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A statistical review of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman

November 11, 2013
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I failed to find Kahneman’s book in the economics section of the bookshop, so I had to ask where it was.  ”Oh, that’s in the psychology section.”  It should have also been in the statistics section. He states that his collaboration with Amos Tversky started with the question: Are humans good intuitive statisticians? The wrong The post A...

What’s in my Pocket? (Part II) – Analysis of Pocket App Article Tagging

November 10, 2013
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IntroductionYou know what's still awesome? Pocket.As I noted in an earlier post (oh god, was that really more than a year ago?!) I started using the Pocket application, previously known as Read It Later, in July of 2011 and it has changed my readi...

Hurricanes in South Carolina

November 10, 2013
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In a recent post, I discussed the occurrence of hurricanes in the North Atlantic basin. The data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, a member of the US federal government. The data spans a bit more than 150 years. In that post, I make the observation that the data supports a model wherein

Creating your Jekyll-Bootstrap powered blog for R blogging

November 9, 2013
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As you might have noticed, I recently decided to move Fellgernon Bit from Tumblr to GitHub. There are a couple of reasons why I made this change. I wanted a more professional-looking blog. There are not many R blogs on Tumblr, and well, long text posts are not really meant for Tumblr. Better code highlighting. I had enabled R code highlighting...

Generating functions

November 8, 2013
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$F(x)=1-e^{-x}/3$

Today, I wanted to publish a post on generating functions, based on discussions I had with Jean-Francois while having our coffee after lunch a couple of times already. The other reason is that I publish my post while my student just finished their Probability exam (and there were a few questions on generating functions). A short introduction (back on...

Working with hdf files in R – Example: Pathfinder SST data

November 8, 2013
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Following  a question that I posted on stackoverflow.com, I recieved the great advice to use the Bioconductor rhdf5 package to work with HDF5 files. The package is not located on CRAN, but can be sourced from the Bioconductor website: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")biocLite("rhdf5") Created by Pretty...

R jobs (September, October 2013)

November 5, 2013
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R-bloggers is offering an “R jobs” post, that will be published once every month (or other month). If you are interested in offering a job to be posted on r-bloggers, please e-mail me at: [email protected] (please write in the subject line the text “R job” so I could have easy e-mail filtering on it ). statistics. com Occasional part-time...

NYC R Programming Classes – starting this coming Sunday

November 5, 2013
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Guest post by Vivian Zhang, original post. You can sign up for our Sunday Intensive beginner level R classes at NYC Data Science Academy meetup page or email [email protected] for more info. Brief: The course (which will meet five Sundays) will start from the basics, introducing the building blocks used for programming in R and building intuition for writing clean and robust code....

Generating d3js Motion Charts from rCharts

November 4, 2013
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Remember Gapminder, the animated motion chart popularised by Hans Rosling in his TED Talks and Joy of Stats TV programme? Well it’s back on TV this week in Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population, a compelling piece of OU/BBC co-produced stats theatre featuring Hans Rosling, and a Pepper’s Ghost illusion brought into the digital