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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hFORcBj44?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=375] The History of Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis, a lecture given by Jan de Leeuw. For those that have ~45 minutes to spare, it’s a very nice talk given in Jan’s characteristic style. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) Tweet Vote on HN
Amazon EC2 is #42 on Top 500 supercomputer list
Amazon EC2 is #42 on Top 500 supercomputer list Tweet Vote on HN
Preparing for tenure track job interviews
If you are in the job market you will soon be receiving (or already received) an invitation for an interview. So how should you prepare? You have two goals. The first is to make a good impression. Here are some … Continue reading
OK Cupid data on Infochimps - anybody got $1k for data?
OK Cupid is an online dating site that has grown its visibility in part through a pretty awesome blog called OK Trends, where they have analyzed their online dating data to, for example, show you what kind of profile picture … Continue reading
First 100 Posts
In honor of us passing the 100 post milestone, I’ve collected a few of our more interesting posts from the past 3 months for those who have not been avid followers from Day 1. Enjoy! First Post: Data Science = … Continue reading
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The Cost of a U.S. College Education
As a follow up to my previous post on expected salaries by majors I want to share the following graph: So why is the cost of higher education going up at a faster rate than most everything else? Economists please … Continue reading
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New O'Reilly book on parallel R computation
New O'Reilly book on parallel R computation Tweet Vote on HN
Cooperation between Referees and Authors Increases Peer Review Accuracy
Jeff Leek and colleagues just published an article in PLoS ONE on the differences between anonymous (closed) and non-anonymous (open) peer review of research articles. They developed a “peer review game” as a model system to track authors’ and reviewers’ … Continue reading
Expected Salary by Major
In this recent editorial about the Occupy Wall Street movement, Richard Kim profiles a protestor that despite having a master’s degree can’t find a job. This particular protestor quit his job as a school teacher three years ago and took out a $35K student … Continue reading