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• 04 May 2017 » Some default and debt restructuring data

• 24 Apr 2017 » Science really is non-partisan: facts and skepticism annoy everybody

• 06 Apr 2017 » Redirect

• 06 Apr 2017 » La matrícula, el costo del crédito y las huelgas en la UPR

• 03 Apr 2017 » The Importance of Interactive Data Analysis for Data-Driven Discovery

• 16 Mar 2017 » The levels of data science class

• 08 Mar 2017 » When do we need interpretability?

• 07 Mar 2017 » Model building with time series data

• 02 Mar 2017 » Reproducibility and replicability is a glossy science now so watch out for the hype

• 23 Feb 2017 » Learning about Machine Learning with an Earthquake Example

• 20 Feb 2017 » My Podcasting Setup

• 15 Feb 2017 » Data Scientists Clashing at Hedge Funds

• 13 Feb 2017 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 32 - You Have to Reinvent the Wheel a Few Times

• 01 Feb 2017 » Reproducible Research Needs Some Limiting Principles

• 31 Jan 2017 » Turning data into numbers

• 26 Jan 2017 » New class - Data App Prototyping for Public Health and Beyond

• 23 Jan 2017 » User Experience and Value in Products - What Regression and Surrogate Variables can Teach Us

• 20 Jan 2017 » An example that isn’t that artificial or intelligent

• 19 Jan 2017 » What is artificial intelligence? A three part definition

• 18 Jan 2017 » Got a data app idea? Apply to get it prototyped by the JHU DSL!

• 17 Jan 2017 » Interview with Al Sommer - Effort Report Episode 23

• 09 Jan 2017 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 30 - Philately and Numismatology

• 29 Dec 2016 » Some things I’ve found help reduce my stress around science

• 20 Dec 2016 » A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2016

• 16 Dec 2016 » The four eras of data

• 15 Dec 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 28 - Writing is a lot Harder than Just Talking

• 09 Dec 2016 » What is going on with math education in the US?

• 30 Nov 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 27 - Special Guest Amelia McNamara

• 17 Nov 2016 » Help choose the Leek group color palette

• 11 Nov 2016 » Open letter to my lab: I am not “moving to Canada”

• 09 Nov 2016 » Not all forecasters got it wrong: Nate Silver does it again (again)

• 08 Nov 2016 » Data scientist on a chromebook take two

• 28 Oct 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 25 - How Exactly Do You Pronounce SQL?

• 26 Oct 2016 » Are Datasets the New Server Rooms?

• 20 Oct 2016 » Distributed Masochism as a Pedagogical Model

• 16 Oct 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 24 - 50 Minutes of Blathering

• 14 Oct 2016 » Should I make a chatbot or a better FAQ?

• 12 Oct 2016 » The Dangers of Weighting Up a Sample

• 03 Oct 2016 » Information and VC Investing

• 03 Oct 2016 » papr - it’s like tinder, but for academic preprints

• 01 Oct 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 23 - Special Guest Walt Hickey

• 29 Sep 2016 » Statistical vitriol

• 28 Sep 2016 » The Mystery of Palantir Continues

• 27 Sep 2016 » Thinking like a statistician: this is not the election for progressives to vote third party

• 26 Sep 2016 » Facebook and left censoring

• 19 Sep 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 22 - Number 1 Side Project

• 19 Sep 2016 » Mastering Software Development in R

• 07 Sep 2016 » Interview With a Data Sucker

• 06 Sep 2016 » A Short Guide for Students Interested in a Statistics PhD Program

• 26 Aug 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 21 - This Might be the Future!

• 26 Aug 2016 » How to create a free distributed data collection “app” with R and Google Sheets

• 24 Aug 2016 » Interview with COPSS award winner Nicolai Meinshausen.

• 24 Aug 2016 » A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science

• 30 Jul 2016 » A meta list of what to do at JSM 2016

• 20 Jul 2016 » The relativity of raw data

• 18 Jul 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 18 - Divide by n-1, or n-2, or Whatever

• 11 Jul 2016 » Tuesday update

• 05 Jul 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 18 - Back on Planet Earth

• 28 Jun 2016 » Tuesday Update

• 28 Jun 2016 » A Year at Stack Overflow

• 14 Jun 2016 » Ultimate AI battle - Apple vs. Google

• 13 Jun 2016 » Good list of good books

• 09 Jun 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 17 - Diurnal High Variance

• 03 Jun 2016 » Defining success - Four secrets of a successful data science experiment

• 31 May 2016 » Sometimes the biggest challenge is applying what we already know

• 24 May 2016 » Sometimes there’s friction for a reason

• 23 May 2016 » Update On Theranos

• 23 May 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 16 - The Silicon Valley Episode

• 18 May 2016 » What is software engineering for data science?

• 13 May 2016 » Disseminating reproducible research is fundamentally a language and communication problem

• 11 May 2016 » The Real Lesson for Data Science That is Demonstrated by Palantir’s Struggles

• 10 May 2016 » A means not an end - building a social media presence as a junior scientist

• 05 May 2016 » Time Series Analysis in Biomedical Science - What You Really Need to Know

• 04 May 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 15 - Spinning Up Logistics

• 27 Apr 2016 » High school student builds interactive R class for the intimidated with the JHU DSL

• 27 Apr 2016 » An update on Georgia Tech’s MOOC-based CS degree

• 21 Apr 2016 » Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs + Paperpile)

• 20 Apr 2016 » As a data analyst the best data repositories are the ones with the least features

• 11 Apr 2016 » Junior scientists - you don’t have to publish in open access journals to be an open scientist.

• 08 Apr 2016 » A Natural Curiosity of How Things Work, Even If You’re Not Responsible For Them

• 07 Apr 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 13 - It’s Good that Someone is Thinking About Us

• 05 Apr 2016 » Companies are Countries, Academia is Europe

• 31 Mar 2016 » New Feather Format for Data Frames

• 30 Mar 2016 » How to create an AI startup - convince some humans to be your training set

• 26 Mar 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 12 - The New Bayesian vs. Frequentist

• 24 Mar 2016 » The future of biostatistics

• 21 Mar 2016 » The Evolution of a Data Scientist

• 14 Mar 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 11 - Start and Stop

• 02 Mar 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 10 - It’s All Counterexamples

• 26 Feb 2016 » Preprints are great, but post publication peer review isn’t ready for prime time

• 23 Feb 2016 » Spreadsheets: The Original Analytics Dashboard

• 17 Feb 2016 » Non-tidy data

• 16 Feb 2016 » When it comes to science - its the economy stupid.

• 12 Feb 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 9 - Spreadsheet Drama

• 11 Feb 2016 » Why I don’t use ggplot2

• 10 Feb 2016 » Data handcuffs

• 09 Feb 2016 » Leek group guide to reading scientific papers

• 01 Feb 2016 » A menagerie of messed up data analyses and how to avoid them

• 26 Jan 2016 » Exactly how risky is breathing?

• 25 Jan 2016 » On research parasites and internet mobs - let’s try to solve the real problem.

• 24 Jan 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 8 - Snow Day

• 21 Jan 2016 » Parallel BLAS in R

• 14 Jan 2016 » Profile of Hilary Parker

• 12 Jan 2016 » Not So Standard Deviations Episode 7 - Statistical Royalty

• 11 Jan 2016 » Jeff, Roger and Brian Caffo are doing a Reddit AMA at 3pm EST Today

• 21 Dec 2015 » A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2015

• 18 Dec 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 6 - Google is the New Fisher

• 11 Dec 2015 » Instead of research on reproducibility, just do reproducible research

• 09 Dec 2015 » By opposing tracking well-meaning educators are hurting disadvantaged kids

• 03 Dec 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 5 - IRL Roger is Totally With It

• 01 Dec 2015 » Thinking like a statistician: the importance of investigator-initiated grants

• 25 Nov 2015 » A thanksgiving dplyr Rubik’s cube puzzle for you

• 24 Nov 2015 » 20 years of Data Science: from Music to Genomics

• 19 Nov 2015 » Some Links Related to Randomized Controlled Trials for Policymaking

• 17 Nov 2015 » Given the history of medicine, why are randomized trials not used for social policy?

• 16 Nov 2015 » So you are getting crushed on the internet? The new normal for academics.

• 10 Nov 2015 » Prediction Markets for Science: What Problem Do They Solve?

