Tag Archives: software

Statisticians and computer scientists - if there is no code, there is no paper

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jeff Leek

I think it has been beat to death that the incentives in academia lean heavily toward producing papers and less toward producing/maintaining software. There are people that are way, way more knowledgeable than me about building and maintaining software. For … Continue reading →

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Email is a to-do list made by other people - can someone make it more efficient?!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by admin

This is a follow-up to one of our most popular posts: getting email responses from busy people. This post had been in the drafts for a few weeks, then this morning I saw this quote in our Twitter feed: Your … Continue reading →

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This is an awesome paper all students in statistics should read

Posted on October 3, 2012 by admin

The paper is a review of how to do software development for academics. I saw it via C. Titus Brown (who we have interviewed), he is also a co-author. How to write software (particularly for other people) is something that … Continue reading →

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Interview with C. Titus Brown - Computational biologist and open access champion

Posted on August 17, 2012 by admin

C. Titus Brown  C. Titus Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He develops computational software for next generation sequencing and the author of the blog, “Living in an Ivory … Continue reading →

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