Statistical Analysis and Data Mining hot on LinkedIn for 2014

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining are considered the hottest skills on LinkedIn for 2014.  According to their report from analyzing jobs and recruiters on the LinkedIn website.  I would say its safe to say that it will continue to be hot for 2015.

If you are looking to get your skills honed up I would suggest looking at ComputerWorld's Beginners Guide to R.  It looks like a complete tutorial and is indexed rather well.

Interesting high contrast plots in R

I was inspired by this blog post and thought I could do the same thing in R.  Well I posted the code in Google+


Here are my results.  Not bad.

Introducing the Shiny App DThiring

Well it has a been a long time since I have written anything on this blog.  I am long overdue.  I've been terribly busy learning new things and getting on with life.  One of the things I have learned is building R applications using Shiny developed by RStudio.   The folks at RStudio have also created a way to deploy Shiny apps using Shinyapps.io.  Follow the link to DThiring

http://larrydag.shinyapps.io/dthiring/

I'm a big fan of Data Tau which is a Data Science equivalent to Hacker News.  Like Hacker News, Data Tau has a Who's Hiring comment on the first of every month.  It is a good resource for those looking to see relevant jobs in the Data Science world.  Well someone created a hiring listings aggregator called http://hnhiring.me/.  I decided I wanted to see if I could build a similar application using R and Shiny.

I will be posting the source code for this app to github in the near future.

If you have any ideas on how to improve this application let me know in this comment section.

OpenOpt 0.53

I'm glad to inform you about new OpenOpt Suite release 0.53:
    Stochastic programming addon now is available for free
    Some minor changes
Regards, Dmitrey.