• 09 Nov 2015 » Biostatistics: It’s not what you think it is

• 07 Nov 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 4 - A Gajillion Time Series

• 06 Nov 2015 » How I decide when to trust an R package

• 30 Oct 2015 » The Statistics Identity Crisis: Am I a Data Scientist

• 30 Oct 2015 » Faculty/postdoc job opportunities in genomics across Johns Hopkins

• 29 Oct 2015 » The statistics identity crisis: am I really a data scientist?

• 28 Oct 2015 » Discussion of the Theranos Controversy with Elizabeth Matsui

• 24 Oct 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 3 - Gilmore Girls

• 20 Oct 2015 » We need a statistically rigorous and scientifically meaningful definition of replication

• 16 Oct 2015 » Theranos runs head first into the realities of diagnostic testing

• 14 Oct 2015 » Minimal R Package Check List

• 03 Oct 2015 » Profile of Data Scientist Shannon Cebron

• 02 Oct 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 2 - We Got it Under 40 Minutes

• 01 Oct 2015 » A glass half full interpretation of the replicability of psychological science

• 30 Sep 2015 » Apple Music’s Moment of Truth

• 29 Sep 2015 » We Used Data to Improve our HarvardX Courses: New Versions Start Oct 15

• 23 Sep 2015 » Data Analysis for the Life Sciences - a book completely written in R markdown

• 18 Sep 2015 » The Leek group guide to writing your first paper

• 17 Sep 2015 » Not So Standard Deviations: The Podcast

• 25 Aug 2015 » Interview with COPSS award Winner John Storey

• 24 Aug 2015 » The Next National Library of Medicine Director Can Help Define the Future of Data Science

• 21 Aug 2015 » Interview with Sherri Rose and Laura Hatfield

• 20 Aug 2015 » If you ask different questions you get different answers - one more way science isn’t broken it is just really hard

• 19 Aug 2015 » P > 0.05? I can make any p-value statistically significant with adaptive FDR procedures

• 12 Aug 2015 » UCLA Statistics 2015 Commencement Address

• 12 Aug 2015 » Correlation is not a measure of reproducibility

• 10 Aug 2015 » rafalib package now on CRAN

• 09 Aug 2015 » Interested in analyzing images of brains? Get started with open access data.

• 09 Aug 2015 » Statistical Theory is our “Write Once, Run Anywhere”

• 30 Jul 2015 » Autonomous killing machines won’t look like the Terminator…and that is why they are so scary

• 28 Jul 2015 » Announcing the JHU Data Science Hackathon 2015

• 24 Jul 2015 » stringsAsFactors: An unauthorized biography

• 17 Jul 2015 » The statistics department Moneyball opportunity

• 10 Jul 2015 » The Mozilla Fellowship for Science

• 08 Jul 2015 » JHU, UMD researchers are getting a really big Big Data center

• 03 Jul 2015 » The Massive Future of Statistics Education

• 02 Jul 2015 » Looks like this R thing might be for real

• 01 Jul 2015 » How Airbnb built a data science team

• 24 Jun 2015 » How public relations and the media are distorting science

• 16 Jun 2015 » Interview at Leanpub

• 10 Jun 2015 » Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization Captsone 2 Top Performers

• 09 Jun 2015 » Batch effects are everywhere! Deflategate edition

• 08 Jun 2015 » I’m a data scientist - mind if I do surgery on your heart?

• 04 Jun 2015 » Interview with Class Central

• 01 Jun 2015 » Interview with Chris Wiggins, chief data scientist at the New York Times

• 28 May 2015 » Science is a calling and a career, here is a career planning guide for students and postdocs

• 20 May 2015 » Is it species or is it batch? They are confounded, so we can’t know

• 18 May 2015 » Residual expertise - or why scientists are amateurs at most of science

• 08 May 2015 » The tyranny of the idea in science

• 07 May 2015 » Mendelian randomization inspires a randomized trial design for multiple drugs simultaneously

• 01 May 2015 » Rafa’s citations above replacement in statistics journals is crazy high.

• 30 Apr 2015 » Figuring Out Learning Objectives the Hard Way

• 29 Apr 2015 » Data analysis subcultures

• 13 Apr 2015 » Why is there so much university administration? We kind of asked for it.

• 13 Apr 2015 » Genomics Case Studies Online Courses Start in Two Weeks (4/27)

• 09 Apr 2015 » A blessing of dimensionality often observed in high-dimensional data sets

• 09 Apr 2015 » How to Get Ahead in Academia

• 02 Apr 2015 » Why You Need to Study Statistics

• 26 Mar 2015 » Teaser trailer for the Genomic Data Science Specialization on Coursera

• 24 Mar 2015 » Introduction to Bioconductor HarvardX MOOC starts this Monday March 30

• 19 Mar 2015 » A surprisingly tricky issue when using genomic signatures for personalized medicine

• 18 Mar 2015 » A simple (and fair) way all statistics journals could drive up their impact factor.

• 17 Mar 2015 » Data science done well looks easy - and that is a big problem for data scientists

• 14 Mar 2015 » π day special: How to use Bioconductor to find empirical evidence in support of π being a normal number

• 13 Mar 2015 » De-weaponizing reproducibility

• 03 Mar 2015 » The elements of data analytic style - so much for a soft launch

• 02 Mar 2015 » Advanced Statistics for the Life Sciences MOOC Launches Today

• 18 Feb 2015 » Navigating Big Data Careers with a Statistics PhD

• 13 Feb 2015 » Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra MOOC starts this Monday Feb 16

• 12 Feb 2015 » Is Reproducibility as Effective as Disclosure? Let’s Hope Not.

• 09 Feb 2015 » The trouble with evaluating anything

• 05 Feb 2015 » Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization Top Performers

• 05 Feb 2015 » Early data on knowledge units - atoms of statistical education

• 04 Feb 2015 » Knowledge units - the atoms of statistical education

• 30 Jan 2015 » Precision medicine may never be very precise - but it may be good for public health

• 26 Jan 2015 » Reproducible Research Course Companion

• 21 Jan 2015 » Data as an antidote to aggressive overconfidence

• 20 Jan 2015 » Gorging ourselves on “free” health care: Harvard’s dilemma

• 16 Jan 2015 » If you were going to write a paper about the false discovery rate you should have done it in 2002

• 15 Jan 2015 » How to find the science paper behind a headline when the link is missing

• 12 Jan 2015 » Statistics and R for the Life Sciences: New HarvardX course starts January 19

• 07 Jan 2015 » Beast mode parenting as shown by my Fitbit data

• 04 Jan 2015 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/4/15)

• 31 Dec 2014 » Ugh … so close to one million page views for 2014

• 22 Dec 2014 » On how meetings and conference calls are disruptive to a data scientist

• 21 Dec 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/21/14)

• 19 Dec 2014 » Interview with Emily Oster

• 18 Dec 2014 » Repost: Statistical illiteracy may lead to parents panicking about Autism

• 17 Dec 2014 » A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2014

• 14 Dec 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/14/14)

• 12 Dec 2014 » Kobe, data says stop blaming your teammates

• 08 Dec 2014 » Genéticamente, no hay tal cosa como la raza puertorriqueña

• 07 Dec 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/7/14)

• 05 Dec 2014 » Interview with Cole Trapnell of UW Genome Sciences

• 04 Dec 2014 » Repost: A deterministic statistical machine

• 02 Dec 2014 » Thinking Like a Statistician: Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

• 25 Nov 2014 » HarvardX Biomedical Data Science Open Online Training Curriculum launches on January 19

• 12 Nov 2014 » Data Science Students Predict the Midterm Election Results

• 10 Nov 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/9/14)

• 05 Nov 2014 » Time varying causality in n=1 experiments with applications to newborn care

• 04 Nov 2014 » 538 election forecasts made simple

• 02 Nov 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/2/14)

• 28 Oct 2014 » Why I support statisticians and their resistance to hype

• 26 Oct 2014 » Return of the sunday links! (10/26/14)

• 24 Oct 2014 » An interactive visualization to teach about the curse of dimensionality

• 22 Oct 2014 » Vote on simply statistics new logo design

• 20 Oct 2014 » Thinking like a statistician: don’t judge a society by its internet comments

• 17 Oct 2014 » Bayes Rule in an animated gif

• 16 Oct 2014 » Creating the field of evidence based data analysis - do people know what a p-value looks like?

• 15 Oct 2014 » Dear Laboratory Scientists: Welcome to My World

• 13 Oct 2014 » I declare the Bayesian vs. Frequentist debate over for data scientists

• 09 Oct 2014 » Data science can’t be point and click

• 08 Oct 2014 » The Leek group guide to genomics papers

• 06 Oct 2014 » An economic model for peer review

• 02 Oct 2014 » The Drake index for academics

• 30 Sep 2014 » You think P-values are bad? I say show me the data.

