Ross Farrelly

http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Sydney/events/85449232/

I will be giving a talk at University of Technology Sydney this Friday - see http://datasearch2.uts.edu.au/analytics/news-events/seminar.cfm for details.

Just passed my Cloudera Hadoop Developer certification exam - hooray!

Find out how to painlessly write map reduce functions in my new blog post http://blogs.teradata.com/anz/reduce-the-pain-of-mapreduce/  

Here is some R code you can use to create a pdf data dictionary from a dataset. It's a quick and easy way to get an overview of a dataset. You need to have a latext program like MiKTeX installed to make it work.   You can see the sort of output it produces here . ####################################### # code to produce a pdf data dictionary of a dataset using sweave # # df: the data frame you want to create the data dictionary of # file_loc: the location where you want the resulting report stored # filename: the name you want the report to have # author: the name of the person who created the data dictionary # #######################################     data_dict <- function ( df , file_loc , file_name , author , num_lev = 2 ) { # initiate libraries library ( tools ) library ( ggplot2 ) library ( gplots ) library ( lattice ) library ( sqldf )   #Make some subsidary functions   # initial funtion to print without q...

Check out my new blog post on big data summit here http://blogs.teradata.com/anz/A-View-from-the-Summit–How-best-to-climb-the-Bi...

I will be presenting at TD Universe shortly - see http://www.teradatauniverse.com.au/default