The following is from a hands-on session I led at the recent Computer Assisted Reporting conference. There’s a lot of activity going on with R packages now because of a new R development package ...

For everything from styling text and customizing color palettes to creating your own geoms, these ggplot2 add-ons deserve a place in your R data visualization toolkit. Plus, a bonus list of packages ...

Representative visualization features of the GseaVis R package showing enhanced GSEA plots, multi-pathway comparisons, heatmap annotations, and circular layout options for comprehensive gene set ...

Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that works with R or Python. And it’s now available as an add-on for the ...

For years, geneticist Helene Royo used commercial software to analyse her work. She would extract DNA from the developing sperm cells of mice, send it for analysis and then fire up a package called ...

Designed to introduce students to quantitative methods in a way that can be applied to all kinds of data in all kinds of situations, Statistics and Data Visualization Using R: The Art and Practice of ...

R is hot. Whether measured by more than 10,000 add-on packages, the 95,000+ members of LinkedIn’s R group or the more than 400 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that ...

We’ve all heard that Big Data is the future. But according to Phil Simon’s new book The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions, that may not be quite ...