This will be my last post for a while (I promise!).  After today I’ll be taking a rest from all this, until at least the start of April.  Hopefully all this USS stuff will be resolved by then, though! In yesterday’s post I showed a graph, followed by ...

Graphing my excitement for the IBM Think conference using R Studio hosted on IBM Cloud based Data Science Experience.  Graphical coordinates provided by the coordinator site.  

Simulation studies are used in a wide range of areas from risk management, to epidemiology, and of course in statistics. The MonteCarlo package provides tools to automatize the design of these kind of simulation studies in R. The user only has to specify the random experiment he or she wants ...

Cross-posted with permission from Omni Analytics Innovative Technologies Initiative (OAITI) Certain ingredients are often staples of particular world cuisines. The use of hard cheeses in Italian cooking, and the use of masalas in Indian cooking are two particularly well-known examples. We sought out to discover what ingredients are most uniquely ...

In response to my previous post, “Latest USS proposal: Who would lose most?“, someone asked me about doing the same calculation for the USS JNC-supported proposals from January.  For a summary of those January proposals and my comments about their fairness, please see my earlier post “USS pension scheme and ...

In this post you will learn: How to create expressions that have mixed (1) strings, (2) expressions, & (3) numbers How to pass in values as variables to an expression I wanted to name this post “Ahhhhhhhhhhh #$@%&!!!!” but SEO isn’t … Continue reading →

PubMed Commons, the NCBI’s experiment in comments for PubMed articles, has been discontinued. Thoroughly too, with all traces of it expunged from the NCBI website. Last time I wrote about the service, I concluded “all it needs now is more active users, more comments per user and a real ...

       Last March 8, millions of women in more than 170 countries around the world joined street protests calling for "a society free of sexist oppression, exploitation and violence". Spanish strike was one of the most numerous, where around 5.3 million women joined the strike. Today, I will use some data (download) regarding the ...

Some days I see R as an eclectic programming language preferred by scientists. “Programming languages as people.” From Leftover Salad (David Marino). Other days I see it more like the following. “Statistical tools as cars.” Shared previously by Darren L. Dhaly and brought to my attention by post by Dimitri ...