Using R in Astronomy
Alastair Sanderson of the University of Birmingham has a fantastic set of pages for astronomers using R. For astronomers thinking…
When is a zero not a zero?
Answer: when it's in floating point.No, this isn't my entry for the "least funny joke ever" competition. It's the answer…
Copulas and Wall Street
Wired Magazine has an article this week on the credit crisis: Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street.…
Improve R with Google’s Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code is a global program, funded by Google, that provides funding for students to write code…
Reminder: DSC 2009 abstract submissions due March 15
Peter Dalgaard reminds us that abstracts for DSC 2009 are due by March 15.
R, the FDA, and clinical trials
There's been an interesting discussion recently on the R Project group on LinkedIn (sub. req.) on the topic of using…
Detecting latent variables… in rock music
Here's a neat example of data analysis and visualization (sadly, not using R) with an interesting application: detecting rock songs…
Five Attributes for the Data Quality Analyst
In my years working in data quality I have seen many skills and attributes of what a good data quality…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or…
PARTNERS 2009: Accelerating Insight
Every year, our annual Teradata PARTNERS gathering brings together the sharpest minds in data warehousing and enterprise analytics. For five days,…
