Rich voters, poor voters, and the 2008 election
Andrew Gelman, guest-blogging at fivethirtyeight.com, uses survey data from before the 2008 US presidential election to ask the question: which…
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…
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,…
General Electric ‘s breach of the spirit and letter of integrity
Way back in the summer of 2004 , I was a junior analyst at General Electric’s consumer finance back office.…
Weathering the Stormy Economy
Here is a conference you may want to visit. At first glance it may look like one of those self-help…
