Tikz Introduction

September 27th, 2011

The pgf drawing package for LaTeX provides facilities for drawing simple of complicated pictures within a LaTeX document. There are many options available within the package and in this post we consider some of the basics to get up and running. Read the rest of this entry »

Cricket All Round Performances

September 19th, 2011

In cricket a player who can perform well with both the bat and bowl is a great asset for any team and across the history of international cricket there have been a number of cricketers that hall into this bracket. Read the rest of this entry »

Colours in R

September 19th, 2011

There is a handy webpage which provides a chart of colours available in R. The chart is also available in pdf from the webpage.

Scatter plots with images

September 4th, 2011

Edward Tufte has written extensively on the presentation of data covering good and bad practice. He has made a number of suggestions for adaptations of regularly used graph types to assist with the interpretation and understanding of data. Read the rest of this entry »