Revolution Analytics just launched an roadmap detailing their product plan for 2011.
In particular I am excited for the new GUI coming up, the Hadoop packages, new K Means and Data Sort/merge using Revoscaler for bigger datasets, and also the option to offer support for community packages like ggplot2 titled ” More value in Community Version”. Continue reading “Revolution Analytics Product Launches for #rstats in 2011”
I almost missed out on the R Journal for this month- great reading,
and I liked Dr Hadley’s article on stringr package the best. Really really useful package and nice writing too
http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2010-2/RJournal_2010-2_Wickham.pdf
(incidentally I just downloaded a local copy of his ggplot website at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ggplot-static.zip
I aim to really read that one up
Okay, announcement time
I just signed a contract with Springer for a book on R, some what in first half of 2011
” R for Business Analytics”
its going to be a more business analytics than a stats perspective ( I am a MBA /Mech Engineer)
and use cases would be business analytics cases. Do write to me if you need help doing some analytics in R (business use cases)- or want something featured. Big focus would be on GUI and easier analytics, using the Einsteinian principle to make things as simple as possible but no simpler)
Message from PAWCON-
Predictive Analytics World, Mar 14-15 2011, San Francisco, CA
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PAW’s San Francisco 2011 program is the richest and most diverse yet, including over 30 sessions across two tracks – an “All Audiences” and an “Expert/Practitioner” track — so you can witness how predictive analytics is applied at Bank of America, Bank of the West, Best Buy, CA State Automobile Association, Cerebellum Capital, Chessmetrics, Fidelity, Gaia Interactive, GE Capital, Google, HealthMedia, Hewlett Packard, ICICI Bank (India), MetLife, Monster.com, Orbitz, PayPal/eBay, Richmond, VA Police Dept, U. of Melbourne, Yahoo!, YMCA, and a major N. American telecom, plus insights from projects for Anheiser-Busch, the SSA, and Netflix.
PAW’s agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as uplift modeling (net lift), ensemble models, social data (6 sessions on this), search marketing, crowdsourcing, blackbox trading, fraud detection, risk management, survey analysis, and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.
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Until recently I had been thinking that RKWard was the only R GUI supporting Time Series Models-
however Bob Muenchen of http://www.r4stats.com/ was helpful to point out that the Epack Plugin provides time series functionality to R Commander.
Note the GUI helps explore various time series functionality.
Using Bulkfit you can fit various ARMA models to dataset and choose based on minimum AIC
And I also found an interesting Ref Sheet for Time Series functions in R-
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-ts.pdf
and a slightly more exhaustive time series ref card
http://www.statistische-woche-nuernberg-2010.org/lehre/bachelor/datenanalyse/Refcard3.pdf
Also of interest a matter of opinion on issues in Time Series Analysis in R at
http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa2/Rissues.htm
Of course , if I was the sales manager for SAS ETS I would be worried given the increasing capabilities in Time Series in R. But then again some deficiencies in R GUI for Time Series-
1) Layout is not very elegant
2) Not enough documented help (atleast for the Epack GUI- and no integrated help ACROSS packages-)
3) Graphical capabilties need more help documentation to interpret the output (especially in ACF and PACF plots)
More resources on Time Series using R.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/masgs/time%20series/TimeSeriesR2004.pdf
and http://www.statoek.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/veranstaltungen/zeitreihen/sommer03/ts_r_intro.pdf
and books
http://www.springer.com/economics/econometrics/book/978-0-387-77316-2
http://www.springer.com/statistics/statistical+theory+and+methods/book/978-0-387-75960-9
http://www.springer.com/statistics/statistical+theory+and+methods/book/978-0-387-75958-6
http://www.springer.com/statistics/statistical+theory+and+methods/book/978-0-387-75966-1
Here is a great paper on using Time Series in R, and it specifically allows you to use just R output in Base SAS.
