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
New CRAN package gaussfacts 0.0.1 Random 'facts' about the greatest mathematician ever goo.gl/kZ6Oir
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
The @BostonGlobe is making a pretty extraordinary statement. Here is tomorrow’s front page.
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It would be awesome if the paper was actually 'open' like, you know, Open Source.
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<sad face> After Google's Code Search, the second casualty. Once again @Debian (and @zacchiro) to the rescue.
OpenHub code search has been discontinued... code.openhub.net/ luckily Debian has sources.debian.net ;-)
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
There are more places where you can buy firearms in America than Starbucks Coffee shops on the planet
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Slides from the talk are now up--had to get home to kick the router. Sorry about the outage, thanks for having me!
Replying to @JasenMackie
Check @eddelbuettel website, he has lots of talks up, not sure if these will go up as well.
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suppressMessages() does the same (+ more) while shorter. Startup messages can be useful, have them in some packages.
Replying to @rgfitzjohn
.@rgfitzjohn Package startup messages: just say suppressPackageStartupMessages() 😜 #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
For those saying gun laws don't work, I made a list of Australian public mass shootings since our strict 1996 laws
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Bye bye South Africa. We had a blast. See you another time.
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Meeting fellow Rblpapi hacker Rademeyer for coffee en route to lovely Stellenbosch. #Rcpp #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
Getting back into C++ doesn't seem so painful with #Rcpp #rstats thanks @eddelbuettel
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Thanks for having me, and especially to Maia (and @CapeRUser) for organizing and a cold one or two afterwards.
@eddelbuettel @CapeRUser thanks for the fun intro to #Rcpp :-) enjoy the rest of your holiday in Cape Town! #rstats
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Besides the admirable #WTFPL use 'in the wild', it makes @paultag and co look good!
« le seul dépôt parmi les 600 sous #WTFPL est celui d’une administration française» medium.com/data-colada/l%C3%… /cc: @samhocevar
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I have been very happy (in Chicago) with one of these (via a season-ending sale): breezerbikes.com/bikes/detai…
I'm looking for a pretty nice commuter bike -- a hybrid, maybe even a comfort bike -- for riding all seasons. Any recommendations?
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
The R Consortium welcomes IBM as its newest Platinum member r-consortium.org/news/announ…
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Replying to @opencpu
And if you were using Rcpp it would happen automagically for you @opencpu @kevin_ushey #rstats #rcpp
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Looking forward to it!
This Thursday #Rcpp with @eddelbuettel We'll be on health sciences campus, Falmouth building Seminar room 2 for 17:30. Directions on web...
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A breath of fresh air with a design that is readable via rss and html. #rstats #alreadySubscribed
A nice way to see what's happening to #rstats community: rweekly.org/
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Potentially quite useful: Supports "Open Symbology" API for financial instruments #finance #rstats
New CRAN package ROpenFIGI with initial version 0.2.8 goo.gl/pgljT #rstats
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You know how it goes. I had little to do with anything important as @lisampow usually takes charge.
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