Picks
- Another perfectly cromulent word from Language Log
- Flowchart: Gandalf problem solving from FlowingData
- Hagel "refused to stop efforts to end terrorist attacks" from Language Log
- Overestimating, underestimating, whatever from Language Log
- Rifle-shaped wine bottle from The Endeavour
Other News
- Classic EM in Python: Multinomial sampling from Healthy Algorithms
- Government regulations as software from Daniel Lemire's blog
- Infochimps CTO Named Top 100 Contributors to GitHub 2012 from Infochimps Big Data Platform Blog
- Last call: Postdoc positions at Microsoft Research NYC from Oddhead Blog
- Mathematica adds R connectivity from Revolutions
- Mathematica latest software to offer built-in Integration with R #rstats from DECISION STATS
- My talk at the NY data visualization meetup this Monday! from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Refactorings Extended: Please Welcome Mike, Drew and Kevin from ribbonfarm
- Sunday Morning Insight: The extreme paucity of tools for blind deconvolution of biochemical networks from Nuit Blanche
- The four D's of programming's future: data, distributed, device, democratized from Revolutions
- Theyd rather be rigorous than right from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Webinar Jan 24: Using R with Hadoop from Revolutions
