workaround working for gcc 4.6.0
* Build fix: no ddraw.h or ddraw.lib in the June 2010 DirectX SDK,
removed usage
* Windows installer: padded nologobanner.bmp, new size is 102×58
* removed gd – Gaelic, ky – Kirghiz, pap – Papiamento, ti – Tigrinya,
ms – Malay, ps – Pashto, ur – Urdu. UI localization does not exist
in these languages. So it makes no sense to ship packages.
* Build fix: pass thru PYTHON, found by configure. Will be used by
filter/source/config/fragments/makefile.mk.
* Upgraded libwpd (WordPerfect filter) to 0.9.1
* Fixed BrOffice Windows start menu branding
* Removed language code ‘kid’. kid is not Koshin, but key id pseudo
language which is good for debugging UI but should no be included
in the product
* Added ca_XV and ast language/local name and description
* Fixed incorrect page number in page preview mode
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33155). When the
window is large enough to show several ‘Page X’ strings,
the page number was not properly incremented.
* Fixed incorrect import of cell attributes from Excel
documents. When a cell with non-default formatting attribute starts
with non-first row in a column, the filter would incorrectly apply
the same format to all the cells above it if they didn’t have any
formats.
* Ubuntu: fix for lp#696527 – enable human icon theme in LibreOffice
* Fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673819 crash on
changing position of drawing object in header.
* Changed OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice in nsplugin
* Added Occitan dictionary
* Added Ukrainian dictionaries
* Fix window focus for langpack installation on Mac –
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33056
* Added/modified NLPsolver translations from Pootle
* Fix for https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655763
* Fix for RTF export crasher
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656503)
* Use LibreOffice as product name for EPS Creator header
* Parse svg ‘color’ property (fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33551)
* Use double instead of float in writerfilter import
* Build fix: use PYTHON as passed through by set_soenv.in.
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33237 remove
debug line
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33237 – fixes
ole object import for writer (docx)
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33249 –
rename OOo -> LibO on Getting Support Page
* Fix ooxml import: handle css::table::BorderLine in addition to
css::table::BorderLine2 That means that table cell properties are
correctly set on import again.
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33258 –
wikihelp: Improve the check for existence of the localized help.
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33994 – fixes
several crashes around config UNO API
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30879
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32872 –
Implementation names weren’t matching with xcu.
* Fix: don’t pushback and process a corrupt extension
* Fix: wikihelp – do not check for existence of the localized
help. In case we do not have the help installed, it is up to the
online service to decide the fallback in case a language version is
not available.
* Fix README: change su urpmi to sudo urpmi for Mandriva section
* Fix README formatting –
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32741 – using CRLF
instead of LF on WIN platform
* Fix README: word wrap at column 75 for better readability
* Build fix: KDE3 library search order
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32797). Use LINKFLAGS
instead of STDLIBS.
* Start using technical.dic instead of oracle.dic
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31798)
* Build fix: add explicit QRegion* for clipRegion to fix compile of
kde backend
* Cleanup: removed obsolete m_bSingleAltPress
* Remove the menu when Left Alt Key was pressed for GTK
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33459: use
year of era in long format for zh_TW by default
* Fix wrong collation for Catalan language
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31271 wrong
line break with “(”
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32561 – crash
when iterating over the database types.
* Default currency for Estonia should be Euro – fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33160
* Avoid a pointless GetHelpText() call in the toolbox. Fixes
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33315. GetHelpText()
can be quite heavy, see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33088.
* Paint toolbar handle positioned properly
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32558)
* Build fix: move cxxabi.h after stl headers to workaround gcc 4.6.0
and stlport
* Fix for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33355 –
manipulate also the C runtime’s environment
* Fix for CTL/Other Default Font #i25247#, #i25561#, #i48064#,
#i92341#
* RTF export crasher
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656503)
* Fixed an infinite loop in RTF exporter
* UI: translations need more space on word count dialog, made space
for it.
* Fix for https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660816 improve
formfield checkbox binary export (and import)
Again a BIG Thank You!
Again whats Libre Office
What does LibreOffice give you?Writer is the word processor inside LibreOffice. Use it for everything, from dashing off a quick letter to producing an entire book with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams. The while-you-type auto-completion, auto-formatting and automatic spelling checking make difficult tasks easy (but are easy to disable if you prefer). Writer is powerful enough to tackle desktop publishing tasks such as creating multi-column newsletters and brochures. The only limit is your imagination.
Calc tames your numbers and helps with difficult decisions when you’re weighing the alternatives. Analyze your data with Calc and then use it to present your final output. Charts and analysis tools help bring transparency to your conclusions. A fully-integrated help system makes easier work of entering complex formulas. Add data from external databases such as SQL or Oracle, then sort and filter them to produce statistical analyses. Use the graphing functions to display large number of 2D and 3D graphics from 13 categories, including line, area, bar, pie, X-Y, and net – with the dozens of variations available, you’re sure to find one that suits your project.
Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special effects help you convince your audience. Create presentations that look even more professional than the standard presentations you commonly see at work. Get your collegues’ and bosses’ attention by creating something a little bit different.
Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple with box and line diagrams? Or else go further and easily build dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. It’s as simple or as powerful as you want it to be.
Base is the database front-end of the LibreOffice suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures into the other components of LibreOffice, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application. You can use imported and linked tables and queries from MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft Access and many other data sources, or design your own with Base, to build powerful front-ends with sophisticated forms, reports and views. Support is built-in or easily addable for a very wide range of database products, notably the standardly-provided HSQL, MySQL, Adabas D, Microsoft Access and PostgreSQL.
Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.
LibreOffice also comes configured with a PDF file creator, meaning you can distribute documents that you’re sure can be opened and read by users of almost any computing device or operating system.
Download LibreOffice now and try it out today.
http://www.libreoffice.org/features/
Okay, through the weekend I created a website for a few of my favourite things.
It’s on at https://rforanalytics.wordpress.com/
I dont trust anyone not using atleast one R GUI. Here’s a list of the top 10.
Here is a list of top 5 code enhancers,editors in R
A list of companies and software making (and) selling R software (and) services. Hint- it is almost 5 (unless I missed someone)
R’s famous graphing capabilities and equally famous learning curve can be made a bit more humane- using some of these resources.
Because that’s what I do (all I do as per my cat) , and I am pretty good at it.
R can be used successfully from a lot of analytical software including some surprising ones praising the great 3000 packages library.
(to be continued- as I find more stuff I will keep it there, some ideas- database access from R, prominent R consultants, prominent R packages, famous R interviewees 😉 )
ps- The quote from Jerry Rubin seems funny for a while. I turn 34 this year.
Area Charts
Bar & Column Charts
Scatterplots
Pie & Donut Charts
Line & Step Charts
Stacked Charts
Grouped Charts
Anderson’s Flowers
Becker’s Barley
Bertin’s Hotel
Streamgraphs
Sparklines
Bullet Charts
Bubble Charts
Sizing the Horizon
Candlestick Charts
Burtin’s Antibiotics
Nightingale’s Rose
Playfair’s Wheat
Gas & Driving
Seattle Weather
Marey’s Trains
Stemplots
Merge Sort
