Three Free Books on R for Statistics
Avril Coghlan, a lecturer at University College Cork in Ireland, has written and made available for free three books ideal for…
Freakonomics and Your Data
In the August, 2005 issue of BusinessWeek, Michael Hopkins explored the best seller Freakonomics and it's authors' strategy for using…
Statistical Rules of Thumb, Part III: Always Visualize the Data
As I perused Statistical Rules of Thumb again, as I do from time to time, I came across this gem.…
The CIO Diaries – Bridging the Gap to LBOs
CIO -- “I am managing ten applications, eighty five virtual machines, four networks, twenty five IT projects and three data centers.…
The CEO Wants Analytics! Now What?
The Big Guy just read the latest popular business book. Now he wants a piece of the hot analytics-on-data action!…
Mixed-Effects Models in R with Quantum Forest
For anyone who wants to estimate linear or nonlinear mixed-effects models (aka random-effects models, hierarchical models or multilevel models) using the…
Data Mining Interview: Rob Hyndman
I recently discovered Cross Validated, a Q&A platform for statisticians and data miners. With Seth Rogers, Community Developer of Cross…
Your Statistical Result is Below .05: Now What?
When you get a statistical result, one too often immediately jumps to the conclusion that the finding “is statistically significant”…
The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
It’s 2011. Analytics is hot! Does that mean we analysts are hot, too? Well, no. “Hot” isn’t a term…
