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The Senate, ObamaCare, the NYT, and R

The New York Times on Wednesday published an editorial by Andrew Gelman,…

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Because it’s Friday: Minard goes Mainstream

Edward Tufte has spent much of his career evangelizing the benefits of…

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Floating-point errors, explained

Back in March, we looked at the reasons behind apparent arithmetic "mistakes"…

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Geographic maps in R

The maps library for R is a powerful tool for creating maps…

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REvolution R coming to Ubuntu

REvolution Computing's enhanced distribution of R, REvolution R, has been available for…

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Tips on surviving R

John Mount from Win-Vector LLC gave a very interesting and entertaining talk…

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Training students on mega-scale data

In a New York Times article (sub. req.) published on the weekend,…

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Examples of animations in R

A picture may tell a thousand words, but what stories can you…

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Package Update Roundup: Sep 2009

This is a list of new or updated packages that were released…

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Because it’s Friday: Carl Sagan sings the blueshift

Composer John Boswell takes footage of the late Carl Sagan's acclaimed Cosmos…

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