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An idiot learns Bayesian analysis: Part 2
A week ago, I wrote a bit about my personal journey to come to grips with Bayesian inference. I referred to the epiphany that when we're talking about Bayesian analysis, what we're talking about- in a...
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Another skewed normal distribution
At the CLRS last year, Glenn Meyers talked about something very near to my heart: a skewed normal distribution. In loss reserving (and I'm sure, many other contexts) standard linear regression is less...
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Triangle Open Data Day 2014
A rare live blog post today. I'm writing this from Triangle Open Data Day 2014. This will basically be a page of links that I'll try to get around to later. GIS resources: QGIS – an open source GIS...
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Watching Africa from a plane
I wrote this 8 or 9 days ago, while on a plane and am just now getting around to posting it. It's either 7:12 PM Friday or 2:12 AM Saturday. I'm somewhere over the Mediterranean, having just passed...
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Recursive assignment
Here’s yet another example where I just need to read the help files. Before I go on, I should add my own notion as to why that’s not always easy to do. On loads of message boards, you’ll see people...
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Stuff I’ve gotten horribly wrong
I'm the first (I hope) to admit when I've gotten something wrong. I like to think I'm humble enough to realize that there are limits to my knowledge. Actually, humility doesn't enter into it. Every day...
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An Idiot Learns Bayesian Analysis: Part 3
A week or so ago, the grand Magus over at lamages.blogspot.com/ published a great, quick thought exercise taken from Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Here are the particulars of the...
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Visualizing the History of Epidemics
I really like National Geographic. Their magazine is great, their television documentaries are done well and they helped give me a lifelong love of maps. They generate very good information and help...
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Makefiles and RMarkdown
Quite some time ago (October 2013, according to Amazon), I bought a copy of “Reproducible Research with R and RStudio” by Christopher Gandrud. And it was awesome. Since then, I’ve been using knitr and...
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