DavidMSmith

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Converting time zones in R: tips, tricks and pitfalls

When I'm adding events to the R Community Calendar, I can only…

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Interview with David Smith, REvolution Computing

Ajay Ohri at DecisionStats revently interviewed me about my background, this blog,…

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Because it’s Friday: How the media turns correlation into causation

Ever wondered how your carefully reasoned, nuanced paper containing an odds ratio…

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Find other R users on Twitter

Many R users on Twitter append their tweets with the hashtag #rstats,…

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Why Statistics is the next sexy profession

Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian, recently said, "The sexy job in the…

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Open-source on Wall Street

Wall Street and Technology reported in an article earlier this month that…

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What a real flu pandemic looks like

Junk Charts has a neat example of what we would today call…

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Careful with the S-word

Market researcher Tom Ewing offers some advice that applies equally well to…

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R Foundation clarifies position on package licenses

Robert Gentleman, on behalf of the R Foundation, issued today the following…

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Package Update Roundup: Apr 2009

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

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