Some fun with R
Titanic: Getting Started With R
Big Data
More on Data Visualization – Bubble Charts 101
This series is a great introduction/refresher to the power of data visualization: Data Visualization 101: Bubble Charts The chart pictured presents four variables at once: Consumer rating, Revenue, Product type, and Production cost. Very useful and effective.
Data Visualization – a must have
Great article comparing some commercial and open visualization tools: Visualizations: Comparing Tableau, SPSS, R, Excel, Matlab, JS, Python, SAS
Breaking Bad – Good Data
I found two pretty neat sites where the ratings of each of the five years of Breaking Bad episodes were regressed looking for patterns. The first is a bit more exotic and uses a powerful ( and expensive) Excel addin Tabeau. The best graphics are at the bottom of the page: http://www.openbi.com/content/vizualizing-bad-did-breaking-bad-get-better-over-time This one has …
Search for large data sets
I’m trying to come up with some interesting large data sets for use in extra-credit work using predictive analytics, especially something that has interactions and/or need for dummy variables. Anyone out there point me in the right direction?
Open (Free) Big Data Goodies
It is a bit disheartening to know that the predictive analytics/big data world is moving ahead so quickly just as I am trying to learn how to harness it. But it is also nice to find the many open source data analysis tools – user friendly types – becoming commoditized on the Web of Things. …