Picks
- 857 empty desks on National Mall used to represent high school drop-outs from FlowingData
- Learn PowerShell as a shell first from The Endeavour
- Pulp Fiction presented in chronological order from FlowingData
Other News
- Americans think economy isnt so bad in their city but is crappy nationally and globally from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- BRIC conferences from my slice of pizza
- Because it's Friday: Tool does Fibonacci from Revolutions
- Big Data for Big Weather Predictions from Infochimps Blog
- Indian Court un-blocks Pirate Bay from DecisionStats
- Introducing Chart Chooser V2! from Juice Analytics
- R 2.15.1 includes performance improvements inspired by dataframe package from Revolutions
- Sparse Bayesian Methods for Low-Rank Matrix Estimation and Bayesian Group-Sparse Modeling and Variational Inference - implementation - from Nuit Blanche
- Top 10 excuses to avoid business rules: #6 my operational system does that from JT on EDM
- Turing Centennial Post 2: Gnter Ziegler from in theory
- UseR 2012 highlights from Revolutions
- Where it began: John Elder and Dean Abbott at Barron Associates from Data Mining and Predictive Analytics