Google, hard disc drives and R
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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