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
Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
When you have a degree in Financial Econometrics and you love #opensource, good things happen. Interview with @eddelbuettel coming soon.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
#rstats The R Consortium's ISC recently awarded $234,000 in grants. For a summary of projects receiving awards: bit.ly/2ouObqj
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RApiDatetime 0.0.3 on CRAN: brown bag bug fix C-level API of R for date + datetime conversion goo.gl/4qRu7v #rstats
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What my wife's been up to this week... SSB tax presentation to Antigua cabinet. /cc @UICHPA @UICPRC
Dr. Powell, Director of #UICHPA and #IPRC discusses fiscal policy options to reduce sugary drink consumption with PM Browne of Antigua.
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R^4 #2: Even Easier Package Registration Now for R-release too goo.gl/rx4eps #rstats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
"And that is why I have decided to accept an invitation to become Angela Merkel's cat" #Article50
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R^4 #1: Easy Package Registration Add src/init.c with a single call to R-devel via @docker goo.gl/H3lzwM #rstats
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nanotime 0.1.2 on CRAN: nanoseconds for R Potentially final S3 release before trying S4 for extra rigour goo.gl/0s1Biq #rstats
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RcppTOML 0.1.2 on CRAN: Improved vectors of bool, date(time), tables TOML is saner than JSON, XML, ini... goo.gl/bX81XH #rstats
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Was the other passenger called "Bobby Tables"?
Lyft line driver just called the other passenger "Null?" as they got in the car because their name showed up as null in the app I'm crying 😭
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Awesome: a single tree (and Merkle DAG) of all free software. 5 Billion nodes. 50 Billion edges. Fantastic project.
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RApiDatetime 0.0.2 on CRAN: Now with Windoze C-level access to R Date(time) functions goo.gl/VwgeQX /cc and thx @joshua_ulrich
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New CRAN package RApiDatetime 0.0.1 C-level API for (Date)time use by other packages Windows porting help welcome goo.gl/VrJvDa
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Dirk Eddelbuettel retweeted
NERDS: Statistics is pretty cool guys ok WORLD: whatever NERDS: :( NERDS: it's called Machine Learning now WORLD: OMG MUST HAVE IMMEDIATELY
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Suggests != Depends Some CRAN packages are doing it wrong, and I will skip testing them. goo.gl/Dfq87G
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