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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@revodavid @DataJunkie: If you use proper classes, C++ code is as short as R but runs lots faster; cf our Kalman Filter example. #rstats
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New post with example for the R namespace for d/p/q/r stats functions, and Rcpp attributes, in Rcpp 0.10.0: goo.gl/6vW0W #rstats
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Thanks -- Rcpp is a team effort MT @MgNantes @eddelbuettel thanks for this great work which benefits lots of people all over the world !
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Used by some of us for many years already, worth repeating MT @darrenjw Keeping R up to date on Ubuntu linux wp.me/pB0wL-id #rstats
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And kept buying on InTrade :) MT @kjhealy "Man, they really didn’t see it coming. cbsn.ws/Rmrg7c " /cc @justinwolfers
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Reason 4726 of why Google > Bing: the M$ "Academic Search" gives me 1 pub with 9 citations, Google Scholar is tad more generous :)
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Awesome -- just announced: new tool codesearch.debian.net to search 130gb code in Debian with full regexp support
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New RInside release 0.2.9 with added resilience to bad user input, new and expanded examples and more goo.gl/Fl0iI #rstats #rcpp
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New Ragnar Relay next June along Lake Ontario -- I ran parts of that route when living in in Toronto: goo.gl/JkBTN
Also needs Rcpp from SVN @xieyihui (dev version of) knitr works with Rcpp now thanks to JJ Allaire: github.com/yihui/knitr-examp… … #rcpp #rstats
@hadleywickham Well, doh, it's the inverse: a statistician is a data scientist who is useful ;-)
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@peteskomoroch As a finance quant I don't get to talk much data as we're secretive. But I can always poke fun at so-called data scientists.
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@peteskomoroch Oh it is much worse -- as an econometrician I am eternally cursed to strive for acceptance by real statisticians.
Statistician: person using data in [scientifically] rigorous ways. Data Scientist: person writings blog posts, giving talks ... about data.
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Nice. I just got the Go book (in progress) from Manning for a review :) @leoneu Nice intro to #golang - Go at Google talks.golang.org/2012/splash… …
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Sure ;-). And real men write compilers in ed too, right? #CantLiveWithoutEmacs MT @sfalcon Syntax highlighting is a crutch.
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R 2.15.2 for Ubuntu now on CRAN as Michael did his part RT R 2.15.2 released as scheduled, just uploaded the fresh Debian builds. #rstats
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