Chris and I started this blog as an outlet for the work we were already doing every day: writing code and trying to avoid forgetting how we wrote it. To that end, gist.github.com is an extremely useful resource, and this blog allows us to add a little ... [Read more...]

Here, both for the sake of posterity, as well as example, is an embedded Gist that describes how to embed a Gist in Tumblr: https://gist.github.com/1395926 [Read more...]

As I’ve discussed here before, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap, and perhaps most importantly, who are the people who work in these fields? Along with ... [Read more...]

Yesterday morning at 7 am I was outside walking the dog before getting a taxi to go to the airport to catch a plane to travel from Christchurch to Blenheim (now I can breath after reading without a pause). It … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I tend not to upgrade R very often—running from 6 months to 1 year behind in version numbers—because I had to reinstall all packages: a real pain. A quick search shows that people have managed to come up with good … Continue reading → [Read more...]