A great interview on the Simply Statistics blog with Google's Nick Chamandy, Phd in Statistics.  Explains that he mainly uses R among other tools to perform his work at Google.  Also of note is the active data science community within Google ...

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No doubt those that read my blog know that the tools I use to do my Industrial Engineering and Operations Research work heavily rely on the open source side of software.  That is why I try to support as many open source projects such as COIN-OR, G...

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According to recent news (dallasnews.com) there is a new release of a public national database for wrongful convictions.  There are plenty of details in the public list including Age, Race, and how the conviction was overturned.  According to...

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Apparently former Facebook intern, Paul Butler,  graphic of the Facebook social network graph is being used for Facebook's IPO.  The social network graphic is featured on Page 7 of the IPO filing.  His graphic was featured on mashable an...

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I came across an interesting SAS macro that was used for visualizing log odds relationships of data.  This type of chart is helpful for visualizing the relationship between a binary dependent variable and a continuous independent variable.  I...

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Recently I was working on a data visualization project.  I wanted to visualize summary statistics by category of the data.  Specifically I wanted to see a simple dispersion of data with confidence intervals for each category of data. R i...

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Recently I was working on a data visualization project.  I wanted to visualize summary statistics by category of the data.  Specifically I wanted to see a simple dispersion of data with confidence intervals for each category of data. R i...

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I was reading an article from Datamation on 70 Open Source Replacements for Small Business when I noticed a glaring omission.  Where are the software applications for Operations Research and Analytics?  So here is my best addendum to this art...

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I was reading an article from Datamation on 70 Open Source Replacements for Small Business when I noticed a glaring omission.  Where are the software applications for Operations Research and Analytics?  So here is my best addendum to this art...

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I'm a big fan of the Google Summer of Code.  It brings great projects together with a learning opportunity for students.  Once again the R Project was selected to be part of the Google Summer of Code in 2011.  Some other notable mathemat...

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