In the US, it's typical to borrow a fairly substantial portion of the cost of a new house from a bank. The cost of these loans, the mortgage rate, varies over time depending on what the financial wizards see in their crystal balls. What this means over time is that ...

Idling through the LeanPub documentation last night, I noticed that they support the ability to sell digital extras, such as bundled code files or datafiles. Along with the base book sold at one price, additional extras can be bundled into packages alongside the original book and sold at another (higher) ...

In imaging, we deal with multivariate data, like in array form with several spectral bands. And trying to come up with interpretation across correlations of its dimensions is very challenging, if not impossible. For example let's recall the number of s...

In imaging, we deal with multivariate data, like in array form with several spectral bands. And trying to come up with interpretation across correlations of its dimensions is very challenging, if not impossible. For example let's recall the number of s...

I mentioned yesterday that my partools package is now on CRAN.  A number of people have expressed interest in the Snowdoop section, but in this post I want to call attention to the dbs() debugging tool in the package, useful for debugging code written for the portion of R’s ...

Recently, my colleague and fellow blogger Alyssa Frazee accepted a job at Stripe. All of us at JHU Biostat are happy for her, yet sad to see her go. While perusing Stripe’s website, I found the About page, where each employee has a photo of themselves. I’ve been ...