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The Crow Paradox

Although we can't tell individual crows apart (even experienced crow handlers have…

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IBM to acquire SPSS

Many news outlets are reporting today that IBM has announced that it…

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Nail-biting finish for Netflix Prize

30 days ago, BellKor Pragmatic Chaos submitted a prize-qualifying entry for the…

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Slides from OSCON

OSCON 2009 has been a blast so far, and I've really been…

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Scraping data from the Web with R

Sometimes the data we need isn't packaged up nicely into a simple…

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Counting with iterators

Ever wanted to do a loop in R over a million elements,…

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Improving the responsiveness of websites with R

Philip Jacob wanted to improve the responsiveness of the website for StyleFeeder.com…

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The evil bastard child of game theory and behavioral economics

Swoopo.com is an online auction site where you can buy things like…

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Thoughts on UseR! 2009

The fifth international conference for R users, UseR! 2009, has come and…

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Benford’s Law, Zipf’s Law and the Pareto Distribution

Over the past few weeks we've seen several examples of power-law distributions…

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