Data Science. TileDB. Open Source. Quant Research. R. C++. Debian. Linux. Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Illinois. Lots of coffee. And some running.
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.@ProbablePattern based on a search with both terms, #rfinance seems preferable--and used by @joshua_ulrich, @dale_rosenthal and me
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New release RcppArmadillo 0.3.820 uploaded to CRAN and Debian goo.gl/zQZim #rcpp
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Slides from a recent #Rcpp lecture at UofC, and a day-long workshop at MCW posted: goo.gl/jsy9Q #rstats
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.@geospacedman and then you proceeded to hire the team player who said "doh, BDR dude", right?
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Looks like @Debian 7.0 (aka "wheezy") was just released---kudos and congratulations to the release team, ftp masters etc for all their work!
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.@jcs Yes, try this even though they refer to it as ascii art: economist.com/blogs/babbage/…
Very neat RT @ritholtz Every Genre of Music. Graphed and Sampled dlvr.it/3KZXLJ
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Had fun giving guest lecture on Rcpp in CMCS 123-3 at U of Chicago earlier today, slides now on my talks page goo.gl/465Eq
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R/Finance 2013 registration open and going strong: ~ 140 reg'ed, 1st seminar nearing sellout goo.gl/qVG0e #rstats #rfinance
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.@kjhealy Absolument! And quotes from Il Gattopardo ("The more things change, the more they stay the same") were already flowing.
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.@kjhealy So ... clearly no change then as the world remains full of annoying people?
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.@kjhealy Indeed, but I am sure we are only a handful of Strata presentations away from a genuine breakthrough in this field.
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And/or Github forks? The metric is easy, obvious, and applicable only for a subset of jobs. Not good either in industry with private code.
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Follow-up question for hollow NYT "Big Data for Recruiting" article: How many Data Scientists does it take to rank by Github commits ?
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.@ramnath_vaidya @hadleywickham You could just read from an environment variable -- and the user is charged with with setting it.
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Come to R/Finance to hire! RT @statalgo Looking to hire people with strong stats + progs (any: R, Python, C++) for quant researcher roles.
Awesome: Software vendor trying to hop on (finance) Open Source bandwagon can't even spell "Basel3" correctly: goo.gl/VucbR
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