• 22 Sep 2014 » Unbundling the educational package

• 15 Sep 2014 » Applied Statisticians: people want to learn what we do. Let’s teach them.

• 09 Sep 2014 » A non-comprehensive list of awesome female data people on Twitter

• 04 Sep 2014 » Why the three biggest positive contributions to reproducible research are the iPython Notebook, knitr, and Galaxy

• 20 Aug 2014 » A (very) brief review of published human subjects research conducted with social media companies

• 19 Aug 2014 » SwiftKey and Johns Hopkins partner for Data Science Specialization Capstone

• 18 Aug 2014 » Interview with COPSS Award winner Martin Wainwright

• 15 Aug 2014 » Crowdsourcing resources for the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization

• 13 Aug 2014 » swirl and the little data scientist’s predicament

• 12 Aug 2014 » The Leek group guide to giving talks

• 11 Aug 2014 » Stop saying “Scientists discover…” instead say, “Prof. Doe’s team discovers…”

• 07 Aug 2014 » It’s like Tinder, but for peer review.

• 06 Aug 2014 » If you like A/B testing here are some other Biostatistics ideas you may like

• 05 Aug 2014 » Do we need institutional review boards for human subjects research conducted by big web companies?

• 29 Jul 2014 » Introducing people to R: 14 years and counting

• 25 Jul 2014 » Academic statisticians: there is no shame in developing statistical solutions that solve just one problem

• 16 Jul 2014 » Jan de Leeuw owns the Internet

• 30 Jun 2014 » Piketty in R markdown - we need some help from the crowd

• 25 Jun 2014 » Privacy as a function of sample size

• 24 Jun 2014 » New book on implementing reproducible research

• 23 Jun 2014 » The difference between data hype and data hope

• 18 Jun 2014 » Heads up if you are going to submit to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute

• 16 Jun 2014 » The future of academic publishing is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed

• 13 Jun 2014 » What I do when I get a new data set as told through tweets

• 06 Jun 2014 » The Real Reason Reproducible Research is Important

• 03 Jun 2014 » Post-Piketty Lessons

• 28 May 2014 » The Big in Big Data relates to importance not size

• 22 May 2014 » 10 things statistics taught us about big data analysis

• 07 May 2014 » Why big data is in trouble: they forgot about applied statistics

• 05 May 2014 » JHU Data Science: More is More

• 30 Apr 2014 » Confession: I sometimes enjoy reading the fake journal/conference spam

• 22 Apr 2014 » Picking a (bio)statistics thesis topic for real world impact and transferable skills

• 17 Apr 2014 » Correlation does not imply causation (parental involvement edition)

• 10 Apr 2014 » The #rOpenSci hackathon #ropenhack

• 07 Apr 2014 » Writing good software can have more impact than publishing in high impact journals for genomic statisticians

• 01 Apr 2014 » This is how an important scientific debate is being used to stop EPA regulation

• 31 Mar 2014 » Data Analysis for Genomics edX Course

• 26 Mar 2014 » A non-comprehensive comparison of prominent data science programs on cost and frequency.

• 24 Mar 2014 » The fact that data analysts base their conclusions on data does not mean they ignore experts

• 20 Mar 2014 » The 80/20 rule of statistical methods development

• 19 Mar 2014 » The time traveler’s challenge.

• 14 Mar 2014 » ENAR is in Baltimore - Here’s What To Do

• 14 Mar 2014 » How to use Bioconductor to find empirical evidence in support of π being a normal number

• 12 Mar 2014 » Oh no, the Leekasso….

• 07 Mar 2014 » Per capita GDP versus years since women received right to vote

• 05 Mar 2014 » PLoS One, I have an idea for what to do with all your profits: buy hard drives

• 26 Feb 2014 » Data Science is Hard, But So is Talking

• 21 Feb 2014 » Here’s why the scientific publishing system can never be “fixed”

• 19 Feb 2014 » Why do we love R so much?

• 18 Feb 2014 » k-means clustering in a GIF

• 17 Feb 2014 » Repost: Ronald Fisher is one of the few scientists with a legit claim to most influential scientist ever

• 14 Feb 2014 » On the scalability of statistical procedures: why the p-value bashers just don’t get it.

• 13 Feb 2014 » loess explained in a GIF

• 10 Feb 2014 » Monday data/statistics link roundup (2/10/14)

• 05 Feb 2014 » Just a thought on peer reviewing - I can’t help myself.

• 04 Feb 2014 » My Online Course Development Workflow

• 03 Feb 2014 » The three tables for genomics collaborations

• 29 Jan 2014 » Not teaching computing and statistics in our public schools will make upward mobility even harder

• 28 Jan 2014 » Announcing the Release of swirl 2.0

• 28 Jan 2014 » Marie Curie says stop hating on quilt plots already.

• 21 Jan 2014 » The Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization on Coursera

• 19 Jan 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/19/2014)

• 17 Jan 2014 » Missing not at random data makes some Facebook users feel sad

• 16 Jan 2014 » edge.org asks famous scientists what scientific concept to throw out & they say statistics

• 13 Jan 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/12/2014)

• 08 Jan 2014 » The top 10 predictor takes on the debiased Lasso - still the champ!

• 07 Jan 2014 » Preparing for tenure track job interviews

• 05 Jan 2014 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/5/14)

• 04 Jan 2014 » Repost: Prediction: the Lasso vs. just using the top 10 predictors

• 03 Jan 2014 » The Supreme Court takes on Pollution Source Apportionment…and Realizes It’s Hard

• 30 Dec 2013 » Some things R can do you might not be aware of

• 20 Dec 2013 » A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did this year.

• 16 Dec 2013 » A summary of the evidence that most published research is false

• 15 Dec 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/15/13)

• 13 Dec 2013 » Simply Statistics Interview with Michael Eisen, Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (Part 2/2)

• 12 Dec 2013 » The key word in “Data Science” is not Data, it is Science

• 12 Dec 2013 » Simply Statistics Interview with Michael Eisen, Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (Part 1/2)

• 11 Dec 2013 » Are MOOC’s fundamentally flawed? Or is it a problem with statistical literacy?

• 05 Dec 2013 » NYC crime rates by year/commissioner

• 04 Dec 2013 » Advice for students on the academic job market

• 03 Dec 2013 » On the future of the textbook

• 02 Dec 2013 » Academics should not feel guilty for maximizing their potential by leaving their homeland

• 01 Dec 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/2/13)

• 26 Nov 2013 » Statistical zealots

• 22 Nov 2013 » Simply Statistics interview with Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera

• 21 Nov 2013 » You must be at least 20 years old for this job

• 21 Nov 2013 » Future of Statistics take home messages. #futureofstats

• 18 Nov 2013 » Feeling optimistic after the Future of the Statistical Sciences Workshop

• 16 Nov 2013 » What should statistics do about massive open online courses?

• 15 Nov 2013 » What’s the future of inference?

• 14 Nov 2013 » The Leek group guide to sharing data with a data analyst to speed collaboration

• 13 Nov 2013 » Original source code for Apple II DOS

• 12 Nov 2013 » Survival analysis for hard drives

• 12 Nov 2013 » Future of Statistical Sciences Workshop is happening right now #FSSW2013

• 11 Nov 2013 » Apple’s Touch ID and a worldwide lesson in sensitivity and specificity

• 11 Nov 2013 » Out with Big Data, in with Hyperdata

• 05 Nov 2013 » How to Host a Conference on Google Hangouts on Air

• 03 Nov 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/3/13)

• 30 Oct 2013 » Unconference on the Future of Statistics (Live Stream) #futureofstats

• 29 Oct 2013 » How to participate in #futureofstats Unconference

• 29 Oct 2013 » Tukey Talks Turkey #futureofstats

• 28 Oct 2013 » Simply Statistics Future of Statistics Speakers - Two Truths, One Lie #futureofstats

• 27 Oct 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/27/13)

• 25 Oct 2013 » (Back to) The Future of Statistical Software #futureofstats

• 23 Oct 2013 » The Leek group guide to reviewing scientific papers

• 22 Oct 2013 » Blog posts that impact real science - software review and GTEX

• 22 Oct 2013 » PubMed commons is launching

• 21 Oct 2013 » Why are the best relievers not used when they are most needed?

