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• If you have to use circles…

  Stats Chat is an interesting kiwi site—managed by the Department of Statistics of the University of Auckland—that centers around the…
  15 Feb, '12

• Revisiting homicide rates

  A pint of R plotted an interesting dataset: intentional homicides in South America. I thought the graphs were pretty but…
  11 Feb, '12

• Oracle’s strange understanding of R users

  After reading David Smith’s on the price of Oracle R Enterprise (actually free, but it requires Oracle Data Mining at…
  9 Feb, '12

• Early-February flotsam

  ༄> Mike Croucher at Walking Randomly points out an interesting difference in operator precedence for several mathematical packages to evaluate a…
  7 Feb, '12

• Rstudio and asreml working together in a mac

  December and January were crazy months, with a lot of travel and suddenly I found myself in February working in…
  6 Feb, '12

• Academic publication boycott

  The last few weeks there has been a number of researchers calling for, or supporting, a boycott against Elsevier; for…
  30 Jan, '12

• Mid-January flotsam: teaching edition

  ༄> I was thinking about new material that I will use for teaching this coming semester (starting the third week of…
  17 Jan, '12

• IPython

  I installed the latest version (0.12) of IPython from source in my mac, but forgot that I had a previous…
  12 Jan, '12

• R is a language

  A commenter on this blog reminded me of one of the frustrating aspects faced by newbies, not only to R…
  11 Jan, '12

• The world owes you nothing

  皿 Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
  10 Jan, '12