- Two pieces of interesting data visualization work attracted some attention this week. How Americans Die by Matthew Klein of Bloomberg Visual Data and The Music America’s Listening To by Chris Kolmar of Movoto Blog.
- Popular R articles of the week are: Testing for Linear Separability with Linear Programming in R by Raffael Vogler, Twitter Extraction by Ethan Fosse, Simpson’s Paradox Is Back by Mad (Data) Scientist, and Object Oriented Programming with R: An example with a Cournot duopoly by Bruno Rodrigues.
- Have you ever tried Julia or have considered adopting it? Econometrics by Simulation reviews Julia from an R user’s perspective for those who are interested in learning this programming language.
- Rapport summarizes some key metrics about the popularity of R like the number of R Foundation members per country all over the world, and presents his findings in a report called R activity around the world.
- And finally, Why are R users so damn Stingy?!