• 18 Oct 2013 » Platforms and Integration in Statistical Research (Part 2/2)

• 17 Oct 2013 » The @fivethirtyeight effect - watching @walthickey gain Twitter followers in real time

• 15 Oct 2013 » Platforms and Integration in Statistical Research (Part 1/2)

• 15 Oct 2013 » Teaching least squares to a 5th grader by calibrating a programmable robot

• 14 Oct 2013 » A general audience friendly explanation for why Lars Peter Hansen won the Nobel Prize

• 13 Oct 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/13/13)

• 11 Oct 2013 » Why do we still teach a semester of trigonometry? How about engineering instead?

• 10 Oct 2013 » Cancelled NIH study sections: a subtle, yet disastrous, effect of the government shutdown

• 09 Oct 2013 » The Care and Feeding of Your Scientist Collaborator

• 08 Oct 2013 » The Care and Feeding of the Biostatistician

• 07 Oct 2013 » The Leek group policy for developing sustainable R packages

• 06 Oct 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/6/2013)

• 04 Oct 2013 » Repost: Finding good collaborators

• 30 Sep 2013 » Statistical Ode to Mariano Rivera

• 29 Sep 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (9/29/13)

• 27 Sep 2013 » Announcing Statistics with Interactive R Learning Software Environment

• 26 Sep 2013 » How could code review discourage code disclosure? Reviewers with motivation.

• 25 Sep 2013 » Is most science false? The titans weigh in.

• 24 Sep 2013 » How I view an academic talk: like a sports game

• 23 Sep 2013 » The limiting reagent for big data is often small, well-curated data

• 17 Sep 2013 » Announcing the Simply Statistics Unconference on the Future of Statistics #futureofstats

• 16 Sep 2013 » Data Analysis in the top 9 courses in lifetime enrollment at Coursera!

• 13 Sep 2013 » So you’re moving to Baltimore

• 12 Sep 2013 » Help needed for establishing an ASA statistical genetics and genomics section

• 05 Sep 2013 » Implementing Evidence-based Data Analysis: Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research (Part 3)

• 04 Sep 2013 » Repost: A proposal for a really fast statistics journal

• 01 Sep 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (9/1/13)

• 30 Aug 2013 » AAAS S&T Fellows for Big Data and Analytics

• 29 Aug 2013 » The return of the stat - Computing for Data Analysis & Data Analysis back on Coursera!

• 28 Aug 2013 » Evidence-based Data Analysis: Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research (Part 2)

• 27 Aug 2013 » Interview with Ani Eloyan and Betsy Ogburn

• 26 Aug 2013 » Statistics meme: Sad p-value bear

• 24 Aug 2013 » Did Faulty Software Shut Down the NASDAQ?

• 23 Aug 2013 » Stratifying PISA scores by poverty rates suggests imitating Finland is not necessarily the way to go for US schools

• 23 Aug 2013 » If you are near DC/Baltimore, come see Jeff talk about Coursera

• 22 Aug 2013 » Chris Lane, U.S. tourism boycotts, and large relative risks on small probabilities

• 21 Aug 2013 » Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research: Part 1

• 20 Aug 2013 » A couple of requests for the @Statistics2013 future of statistics workshop

• 13 Aug 2013 » WANTED: Neuro-quants

• 09 Aug 2013 » Embarrassing typos reveal the dangers of the lonely data analyst

• 08 Aug 2013 » Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician

• 07 Aug 2013 » Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Wednesday

• 06 Aug 2013 » Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Tuesday

• 05 Aug 2013 » Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Monday

• 04 Aug 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/4/13)

• 02 Aug 2013 » That causal inference came out of nowhere

• 01 Aug 2013 » The ROC curves of science

• 31 Jul 2013 » The researcher degrees of freedom - recipe tradeoff in data analysis

• 28 Jul 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/28/13)

• 26 Jul 2013 » Statistics takes center stage in the Independent

• 22 Jul 2013 » What are the 5 most influential statistics papers of 2000-2010?

• 21 Jul 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/21/2013)

• 19 Jul 2013 » The “failure” of MOOCs and the ecological fallacy

• 19 Jul 2013 » Defending clinical trials

• 17 Jul 2013 » Name 5 statisticians, now name 5 young statisticians

• 15 Jul 2013 » Yes, Clinical Trials Work

• 14 Jul 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/14/2013)

• 10 Jul 2013 » What are the iconic data graphs of the past 10 years?

• 09 Jul 2013 » Repost: Preventing Errors Through Reproducibility

• 08 Jul 2013 » Use R! 2014 to be at UCLA

• 04 Jul 2013 » Fourth of July data/statistics link roundup (7/4/2013)

• 03 Jul 2013 » Repost: The 5 Most Critical Statistical Concepts

• 01 Jul 2013 » Measuring the importance of data privacy: embarrassment and cost

• 27 Jun 2013 » What is the Best Way to Analyze Data?

• 26 Jun 2013 » Art from Data

• 25 Jun 2013 » Doing Statistical Research

• 24 Jun 2013 » Does fraud depend on my philosophy?

• 23 Jun 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/23/13)

• 21 Jun 2013 » Interview with Miriah Meyer - Microsoft Faculty Fellow and Visualization Expert

• 20 Jun 2013 » Google’s brainteasers (that don’t work) and Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Data Analysis

• 16 Jun 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/16/13 - Father’s day edition!)

• 14 Jun 2013 » The vast majority of statistical analysis is not performed by statisticians

• 13 Jun 2013 » False discovery rate regression (cc NSA’s PRISM)

• 12 Jun 2013 » Personalized medicine is primarily a population-health intervention

• 11 Jun 2013 » Why not have a “future of the field” session at a conference with only young speakers?

• 02 Jun 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/2/13)

• 29 May 2013 » What statistics should do about big data: problem forward not solution backward

• 19 May 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/19/2013)

• 17 May 2013 » When does replication reveal fraud?

• 15 May 2013 » The bright future of applied statistics

• 12 May 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/12/2013, Mother’s Day!)

• 08 May 2013 » A Shiny web app to find out how much medical procedures cost in your state.

• 06 May 2013 » Why the current over-pessimism about science is the perfect confirmation bias vehicle and we should proceed rationally

• 06 May 2013 » Talking about MOOCs on MPT Direct Connection

• 02 May 2013 » Reproducibility at Nature

• 30 Apr 2013 » Reproducibility and reciprocity

• 28 Apr 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/28/2013)

• 26 Apr 2013 » Mindlessly normalizing genomics data is bad - but ignoring unwanted variability can be worse

• 23 Apr 2013 » Interview at Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

• 21 Apr 2013 » Nevins-Potti, Reinhart-Rogoff

• 19 Apr 2013 » Podcast #7: Reinhart, Rogoff, Reproducibility

• 16 Apr 2013 » I wish economists made better plots

• 15 Apr 2013 » Data science only poses a threat to (bio)statistics if we don’t adapt

• 14 Apr 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/14/2013)

• 12 Apr 2013 » Great scientist - statistics = lots of failed experiments

• 10 Apr 2013 » Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill

• 08 Apr 2013 » NIH is looking for an Associate Director for Data Science: Statisticians should consider applying

• 02 Apr 2013 » Introducing the healthvis R package - one line D3 graphics with R

• 26 Mar 2013 » An instructor’s thoughts on peer-review for data analysis in Coursera

• 25 Mar 2013 » Podcast #6: Data Analysis MOOC Post-mortem

• 24 Mar 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/24/2013)

• 21 Mar 2013 » Youtube should check its checksums

• 19 Mar 2013 » Call for papers for a special issue of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

• 17 Mar 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/17/13)

• 14 Mar 2013 » Postdoctoral fellow position in reproducible research

• 13 Mar 2013 » Here’s my #ENAR2013 Wednesday schedule

• 12 Mar 2013 » If I were at #ENAR2013 today, here’s where I’d go

• 10 Mar 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/10/13)

• 08 Mar 2013 » Send me student/postdoc blogs in statistics and computational biology

• 06 Mar 2013 » The importance of simulating the extremes

• 04 Mar 2013 » Big Data - Context = Bad

• 03 Mar 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/3/2013)

• 27 Feb 2013 » Please save the unsolicited R01s

• 25 Feb 2013 » Big data: Giving people what they want

• 24 Feb 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/24/2013)

• 18 Feb 2013 » Tesla vs. NYT: Do the Data Really Tell All?

