Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
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@rom1francois In fact, package 'wordcloud' is even a happy user of #Rcpp itself :)
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Romain analyses tweets by the French presidential candidates. Wordcloud next? ;-) ♻ @rom1francois: [...] gist.github.com/2339542. #rstats
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@statalgo Apart from the fact that also feel that 'base' is already plenty big so there will never be a lasso in base. Best case: rec'd pkg.
@statalgo: (cont) and with Open Source we always "let 1000 flowers bloom". And since when is having choice and competition a detriment?
@statalgo I think there are two distinct issues: Only Matlab (== closed source) can guarantee 'one toolbox per topic'. (cont.)
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Don't give him ideas :) We squashed a (mostly non-)bug. ♻ @statalgo: @romain_francois Add some Easter eggs to #rcpp while you're at it.
Nice new nickname for R-devel: It now says 'R Under development (unstable) (2012-03-31 r58890) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"' #rstats
This morning's (short) run brings the monthly mileage to 207.8 miles. Which is probably a new personal record, and also somewhat insane.
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Makes my life easier :) MT @kirkwy: Placeholder for #RInFinance2012 talk: "Insanely Cool Stuff from OpenGamma+R". Think I'll keep it!
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Double-whammy: R 2.15.0 and ESS 12.03 released; uploaded new packages to Debian for both. #rstats
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New RcppArmadillo releases 0.2.37 and 0.2.38, but not on CRAN --- more about that at goo.gl/zp2X3 #rstats
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New package RcppSMC for Sequential Monte Carlo and Particle Filters (joint with with Adam Johansen) is on CRAN. goo.gl/k5RdL #rstats
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Hindsight, and a time machine... ♻ @joshua_ulrich: Messy data is a fact of life [..] annoying when [...] foresight could have prevented it.
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Thank you! ♻ @revodavid: Really impressive program for R/Finance 2012. Signif. real-world apps of #rstats in #finance. bit.ly/GENmju
RT @romain_francois The #rcpp family gets a new package. Welcome to Rmalschains 0.1. lists.r-forge.r-project.org/… #rstats
R/Finance 2012 registration is now open; see the (draft) agenda and more details at goo.gl/z0nxb #rstats #finance
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And @romain_francois, of course! "@iqssrtc Using #Rcpp to leverage the speed of c++ with the ease and clarity of R. Thanks, @eddelbuettel"
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Good piece on the outlook for the equity risk premium in today's Economist goo.gl/OmyZ8
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@rom1francois The "plong" you just heard was the sound of a penny dropping, belatedly. Thanks :)
Tiens, "merci", c'est où encore? MT @rom1francois Quand on me demandes "t'es d'où ?" ... je réponds "merci"
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