Evolving notes, images and sounds by Luis Apiolaza

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Flotsam 12: early June linkathon

A list of interesting R/Stats quickies to keep the mind distracted:

  • A long draft Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View by Cosma Shalizi, in which he uses R to drive home the message. Not your average elementary point of view.
  • Good notes by Frank Davenport on starting using R with data from a Geographic Information System (GIS). Read this so you get a general idea of how things fit together.
  • If you are in to maps, Omnia sunt Communia! provides many good tips on producing them using R.
  • Mark James Adams reminded us that Prediction ? Understanding, probably inspired by Dan Gianola‘s course on Whole Genome Prediction. He is a monster of Bayesian applications to genetic evaluation.
  • If you are in to data/learning visualization you have to watch Bret Victor’s presentation on Media for thinking the unthinkable. He is so far ahead what we normally do that it is embarrassing.
  • I follow mathematician Atabey Kaygun in twitter and since yesterday I’ve been avidly reading his coverage of the protests in Turkey. Surely there are more important things going on in the world than the latest R gossip.

I’m marking too many assignments right now to have enough time to write something more substantial. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though.

Flotsam 11: mostly on books

‘No estaba muerto, andaba the parranda’ as the song says. Although rather than partying it mostly has been reading, taking pictures and trying to learn how to record sounds. Here there are some things I’ve come across lately.

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Pythonic links

Before I forget: a few links about starting up in Python for scientific projects:

Now if we had a great Python library for linear mixed models life would be easier.

Mid-September flotsam

This is one of those times of the year: struggling to keep the head above the water, roughly one month before the last lecture of the semester. On top trying to squeeze trips, meetings and presentations in between while dealing with man flu.

Mid-August flotsam

Reached mid-semester point, with quite a few new lectures to prepare. Nothing extremely complicated but, as always, the tricky part is finding a way to make it meaningful and memorable. Sometimes, and this is one of those times, I sound like a broken record but I’m a bit obsessive about helping people to ‘get’ a topic.

Gratuitous picture: Lola, Lisbon, Portugal.
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