• 17 Feb 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/17/2013)

• 15 Feb 2013 » Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google

• 13 Feb 2013 » I’m a young scientist and sequestration will hurt me

• 10 Feb 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/10/2013)

• 06 Feb 2013 » Issues with reproducibility at scale on Coursera

• 03 Feb 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/3/2013)

• 31 Jan 2013 » paste0 is statistical computing’s most influential contribution of the 21st century

• 28 Jan 2013 » Data supports claim that if Kobe stops ball hogging the Lakers will win more

• 27 Jan 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/27/2013)

• 25 Jan 2013 » My advanced methods class is now being live-tweeted

• 24 Jan 2013 » Why I disagree with Andrew Gelman’s critique of my paper about the rate of false discoveries in the medical literature

• 23 Jan 2013 » Statisticians and computer scientists - if there is no code, there is no paper

• 20 Jan 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/20/2013)

• 18 Jan 2013 » Comparing online and in-class outcomes

• 16 Jan 2013 » Review of R Graphics Cookbook by Winston Chang

• 16 Jan 2013 » R package meme

• 14 Jan 2013 » Welcome to the Smog-ocalypse

• 13 Jan 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/13/2013)

• 11 Jan 2013 » NSF should understand that Statistics is not Mathematics

• 10 Jan 2013 » The landscape of data analysis

• 08 Jan 2013 » By introducing competition open online education will improve teaching at top universities

• 06 Jan 2013 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/6/2013)

• 04 Jan 2013 » Does NIH fund innovative work? Does Nature care about publishing accurate articles?

• 03 Jan 2013 » The scientific reasons it is not helpful to study the Newtown shooter’s DNA

• 02 Jan 2013 » Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?

• 01 Jan 2013 » Happy 2013: The International Year of Statistics

• 31 Dec 2012 » What makes a good data scientist?

• 30 Dec 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/30/12)

• 24 Dec 2012 » Make a Christmas Tree in R with random ornaments/presents

• 23 Dec 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup 12/23/12

• 20 Dec 2012 » The NIH peer review system is still the best at identifying innovative biomedical investigators

• 19 Dec 2012 » Rafa interviewed about statistical genomics

• 18 Dec 2012 » The value of re-analysis

• 17 Dec 2012 » Should the Cox Proportional Hazards model get the Nobel Prize in Medicine?

• 16 Dec 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/16/12)

• 14 Dec 2012 » Computing for Data Analysis Returns

• 10 Dec 2012 » Joe Blitzstein’s free online stat course helps put a critical satellite in orbit

• 09 Dec 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/9/12)

• 08 Dec 2012 » Dropping the Stick in Data Analysis

• 05 Dec 2012 » Email is a to-do list made by other people - can someone make it more efficient?!

• 04 Dec 2012 » Advice for students on the academic job market (2013 edition)

• 03 Dec 2012 » Data analysis acquisition “worst deal ever”?

• 02 Dec 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/2/12)

• 30 Nov 2012 » Statistical illiteracy may lead to parents panicking about Autism.

• 27 Nov 2012 » I give up, I am embracing pie charts

• 26 Nov 2012 » The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data

• 25 Nov 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/25/2012)

• 24 Nov 2012 » Computer scientists discover statistics and find it useful

• 21 Nov 2012 » Developing the New York Times Visual Election Outcome Explorer

• 20 Nov 2012 » A grand experiment in science funding

• 19 Nov 2012 » Podcast #5: Coursera Debrief

• 18 Nov 2012 » Welcome to Simply Statistics 2.0

• 18 Nov 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (11/18/12)

• 16 Nov 2012 » Logo Contest Winner

• 15 Nov 2012 » Reproducible Research: With Us or Against Us?

• 09 Nov 2012 » Interview with Tom Louis - New Chief Scientist at the Census Bureau

• 08 Nov 2012 » Some academic thoughts on the poll aggregators

• 07 Nov 2012 » Nate Silver does it again! Will pundits finally accept defeat?

• 05 Nov 2012 » If we truly want to foster collaboration, we need to rethink the “independence” criteria during promotion

• 04 Nov 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (11/4/12)

• 04 Nov 2012 » Elite education for the masses

• 03 Nov 2012 » The Year of the MOOC

• 31 Oct 2012 » Microsoft Seeks an Edge in Analyzing Big Data

• 30 Oct 2012 » On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

• 29 Oct 2012 » Computing for Data Analysis (Simply Statistics Edition)

• 28 Oct 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/28/12)

• 26 Oct 2012 » I love those first discussions about a new research project

• 23 Oct 2012 » Let’s make the Joint Statistical Mettings modular

• 22 Oct 2012 » A statistical project bleg (urgent-ish)

• 21 Oct 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/21/12)

• 20 Oct 2012 » Minnesota clarifies: Free online ed is OK

• 20 Oct 2012 » Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota

• 19 Oct 2012 » Simply Statistics Podcast #4: Interview with Rebecca Nugent

• 18 Oct 2012 » Statistics isn’t math but statistics can produce math

• 17 Oct 2012 » Comparing Hospitals

• 17 Oct 2012 » Johns Hopkins Grad Anthony Damico Shows How To

• 15 Oct 2012 » A statistician loves the #insurancepoll…now how do we analyze it?

• 14 Oct 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/14/12)

• 10 Oct 2012 » What’s wrong with the predicting h-index paper.

• 08 Oct 2012 » Why we should continue publishing peer-reviewed papers

• 07 Oct 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/7/12)

• 07 Oct 2012 » Fraud in the Scientific Literature

• 05 Oct 2012 » Not just one statistics interview…John McGready is the Jon Stewart of statistics

• 04 Oct 2012 » Statistics project ideas for students (part 2)

• 04 Oct 2012 » Should we stop publishing peer-reviewed papers?

• 03 Oct 2012 » This is an awesome paper all students in statistics should read

• 03 Oct 2012 » 2-D author lists

• 02 Oct 2012 » The more statistics blogs the better

• 28 Sep 2012 » John McGready interviews Jeff Leek

• 27 Sep 2012 » John McGready interviews Roger Peng

• 27 Sep 2012 » Simply statistics logo contest

• 26 Sep 2012 » Pro-tips for graduate students (Part 3)

• 26 Sep 2012 » NBC Unpacks Trove of Data From Olympics

• 24 Sep 2012 » Computing for Data Analysis starts today!

• 23 Sep 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/23/12)

• 21 Sep 2012 » Prediction contest

• 20 Sep 2012 » In data science - it’s the problem, stupid!

• 20 Sep 2012 » Every professor is a startup

• 18 Sep 2012 » Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences

• 18 Sep 2012 » Chinese Company to Acquire DNA Sequencing Firm

• 16 Sep 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/16/12)

• 15 Sep 2012 » Statistical analysis suggests the Washington Nationals were wrong to shut down Stephen Strasburg

• 14 Sep 2012 » The statistical method made me lie

• 14 Sep 2012 » After Our Interview With Steven Salzberg Someone

• 13 Sep 2012 » An experimental foundation for statistics

• 13 Sep 2012 » Coursera introduces three courses in statistics

• 10 Sep 2012 » The pebbles of academia

• 09 Sep 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/9/12)

• 08 Sep 2012 » Big Data in Your Blood

• 08 Sep 2012 » The Weatherman Is Not a Moron

• 07 Sep 2012 » Top-down versus bottom-up science: data analysis edition

• 07 Sep 2012 » Simply Statistics Podcast #3: Interview with Steven Salzberg

• 06 Sep 2012 » Simply Statistics Podcast #2

• 05 Sep 2012 » How long should the next podcast be?

• 03 Sep 2012 » Online universities blossom in Asia

• 02 Sep 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/2/2012)

• 01 Sep 2012 » Drought Extends, Crops Wither

• 31 Aug 2012 » Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to National Survey

• 31 Aug 2012 » Court Blocks E.P.A. Rule on Cross-State Pollution

• 30 Aug 2012 » Court Upholds Rule on Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions

• 30 Aug 2012 » Green: Will Emissions Disclosure Mean Investor Pressure on Polluters?

