The week in stats (May 19th edition)
Which Team Do You Cheer For? An N.B.A. Fan Map by The New York Times Are you a self-taught “scientist programmer”? Here is why people think code written by people like you is ugly. As always, R...
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Alvaro Galindo reviews Social Media Mining with R by by Nathan Danneman and Richard Heinmann. Some popular articles on R tip and tricks are: R has some sharp corners by Win-Vector LLC, Sample...
View ArticleThe week in stats (June 9th edition)
Like the plots above? Learn how to create these in R from Freakonometrics’ new post called Box plot, Fisher’s style. If you are on the job market, Tal Galili from R bloggers has compiled 6 new R jobs...
View ArticleThe week in stats (June 16th edition)
Writing functions is an important part of programming, and in order to write proper functions you need to know how to debug when your functions aren’t working. Slawa Rokicki, PhD student at Harvard,...
View ArticleThe week in stats (June 23rd edition)
If you are on the job market, Tal Galili from R bloggers has compiled 3 new R jobs for seekers like you. Text mining is currently a live issue in data analysis. Enoromus text data resourses on the...
View ArticleThe week in stats (June 2nd edition)
What people do with their degrees. A sequence of 9 courses on Data Science will start on Coursera on 2 June and 7 July 2014, to be lectured by Professors of Johns Hopkins University. The courses are...
View ArticleThe week in stats (June 30th edition)
Normal Distribution vs. Paranormal Distribution Professor Ramon van Handel of Princeton University posts his lecture notes on Probability in High Dimension. Everday Anayltics shares his experience as a...
View ArticleGuide for new users posted
If you are a first-timer here at StatisticsBlog.com, or if you’re looking for a list of Greatest Hits, check out the shiny new Start Here page.
View ArticleVisualising random variables, Terence Tao style
Recently mathematician Terence Tao posted some ruminations on how to visualize the different values a random variable could take. He created some basic animated loops that cycled through some samples...
View ArticleThe epistemology crisis
We have a crisis of epistemology. A tsunami of bad tools, bad ideas, biased actors, and unresolved problems. Among our many issues, we have: Predictions treated as facts, and inherently fuzzy...
View ArticleAndrew Gelman and other interviews
In addition to updating this blog once every few years, I have a more regular podcast, The Filter. While not about just statistics, readers of this blog might find the following episodes, among others,...
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