[R] Google, hard disc drives and R

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Ben Bolker wrote:

> 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 ...

For example Mondrian via RServe?

> 
>   Ben Bolker
> 
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