In a previous post I explained how to install RStudio, a popular integrated development environment for the R programming language. Open up RStudio for the first time and it might look like …
Survey Says: Big Data, We Have Some Work to Do.
I recently read, per the tweeted recommendation of Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by …
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Excel Conditional Formatting for Statistical Significance
This summer I am taking a course on measurement theory ... which is as difficult as it sounds. But one of the complications of the course has little to do with sophisticated statistics or management …
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Downloading Python
The best subject to teach is a subject that you apply yourself daily yourself. And the best thing to learn is something that you'll actually use daily. My mix of data tools has shifted substantially …
Is Data the Best Disinfectant?
Louis Brandeis, writing about transparency, said that "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." You want to get to the bottom of things? Then measure, report, expose.Man does nothing to …
Is Data Distracting Us From Science?
I've often joked that data science needs a new emphasis. We tend to over-emphasize the "data" half and forget the "science" half. The scale and scope of data is new, but science is not. Are we …
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