August 2013

Statisticians: an endangered species?

August 1, 2013 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert Every month I look forward to getting my copy of AMSTATNEWS, the monthly magazine of the American Statistical Association, in the mail. This July, I was both pleased and bemused by ASA President Marie Davidian’s article Aren’t We Data Science?. I was pleased to see ... [Read more...]

Using Kickstarter data to predict Ubuntu Edge’s success

August 1, 2013 | tobias

Thursday 1 August 2013 - 14:53 Earlier this week we published an article with an analysis of the Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and the outlook was bleak. Donations had slowed to a crawl, and Canonical's $32 million goal appeared to be little more than a pipe dream. Yes, readers replied, donations had died ... [Read more...]

An example of monkey patching a package

August 1, 2013 | R2D2

An example of monkey patching a package 2013-07-11 Source Scope This article is about R package development. Motivation In the same spirit that my previous post A dirty hack for importing packages that use Depends , I wanted to use an earlier version of the excellent gdata package in one ... [Read more...]
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