A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not cited in the approved manner): http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Perhaps some of the eminences grises of the R Foundation could prevail upon Google to make some the data reported in the paper available for inclusion in an R library or two, for pedagogical purposes? Tim C
Tim Churches <tchur <at> optushome.com.au> writes:> > A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the > least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not > cited in the approved manner): > > http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf >... For all of you who noted that the first author is E. Pinheiro: This is not the first half of D Bates, who's first name is Jos?. Dieter
Tim Churches <tchur <at> optushome.com.au> writes:> > A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the > least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not > cited in the approved manner): > > http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf > > Perhaps some of the eminences grises of the R Foundation could prevail > upon Google to make some the data reported in the paper available for > inclusion in an R library or two, for pedagogical purposes? > > Tim C >After skimming the paper, I can't help wondering why they used barplots with error bars instead of boxplots, and why they broke the data into discrete age groups? Given that they had a relatively large data set (several percent of >100,000 disk drives), they could have done some cool visualization stuff ... Ben Bolker