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• Guide to R pacakges by Greg Lamp at February 10 2013
  

  Here's a guide to getting started with R packages.

  It goes over some really crucial R packages and gives some nice examples for how to use them. They even ...

• bashplotlib - plotting in the terminal by Greg Lamp at February 6 2013
  

  Have you ever been combing through log files on a server and thought, "This would be a lot easier to investigate if I could just plot this?" Well I was ...

• Juice Labs Chart Chooser in R by Greg Lamp at December 30 2012
  

  A few months ago, Juice Labs published an awesome Chart Chooser for helping people decide which type of chart or graphic to use in their presentations. The only thing I ...

• Why use SVM? by Greg Lamp at December 23 2012
  

  Support Vector Machine has become an extremely popular algorithm. In this post I try to give a simple explanation for how it works and give a few examples using the ...

• Who covers the spread? by Greg Lamp at September 1 2012
  

  Interstingly enough, it seems not all teams are staked equally. While most teams cover between 45%-55% (or about half) of their games, there are a few teams you might ...