Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.

Chicago, IL, USA
Joined March 2007
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Volume 48, Issues 1 to 11 of the Journal of Statistical Software just appeared: goo.gl/M4hQD #rstats
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We're 549 cats short. ♻ @crampell: man divorces wife because her 550 cats were blocking the bed, stealing his food. toi.sr/LnCi9B
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R/Finance 2012 presentations slides are being added to the agenda page as we receive permissions to post goo.gl/XPsS0 #rfin #rstats
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Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. wh.gov/6TH
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Could that have prevented twitter? ♻ @sorenmacbeth: We need KickStopper as in "We will pay money for you not to make/stop making that."
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Another #removeoneletterfilms: "O Bother where art thou" about the search for ennui
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That leads to "Taxi Diver" ♻ @kjhealy: Aging Bull #RemoveOneLetterFilms
Yeah yea yeah :) ♻ @joshua_ulrich: First #rfin award goes to @eddelbuettel for the longest. lightning. talk. ever. :-)
Does the world really need an 180 page book on this? ♻ @gappy3000: [...] you may know/enjoy The Art of Readable Code: amzn.to/IXEupy
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Resist and defend camelCase ! "@hadleywickham: @shabbychef the hadley style guide pushes_underscores ! #rstats"
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Simon Urbanek is showing some genuinely cool stuff using iPlots extreme, FastRWeb, and RServe #rfin
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Have you tried R's xlxs ? RT @ananelson Here's the xlwt package [...] python-excel.org/ #rfin
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Replying to @ProbablePattern
Presto, now even with Machine Learning added :) @ProbablePattern Heat mapping gold? I must be watching CNBC. #rfin
Replying to @kirkwy
@kirkwy And so they did years ago -- revo's flying monkeys were a big part of my daughters growing up :) #rfin
On the CTA approaching day 2 of R/Finance. With less impressive weather but another very promising program. #rfin
Good match for R/Finance Day 1 ♻ @CRANberriesFeed: New CRAN package RTDAmeritrade with initial version 0.0.1 goo.gl/pgljT #rstats
Looking forward to it ♻ @shabbychef: just butchered a 30 minute talk to fit into 6 minutes. look, ma! no context! // #rfin #rstats
New package by Simon Urbanek to connect R to Cassandra ♻ @CRANberriesFeed: New CRAN package RCassandra goo.gl/pgljT #rstats
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Colbert was early with his "facts have a well-known liberal bias". ♻ @justinwolfers: The Ryan budget's war on data. econbrowser.com/archives/201…
Belated blog post about the way-too-warm Boston Marathon two weeks ago: goo.gl/HPV1N