Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Why use R for Data Analysis?

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS: http://bit.ly/1k0oHT5. PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.

Update: Ramnath, thanks for the fix for the error from rawgithub
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This was a presentation made to few of my colleagues. The idea was to provide a brief introduction to R, provide few reasons for my switching to it, and give some samples of graphics/interactive visualizations that could be created with minimal coding. Slidify (impressjs framework) was used for putting the presentation together (the coding is imperfect) and the graphs/charts used ggplot2, rCharts, corrplot, healthvis, and PerformanceAnalytics libraries.

Relevant code: https://github.com/patilv/UseR
Link to the presentation (for a larger view) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56796392/WhyR/index.html OR http://patilv.github.io/UseR2/
(The presentation may not show up with the impressjs jazz if the browser is incompatible with it. Apologies in advance.)