There are several things on the horizon—not the least of which is my Masters Thesis(*gulp*)—that are keeping me fairly well distracted these days. I hope to have most of the heavy-lifting on this work done by the end of the week, so against all odds normal blogging should pick back up by Friday.
One of the projects that I am working on right now are the slides for my upcoming talk on how to perform network analysis in R at the next NYC R Meetup. If you are going to be in the NYC area on August 6th and are interested in SNA, R or both, sign up and join us. My NYU Politics colleague Andrew Little will also be presenting how to perform some basic econometric analysis in R using Zelig and MatchIt. It promises to be a very interesting night (well, at least the first half when Andrew is speaking).
Also for the R enthusiast but of more immediate concern is tonight’s R flashmob to populate StackOverflow with R content. The flashmob is being organzied over Twitter @rstatsmob by Michael Discoll (@dataspora) and J.D. Long (@cmastication). The convergence of R nerddom begins tonight at 7pm PST, so I encourage R nerds on the east coast to fire up their coffee pots and participate. Here is a brief summary of how the project will work:
We have developed a list of the most common 100 technical R questions, based on an analysis of (i) queries sent to the RSeek.org web portal, and (ii) an examination of the R-help list archives, and (iii) a survey of members of R Users Groups in San Francisco, LA, and New York City.
In the first hour, participants will pair up to claim a question, formulate it on StackOverflow, and provide a comprehensive answer. In the second hour, participants will rate, review, and comment on the set of submitted questions and answers.
While Stackoverflow currently lacks content for the R language, we believe this effort will provide the spark to attract more R users, and emerge as a valuable resource to the growing R community.
Finally, as we enter the dog days of summer, there is a serious drought in new research, or more accurately, I am not finding any new papers of interest. As such, if you see any article that you think might be of interest to me and the ZIA readership please pass it along.
Until then, back to the LaTeX’ing…
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