• 29 Aug 2012 » I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World

• 29 Aug 2012 » Increasing the cost of data analysis

• 28 Aug 2012 » Genes Now Tell Doctors Secrets They Can’t Utter

• 28 Aug 2012 » Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing

• 27 Aug 2012 » A deterministic statistical machine

• 26 Aug 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/26/12)

• 25 Aug 2012 » Judge Rules Poker Is A Game Of Skill, Not Luck

• 24 Aug 2012 » Simply Statistics Podcast #1

• 23 Aug 2012 » Science Exchange starts Reproducibility Initiative

• 22 Aug 2012 » Data Startups from Y Combinator Demo Day

• 22 Aug 2012 » Harvard chooses statistician to lead Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

• 21 Aug 2012 » NSF recognizes math and statistics are not the same thing…kind of

• 21 Aug 2012 » Recommended updates from Google Scholar

• 17 Aug 2012 » Interview with C. Titus Brown - Computational biologist and open access champion

• 14 Aug 2012 » Statistics/statisticians need better marketing

• 13 Aug 2012 » Johns Hopkins University Professor Louis Named to Lead Census Bureau Research Directorate

• 13 Aug 2012 » Big-Data Investing Gets Its Own Supergroup

• 12 Aug 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/12/12)

• 12 Aug 2012 » How Big Data Became So Big

• 11 Aug 2012 » When dealing with poop, it’s best to just get your hands dirty

• 10 Aug 2012 » Why we are teaching massive open online courses (MOOCs) in R/statistics for Coursera

• 09 Aug 2012 » A non-exhaustive list of things I have failed to accomplish

• 08 Aug 2012 » On the relative importance of mathematical abstraction in graduate statistical education

• 07 Aug 2012 » My worst nightmare…

• 06 Aug 2012 » In which Brian debates abstraction with T-Bone

• 06 Aug 2012 » Samuel Kou wins COPSS Award

• 31 Jul 2012 » NYC and Columbia to Create Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering

• 31 Jul 2012 » If I were at #JSM2012 today, here’s where I’d go.

• 30 Jul 2012 » Why I’m Staying in Academia

• 29 Jul 2012 » Statistician (@cocteau) to show journalists how it’s done

• 29 Jul 2012 » In Sliding Internet Stocks, Some Hear Echo of 2000

• 28 Jul 2012 » Tweet up #JSM2012

• 28 Jul 2012 » Predictive analytics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter

• 28 Jul 2012 » When Picking a C.E.O. Is More Random Than Wise

• 27 Jul 2012 » Congress to Examine Data Sellers

• 27 Jul 2012 » How important is abstract thinking for graduate students in statistics?

• 26 Jul 2012 » Smartphones, Big Data Help Fix Boston’s Potholes

• 26 Jul 2012 » Online education: many academics are missing the point

• 26 Jul 2012 » Voters Say They Are Wary of Ads Made Just for Them

• 25 Jul 2012 » Buy your own analytics startup for $15,000 (at least as of now)

• 25 Jul 2012 » Really Big Objects Coming to R

• 24 Jul 2012 » A Contest for Sequencing Genomes Has Its First Entry in Ion Torrent

• 24 Jul 2012 » Proof by example and letters of recommendation

• 24 Jul 2012 » I.B.M. Is No Longer a Tech Bellwether (It’s too busy doing statistics)

• 23 Jul 2012 » Facebook’s Real Big Data Problem

• 23 Jul 2012 » Medalball: Moneyball for the olympics

• 23 Jul 2012 » We used, you know, that statistics thingy

• 22 Jul 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (7/22/12)

• 21 Jul 2012 » Big Data on Campus

• 21 Jul 2012 » Risks in Big Data Attract Big Law Firms

• 20 Jul 2012 » Interview with Lauren Talbot - Quantitative analyst for the NYC Financial Crime Task Force

• 19 Jul 2012 » Help me find the good JSM talks

• 19 Jul 2012 » Big data is worth nothing without big science

• 18 Jul 2012 » Top Universities Test the Online Appeal of Free

• 18 Jul 2012 » A closer look at data suggests Johns Hopkins is still the #1 US hospital

• 18 Jul 2012 » Johns Hopkins Coursera Statistics Courses

• 17 Jul 2012 » Universities Reshaping Education on the Web

• 17 Jul 2012 » Free Statistics Courses on Coursera

• 15 Jul 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (7/15/12)

• 15 Jul 2012 » Bits: Betaworks Buys What’s Left of Social News Site Digg

• 14 Jul 2012 » Bits: Mobile App Developers Scoop Up Vast Amounts of Data, Reports Say

• 13 Jul 2012 » GDP Figures in China are for “reference” only

• 13 Jul 2012 » This Is Not About Statistics But Its About

• 12 Jul 2012 » What is the most important code you write?

• 12 Jul 2012 » Statistical Reasoning on iTunes U

• 11 Jul 2012 » My worst (recent) experience with peer review

• 11 Jul 2012 » How Does the Film Industry Actually Make Money?

• 09 Jul 2012 » A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley

• 09 Jul 2012 » Skepticism+Ideas+Grit

• 04 Jul 2012 » The power of power

• 03 Jul 2012 » Replication and validation in -omics studies - just as important as reproducibility

• 02 Jul 2012 » Computing and Sustainability: What Can Be Done?

• 02 Jul 2012 » Meet the Skeptics: Why Some Doubt Biomedical Models - and What it Takes to Win Them Over

• 01 Jul 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/1)

• 29 Jun 2012 » Obamacare is not going to solve the health care crisis, but a new initiative, led by a statistician, may help

• 28 Jun 2012 » Motivating statistical projects

• 27 Jun 2012 » The price of skepticism

• 27 Jun 2012 » Follow up on “Statistics and the Science Club”

• 26 Jun 2012 » The problem with small big data

• 26 Jun 2012 » Hilary Mason: From Tiny Links, Big Insights

• 25 Jun 2012 » The Evolution of Music

• 25 Jun 2012 » A specific suggestion to help recruit/retain women faculty at Hopkins

• 24 Jun 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/24)

• 22 Jun 2012 » Statistics and the Science Club

• 20 Jun 2012 » Pro Tips for Grad Students in Statistics/Biostatistics (Part 2)

• 19 Jun 2012 » E.P.A. Casts New Soot Standard as Easily Met

• 18 Jun 2012 » Pro Tips for Grad Students in Statistics/Biostatistics (Part 1)

• 17 Jun 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/17)

• 15 Jun 2012 » Statisticians, ASA, and Big Data

• 12 Jun 2012 » Poison gas or…air pollution?

• 12 Jun 2012 » Big Data Needs May Create Thousands Of Tech Jobs

• 12 Jun 2012 » Green: E.P.A. Soot Rules Expected This Week

• 11 Jun 2012 » Chris Volinsky knows where you are

• 11 Jun 2012 » Getting a grant…or a startup

• 10 Jun 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/10)

• 05 Jun 2012 » China Asks Embassies to Stop Measuring Air Pollution

• 04 Jun 2012 » How Big Data Gets Real

• 01 Jun 2012 » Interview with Amanda Cox - Graphics Editor at the New York Times

• 31 May 2012 » Writing software for someone else

• 30 May 2012 » Why “no one reads the statistics literature anymore”

• 29 May 2012 » View my Statistics for Genomics lectures on Youtube and ask questions on facebook/twitter

• 28 May 2012 » Schlep blindness in statistics

• 27 May 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/27)

• 24 May 2012 » “How do we evaluate statisticians working in genomics? Why don’t they publish in stats journals?” Here is my answer

• 20 May 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/20)

• 16 May 2012 » The West Wing Was Always A Favorite Show Of Mine

• 16 May 2012 » Health by numbers: A statistician’s challenge

• 14 May 2012 » Facebook Needs to Turn Data Into Investor Gold

• 14 May 2012 » Computational biologist blogger saves computer science department

• 13 May 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/13)

• 11 May 2012 » Interview with Hadley Wickham - Developer of ggplot2

• 10 May 2012 » What are the products of data analysis?

• 09 May 2012 » DealBook: Glaxo to Make Hostile Bid for Human Genome Sciences

• 08 May 2012 » Data analysis competition combines statistics with speed

• 07 May 2012 » How do you know if someone is great at data analysis?

• 06 May 2012 » Illumina stays independent, for now

• 05 May 2012 » UCLA Data Fest 2012

• 04 May 2012 » New National Academy of Sciences Members

• 04 May 2012 » Hammer On The Importance Of Statistics Or As I

• 02 May 2012 » Just like regular communism, dongle communism has failed

• 02 May 2012 » GE’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Big Data

• 01 May 2012 » Sample mix-ups in datasets from large studies are more common than you think

• 30 Apr 2012 » A disappointing response from @NatureMagazine about folks with statistical skills

• 29 Apr 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/29)

• 27 Apr 2012 » People in positions of power that don’t understand statistics are a big problem for genomics

• 26 Apr 2012 » Nature is hiring a data editor…how will they make sense of the data?

• 25 Apr 2012 » How do I know if my figure is too complicated?

• 24 Apr 2012 » On the future of personalized medicine

• 22 Apr 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/22)

• 18 Apr 2012 » Replication, psychology, and big science

• 16 Apr 2012 » Roche: Illumina Is No Apple

• 15 Apr 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/15)

• 13 Apr 2012 » Interview with Drew Conway - Author of “Machine Learning for Hackers”

• 12 Apr 2012 » The Problem with Universities

• 11 Apr 2012 » Statistics is not math…

• 10 Apr 2012 » Evolution, Evolved

• 09 Apr 2012 » What is a major revision?

