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...the log-linear prediction of the 100m winning time in R mailed to the list yesterday by David Smith, subject Revolutions Blog: July roundup? "A log-linear regression in R predicted the gold-winning Olympic 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds (it was actually 9.63 seconds): http://bit.ly/QfChUh" The original by Markus Gesmann can be found at http://lamages.blogspot.pt/2012/07/london-olympics-and-prediction-for-100m.html I've made the same, just changing the address to the 200m historical data, and the predicted time was 19.27. Usain Bolt has just made 19.32. If you want to ch...

...The Environmental Performance Index website uses R to rank countries by measures like environmental health and ecosystem vitality: http://bit.ly/QfCkiP A log-linear regression in R predicted the gold-winning Olympic 100m sprint time to be 9.68 seconds (it was actually 9.63 seconds): http://bit.ly/QfChUh Some R-related talks from the Revolution Analytics team and others at the 2012 JSM conference: http://bit.ly/QfCkiR Big vectors (with more than 2^31 elements) are coming to R: http://bit.ly/QfChUi R gets a somewhat oblique mention in the Finance section of the New York Times: http://bit.ly/QfCki...