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## another lottery coincidence

August 29, 2011
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$another lottery coincidence$

Once again, meaningless figures are published about a man who won the French lottery (Le Loto) for the second time. The reported probability of the event is indeed one chance out of 363 (US) trillions (i.e., billions in the metric system. or 1012)… This number is simply the square of which is the number of

## Slides of 10+ talks at R Users Groups

August 29, 2011
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Links to slides of 10+ talks at R Users Groups in Australia are provided below. Slides of the talks are downloadable at the links, including R codes if any. MelbURN: Melbourne Users of R Network: Experiences with using R in … Continue reading →

## Real-time data collection and analysis in class

August 28, 2011
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As September draws nearer, my mind inevitably turns away from my lofty (and largely unmet) summer research goals, and toward teaching.  This semester I will be trying out a teaching technique using live data collection and analysis as a tool to encourage student engagement.  The idea is based on the electronic polling technology known as

## SIGKDD 2011 Conference — Days 2/3/4 Summary

August 27, 2011
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<< My review of Day 1. I am summarizing all of the days together since each talk was short, and I was too exhausted to write a post after each day. Due to the broken-up schedule of the KDD sessions, I group everything together instead of switching back and forth among a dozen different topics. By far the most enjoyable...

## Le Monde puzzle [#737 re-read]

August 27, 2011
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As a coincidence, while I was waiting for the solution to puzzle #737 published this Friday in Le Monde, the delivery (wo)man forgot to include the weekend magazine and I had to buy it this morning with my baguette (as if anyone cares!). The solution is (y0,z0,w0)=(38,40,46) and…it does not work! The value of (x1,y1,z1,w1) is

## How Much of R is Written in R?

August 26, 2011
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My boss sent me an email (on my day off!) asking me just how much of R is written in the R language.  This is very simple if you use R and a Unix-like system.  It also gives me a good excuse to defend the title of this blog.  It’s librestats, not projecteulerstats, afterall. So

## 25+ more ways to bring data into R

August 26, 2011
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The rdatamarket post on the Revolutions blog and this post on Decision Stats reminded me about my list of Data APIs/feeds available as packages in R on Cross-Validated (which is a great site that you all should use).  Many of these packa...

## Quick labels within figures

August 26, 2011
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One of the coolest R packages I heard about at the useR! Conference: Toby Dylan Hocking‘s directlabels package for putting labels directly next to the relevant curves or point clouds in a figure. I think I first learned about this idea from Andrew Gelman: that a separate legend requires a lot of back-and-forth glances, so

## Le Monde puzzle [#737]

August 26, 2011
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The puzzle in the weekend edition of Le Monde this week can be expressed as follows: Consider four integer sequences (xn), (yn), (zn), and (wn), such that and, if u=(xn,yn,zn,wn), for i=1,…,4, if ui is not the maximum of u and otherwise. Find the first return time n (if any) such that xn=0. Find the value