• 09 Apr 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/8)

• 05 Apr 2012 » Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited

• 04 Apr 2012 » Epigenetics: Marked for success

• 03 Apr 2012 » ENAR Meeting

• 30 Mar 2012 » R 2.15.0 is released

• 30 Mar 2012 » New U.S. Research Will Aim at Flood of Digital Data

• 29 Mar 2012 » Big Data Meeting at AAAS

• 29 Mar 2012 » Roche Raises Illumina Bid to $51, Seeking Faster Deal

• 27 Mar 2012 » Justices Send Back Gene Case

• 26 Mar 2012 » Supreme court vacates ruling on BRCA gene patent!

• 26 Mar 2012 » R and the little data scientist’s predicament

• 25 Mar 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/25)

• 25 Mar 2012 » Some thoughts from Keith Baggerly on the recently released IOM report on translational omics

• 23 Mar 2012 » This graph shows that President Obama’s proposed budget treats the NIH even worse than G.W. Bush - Sign the petition to increase NIH funding!

• 22 Mar 2012 » Big Data for the Rest of Us, in One Start-Up

• 21 Mar 2012 » More commentary on Mayo v. Prometheus

• 20 Mar 2012 » Laws of Nature and the Law of Patents: Supreme Court Rejects Patents for Correlations

• 20 Mar 2012 » Supreme court unanimously rules against personalized medicine patent!

• 19 Mar 2012 » Interview with Amy Heineike - Director of Mathematics at Quid

• 18 Mar 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/18)

• 16 Mar 2012 » Peter Norvig on the “Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”

• 14 Mar 2012 » A proposal for a really fast statistics journal

• 13 Mar 2012 » Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

• 12 Mar 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (3/11)

• 12 Mar 2012 » Answers in Medicine Sometimes Lie in Luck

• 11 Mar 2012 » Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances

• 10 Mar 2012 » IBM’s Watson Gets Wall Street Job After ‘Jeopardy’ Win

• 09 Mar 2012 » Mission Control, Built for Cities

• 08 Mar 2012 » A plot of my citations in Google Scholar vs. Web of Science

• 07 Mar 2012 » R.A. Fisher is the most influential scientist ever

• 06 Mar 2012 » Are banks being sidelined by retailers’ data collection?

• 05 Mar 2012 » Characteristics of my favorite statistics talks

• 04 Mar 2012 » DealBook: Roche Extends Deadline for Illumina Offer

• 04 Mar 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/4)

• 03 Mar 2012 » True Innovation

• 02 Mar 2012 » Confronting a Law Of Limits

• 02 Mar 2012 » An essay on why programmers need to learn statistics

• 01 Mar 2012 » A cool profile of a human rights statistician

• 29 Feb 2012 » The case for open computer programs

• 29 Feb 2012 » Statistics project ideas for students

• 29 Feb 2012 » Gulf on Open Access to Federally Financed Research

• 28 Feb 2012 » Duke Taking New Steps to Safeguard Research Integrity

• 27 Feb 2012 » The Duke Saga Starter Set

• 27 Feb 2012 » Graham & Dodd’s Security Analysis: Moneyball for…Money

• 25 Feb 2012 » ‘WaterBillWoman’ pestered city for years over faulty bills

• 23 Feb 2012 » Prediction: the Lasso vs. just using the top 10 predictors

• 23 Feb 2012 » Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices

• 22 Feb 2012 » Professional statisticians agree: the knicks should start Steve Novak over Carmelo Anthony

• 22 Feb 2012 » Air Pollution Linked to Heart and Brain Risks

• 21 Feb 2012 » Interracial Couples Who Make the Most Money

• 21 Feb 2012 » Scientists Find New Dangers in Tiny but Pervasive Particles in Air Pollution

• 20 Feb 2012 » I don’t think it means what ESPN thinks it means

• 20 Feb 2012 » 60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked

• 20 Feb 2012 » Company Unveils DNA Sequencing Device Meant to Be Portable, Disposable and Cheap

• 16 Feb 2012 » How Companies Learn Your Secrets

• 16 Feb 2012 » I.B.M.: Big Data, Bigger Patterns

• 15 Feb 2012 » A Flat Budget for NIH in 2013 - ScienceInsider

• 15 Feb 2012 » Harvard’s Stat 110 is now a course on iTunes

• 14 Feb 2012 » Mathematicians Organize Boycott of a Publisher

• 14 Feb 2012 » Mortimer Spiegelman Award: Call for Nominations. Deadline is April 1, 2012

• 13 Feb 2012 » The Duke Clinical Trials Saga: What Really Happened

• 13 Feb 2012 » Duke Clinical Trials Saga On 60 Minutes First

• 13 Feb 2012 » At MSNBC, a Professor as TV Host

• 12 Feb 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (2/12)

• 12 Feb 2012 » The Age of Big Data

• 11 Feb 2012 » Peter Thiel on Peer Review/Science

• 11 Feb 2012 » Data says Jeremy Lin is for real

• 10 Feb 2012 » Duke Saga on 60 Minutes this Sunday

• 09 Feb 2012 » An example of how sending a paper to a statistics journal can get you scooped

• 08 Feb 2012 » Statisticians and Clinicians: Collaborations Based on Mutual Respect

• 08 Feb 2012 » DealBook: Illumina Formally Rejects Roche’s Takeover Bid

• 07 Feb 2012 » Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself

• 06 Feb 2012 » An R script for estimating future inflation via the Treasury market

• 06 Feb 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (2/5)

• 03 Feb 2012 » Why don’t we hear more about Adrian Dantley on ESPN? This graph makes me think he was as good an offensive player as Michael Jordan.

• 02 Feb 2012 » Cleveland’s (?) 2001 plan for redefining statistics as “data science”

• 01 Feb 2012 » Evidence-based Music

• 31 Jan 2012 » This graph makes me think Kobe is not that good, he just shoots a lot

• 30 Jan 2012 » Why in-person education isn’t dead yet…but a statistician could finish it off

• 29 Jan 2012 » Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/29)

• 27 Jan 2012 » This simple bar graph clearly demonstrates that the US can easily increase research funding

• 26 Jan 2012 » When should statistics papers be published in Science and Nature?

• 25 Jan 2012 » The end of in-class lectures is closer than I thought

• 25 Jan 2012 » A wordcloud comparison of the 2011 and 2012 #SOTU

• 23 Jan 2012 » Why statisticians should join and launch startups

• 22 Jan 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (1/21)

• 20 Jan 2012 » Interview With Joe Blitzstein

• 19 Jan 2012 » Data Journalism Awards

• 19 Jan 2012 » Fundamentals of Engineering Review Question Oops

• 17 Jan 2012 » figshare and don’t trust celebrities stating facts

• 16 Jan 2012 » A Tribute To One Of The Most Popular Methods In

• 15 Jan 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup

• 13 Jan 2012 » In the era of data what is a fact?

• 13 Jan 2012 » Academics are partly to blame for supporting the closed and expensive access system of publishing

• 11 Jan 2012 » Help us rate health news reporting with citizen-science powered http://www.healthnewsrater.com

• 10 Jan 2012 » Statistical Crime Fighter

• 10 Jan 2012 » Do you own or rent?

• 09 Jan 2012 » A statistician and Apple fanboy buys a Chromebook…and loves it!

• 08 Jan 2012 » Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup

• 08 Jan 2012 » Where do you get your data?

• 08 Jan 2012 » Building the Team That Built Watson

• 08 Jan 2012 » Make us a part of your day - add Simply Statistics to your RSS feed

• 06 Jan 2012 » P-values and hypothesis testing get a bad rap - but we sometimes find them useful.

• 05 Jan 2012 » Why all #academics should have professional @twitter accounts

• 05 Jan 2012 » Will Amazon Offer Analytics as a Service?

• 03 Jan 2012 » Baltimore gun offenders and where academics don’t live

• 02 Jan 2012 » List of cities/states with open data - help me find more!

• 28 Dec 2011 » Grad students in (bio)statistics - do a postdoc!

• 21 Dec 2011 » An R function to map your Twitter Followers

• 19 Dec 2011 » On Hard and Soft Money

• 18 Dec 2011 » New features on Simply Statistics

• 16 Dec 2011 » In Greece, a statistician faces life in prison for doing his job: calculating and reporting a statistic

• 16 Dec 2011 » Interview with Nathan Yau of FlowingData

• 14 Dec 2011 » Dear editors/associate editors/referees, Please reject my papers quickly

• 14 Dec 2011 » Smoking is a choice, breathing is not.