SAS Code
/* three methods: */
/* 1. Call R directly – Some errors are not reported to log */
x “’C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin\r.exe’–no-save –no-restore <“”&rsourcepath\tsdiag.r””>””&rsourcepath\tsdiag.out”””;
/* include the R log in the SAS log */7data _null_;
infile “&rsourcepath\tsdiag.out”;
file log;
input;
put ’R LOG: ’ _infile_;
run;
/* include the image in the sas output.Specify a file if you are not using autogenerated html output */
ods html;
data _null_;
file print;
put “<IMG SRC=’” “&rsourcepath\plot.png” “’ border=’0’>”;
put “<IMG SRC=’” “&rsourcepath\acf.png” “’ border=’0’>”;
put “<IMG SRC=’” “&rsourcepath\pacf.png” “’ border=’0’>”;
put “<IMG SRC=’” “&rsourcepath\spect.png” “’ border=’0’>”;
put “<IMG SRC=’” “&rsourcepath\fcst.png” “’ border=’0’>”;
run;
ods html close;
The R code to create a time series plot is quite elegant though-
library(tseries) air <- AirPassengers #Datasetname ts.plot(air) acf(air) pacf(air) plot(decompose(air)) air.fit <- arima(air,order=c(0,1,1), seasonal=list(order=c(0,1,1), period=12) #The ARIMA Model Based on PACF and ACF Graphs tsdiag(air.fit) library(forecast) air.forecast <- forecast(air.fit) plot.forecast(air.forecast)
You can download the fascinating paper from the Analytics NCSU Website http://analytics.ncsu.edu/sesug/2008/ST-146.pdf
About the Author-
Sam Croker has a MS in Statistics from the University of South Carolina and has over ten years of experience in analytics. His research interests are in time series analysis and forecasting with focus on stream-flow analysis. He is currently using SAS, R and other analytical tools for fraud and abuse detection in Medicare and Medicaid data. He also has experience in analyzing, modeling and forecasting in the finance, marketing, hospitality, retail and pharmaceutical industries.
New DC meetup for R Users-
source- http://www.meetup.com/R-users-DC/calendar/14236478/
October’s R meet-up will be co-located with the Predictive Analytics World Conference (http://www.predictive…) taking place in Washington DC October 19-20. PAW is the premiere business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners.
Agenda:
6:30 – 7:30 PAW Reception (open to meet-up attendees)
7:30 – 9:00 DC-R Meetup
Talks:
“How to speak ggplot2 like a native”
Harlan D. Harris, PhD @HarlanH
“Saving the world with R”
Michael Milton @michaelmilton
Important Registration Instructions:
You are welcome to RSVP here at meetup. The PAW organizers have requested that we register in the PAW site for the R meetup so they can provide badges to members which will give you access to the reception. There is no charge to register using the PAW site. Please click here to register.
Speaker Bios
Harlan D. Harris, PhD, is a statistical data scientist working for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions in New York City. He has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to turning to the private sector, he worked as a researcher and lecturer in various areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University.
Harlan’s talk is titled “How to speak ggplot2 like a native.”. One of the most innovative ideas in data visualization in recent years is that graphical images can be described using a grammar. Just as a fluent speaker of a language can talk more precisely and clearly than someone using a tourist phrasebook, graphics based on a grammar can yield more insights than graphics based on a limited set of templates (bar chart, pie graph, etc.). There are at least two implementations of the Grammar of Graphics idea in R, of which the most popular is the ggplot2 package written by Prof. Hadley Wickham. Just as with natural languages, ggplot2 has a surface structure made up of R vocabulary elements, as well as a deep structure that mediates the link between the vocabulary and the “semantic” representation of the data shown on a computer screen. In this introductory presentation, the links among these levels of representation are demonstrated, so that new ggplot2 users can build the mental models necessary for fluent and creative visualization of their data.
Michael Milton is a Client Manager at Blue State Digital. When he’s not saving the world by designing interactive marketing strategies that connect passionate users with causes and organizations, he writes about data and analytics. For O’Reilly Media, he wrote Head First Data Analysis and Head First Excel and has created the videos Great R: Level 1 and Getting the Most Out of Google Apps for Business.
Michael’s talk is called “How to Save the World Using R.” In this wide-ranging discussion, Michael will highlight individuals and organizations who are using R to help others as well as ways in which R can be used to promote good statistical thinking.
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