Stories by jmount

A short and brutish analysis of book sales

The C language is purely functional

Big data: are we making a big mistake?

Kepler's Planetary Bonanza [video]

You don’t need to understand pointers to program using R

New R / data science book

Can a classifier that never says “yes” be useful?

What is Verification by Multiplicity?

Drowning in insignificance

February 22: Half off Practical Data Science with R. Use code dotd022214au

The gap between data mining and predictive models

Unprincipled Component Analysis

Evidence Emerges That Google’s Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

Bad Bayes: an example of why you need hold-out testing

Popularity and Social Networks: Life is still like high school

Use standard deviation (not mad about MAD)

The Extra Step: Graphs for Communication versus Exploration

Unspeakable bets: take small steps (dynamic programming example)

Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up

Unit tests as penance

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