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Data Visualization using R. Audit Technology Group Mar 22 th , 2013. DV in the News – Gun Owners Put on Map. DV in the News – Gun Owners Retaliated. DV in the News – Home Ownership. What is R?. From Wikipedia
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Data Visualization using R Audit Technology Group Mar 22th, 2013
What is R? • From Wikipedia • R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. • The R language is widely used among statisticians for developing statistical software and data analysis. • R is an implementation of the S programming language created by John Chambers while at Bell Labs. • R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
More about R • Some interesting facts • R is now developed by the R Development Core Team, of which Chambers is a member • R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly as a play on the name of S. • R is part of the GNU project. The source code for the R software environment is written primarily in C, Fortran, and R. • R is freely available under the GNU General Public License, and pre-compiled binary versions are provided for various operating systems.
What should R Concern me as an Auditor? • Good question! • R uses a command line interface; however, several graphical user interfaces are available for use with R. • R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, including linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, and others. • According to Rexer's Annual Data Miner Survey in 2010, R has become the data mining tool used by more data miners (43%) than any other.
More Importantly • Last but not least • Another strength of R is static graphics, which can produce publication-quality graphs, including mathematical symbols. Dynamic and interactive graphics are available through additional packages. • In other words, if you are serious about data visualization, using only Excel graphing features is not enough. • At the end of the day, it is FREE! All you need is filing a deviation form with your supervisor’s approval, and some weekends spent in front of your computer screen.
R Heat Map is Perfect for Risk Analysis • Heat Map is a very useful tool for Risk Analysis • But Excel does not have built-in Heat Map feature • You can mimic a Heat Map in Excel using Bubble Chart but it is a labor intensive process with less than satisfactory result • Or you can learn a little VBA and write your own code to create Heat Maps in Excel, once again, not a completely painless proposition
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