• 12 Dec 2011 » The Supreme Court’s interpretation of statistical correlation may determine the future of personalized medicine

• 09 Dec 2011 » Interview w/ Mario Marazzi, Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Director, on the importance of Government Statisticians

• 08 Dec 2011 » Plotting BeijingAir Data

• 07 Dec 2011 » Clean Air A ‘Luxury’ In Beijing’s Pollution Zone

• 07 Dec 2011 » Outrage Grows Over Air Pollution and China’s Response

• 06 Dec 2011 » Beijing Air (cont’d)

• 06 Dec 2011 » Who can resist Biostatistics Ryan Gosling?

• 05 Dec 2011 » Preventing Errors through Reproducibility

• 05 Dec 2011 » Online Learning, Personalized

• 03 Dec 2011 » Citizen science makes statistical literacy critical

• 03 Dec 2011 » The worlds has changed from analogue to digital and it’s time mathematical education makes the change too.

• 03 Dec 2011 » Reverse scooping

• 03 Dec 2011 » New S.E.C. Tactics Yield Actions Against Hedge Funds

• 02 Dec 2011 » Reproducible Research in Computational Science

• 01 Dec 2011 » Roger’s perspective on reproducible research published in Science

• 01 Dec 2011 » Beijing Air

• 01 Dec 2011 » DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data

• 30 Nov 2011 » Selling the Power of Statistics

• 29 Nov 2011 » Contributions to the R source

• 28 Nov 2011 » Reproducible Research and Turkey

• 27 Nov 2011 » Apple this is ridiculous - you gotta upgrade to upgrade!?

• 23 Nov 2011 » An R function to analyze your Google Scholar Citations page

• 22 Nov 2011 » Data Scientist vs. Statistician

• 20 Nov 2011 » Ozone rules

• 20 Nov 2011 » Show ‘em the data!

• 18 Nov 2011 » Interview with Héctor Corrada Bravo

• 17 Nov 2011 » Google Scholar Pages

• 17 Nov 2011 » The History Of Nonlinear Principal Components

• 16 Nov 2011 » Amazon EC2 is #42 on Top 500 supercomputer list

• 16 Nov 2011 » Preparing for tenure track job interviews

• 16 Nov 2011 » OK Cupid data on Infochimps - anybody got $1k for data?

• 15 Nov 2011 » First 100 Posts

• 14 Nov 2011 » The Cost of a U.S. College Education

• 14 Nov 2011 » New O’Reilly book on parallel R computation

• 11 Nov 2011 » Cooperation between Referees and Authors Increases Peer Review Accuracy

• 10 Nov 2011 » Expected Salary by Major

• 09 Nov 2011 » Statisticians on Twitter…help me find more!

• 08 Nov 2011 » Coarse PM and measurement error paper

• 07 Nov 2011 » Is Statistics too darn hard?

• 06 Nov 2011 » Reproducible research: Notes from the field

• 05 Nov 2011 » New ways to follow Simply Statistics

• 04 Nov 2011 » Interview with Victoria Stodden

• 03 Nov 2011 » Free access publishing is awesome…but expensive. How do we pay for it?

• 02 Nov 2011 » I Gave A Talk On Reproducible Research Back In

• 02 Nov 2011 » Guest Post: SMART thoughts on the ADHD 200 Data Analysis Competition

• 02 Nov 2011 » We need better marketing

• 01 Nov 2011 » Computing on the Language Followup

• 01 Nov 2011 » Advice on promotion letters bleg

• 29 Oct 2011 » The 5 Most Critical Statistical Concepts

• 27 Oct 2011 » Computing on the Language

• 26 Oct 2011 » Visualizing Yahoo Email

• 24 Oct 2011 » Web-scraping

• 24 Oct 2011 » Archetypal Athletes

• 22 Oct 2011 » Graduate student data analysis inspired by a high-school teacher

• 21 Oct 2011 » The self-assessment trap

• 21 Oct 2011 » Interview With Chris Barr

• 20 Oct 2011 » Anthropology of the Tribe of Statisticians

• 20 Oct 2011 » Finding good collaborators

• 20 Oct 2011 » Caffo’s Theorem

• 19 Oct 2011 » Do we really need applied statistics journals?

• 18 Oct 2011 » Spectacular Plots Made Entirely in R

• 18 Oct 2011 » Caffo + Ninjas = Awesome

• 17 Oct 2011 » Colors in R

• 17 Oct 2011 » Competing through data: Three experts offer their game plan

• 16 Oct 2011 » Where would we be without Dennis Ritchie?

• 14 Oct 2011 » Interview With Daniela Witten

• 13 Oct 2011 » Moneyball for Academic Institutes

• 12 Oct 2011 » Benford’s law

• 11 Oct 2011 » Errors in Biomedical Computing

• 11 Oct 2011 » Authorship conventions

• 11 Oct 2011 » Government data collection vortex

• 11 Oct 2011 » Terence’s Stuff: Speaking, reading, writing

• 10 Oct 2011 » An R function to determine if you are a data scientist

• 10 Oct 2011 » Excuse our mess…

• 09 Oct 2011 » APIs!

• 09 Oct 2011 » A nice presentation on regex in R

• 09 Oct 2011 » Hello world!

• 08 Oct 2011 » Single Screen Productivity

• 07 Oct 2011 » R Workshop: Reading in Large Data Frames

• 06 Oct 2011 » A Really Cool Paper on the “Hot Hand” in Sports

• 06 Oct 2011 » R Workshop

• 06 Oct 2011 » Prezi

• 05 Oct 2011 » Submitting scientific papers is too time consuming

• 04 Oct 2011 » Cool papers

• 04 Oct 2011 » Defining data science

• 03 Oct 2011 » Innovation and overconfidence

• 03 Oct 2011 » OracleWorld Claims and Sensations

• 02 Oct 2011 » Karl’s take on meetings

• 02 Oct 2011 » Department of Analytics, anyone?

• 01 Oct 2011 » Bits: Big Data: Sorting Reality From the Hype

• 30 Sep 2011 » Battling Bad Science

• 29 Sep 2011 » Why does Obama need statisticians?

• 29 Sep 2011 » Kindle Fire and Machine Learning

• 29 Sep 2011 » Once in a lifetime collapse

• 28 Sep 2011 » Obama recruiting analysts who know R

• 28 Sep 2011 » The Open Data Movement

• 28 Sep 2011 » The future of graduate education

• 28 Sep 2011 » The p>0.05 journal

• 27 Sep 2011 » Some cool papers

• 26 Sep 2011 » Unoriginal genius

• 26 Sep 2011 » 25 minute seminars

• 26 Sep 2011 » By poring over statistics ignored by conventional scouts, - 05.12.03 - SI Vault

• 24 Sep 2011 » How do you spend your day?

• 23 Sep 2011 » Getting email responses from busy people

• 23 Sep 2011 » Dongle communism

• 22 Sep 2011 » Most popular infographics

• 22 Sep 2011 » The Killer App for Peer Review

• 22 Sep 2011 » StatistiX

• 21 Sep 2011 » Small ball is a bad strategy

• 20 Sep 2011 » MacArthur Fellow Shwetak Patel

• 20 Sep 2011 » Private health insurers to release data

• 20 Sep 2011 » Finish and publish

• 20 Sep 2011 » Statistician Profiles

• 19 Sep 2011 » Data Sources

• 19 Sep 2011 » Meetings

• 18 Sep 2011 » Ideas/Data blogs I read

• 16 Sep 2011 » Google Fusion Tables

• 15 Sep 2011 » Communicating uncertainty visually

• 15 Sep 2011 » Another academic job market option: liberal arts colleges

• 15 Sep 2011 » When overconfidence is good

• 14 Sep 2011 » Dissecting the genomics of trauma

• 12 Sep 2011 » Advice for stats students on the academic job market

• 11 Sep 2011 » The Duke Saga

• 10 Sep 2011 » What is a Statistician?

• 09 Sep 2011 » Data visualization and art

• 08 Sep 2011 » Any Other Team Wins The World Series Good For

• 08 Sep 2011 » Data Science = Hot Career Choice

• 08 Sep 2011 » Data analysis companies getting gobbled up

• 07 Sep 2011 » Build your own pre-cog

• 07 Sep 2011 » Awesome Stat Ed Links

• 07 Sep 2011 » Pre-cog and stats

• 07 Sep 2011 » Where are the Case Studies?

• 07 Sep 2011 » Seek Simplicity And Distrust It

• 07 Sep 2011 » First things first

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