Simply Statistics has moved to a new platform and so if you’ve been following our blog on Tumblr, you’ll have to update your links/RSS feeds to the new web site . Apologies for the disruptio...
An interview with Brad Efron about scientific writing. I haven’t watched the whole interview, but I do know that Efron is one of my favorite writers among statisticians. Slidify, another app...
Congratulations to Bradley Saul, the winner of the Simply Statistics Logo contest! We had some great entries which made it difficult to choose between them. You can see the new logo to the right ...
Last night this article by Chris Drummond of the Canadian National Research Council (Conseil national de recherches Canada) popped up in my Google Scholar alert. The title of the article, “R...
This is part of the ongoing series of pro tips for graduate students, check out parts one , two and three for the original installments. You can never underestimate how little your audien...
Two weeks ago I finished teaching my course Computing for Data Analysis through Coursera . Since then I’ve had some time to think about how it went, what I learned, and what I’d do different...
Statisticians have been deconstructed ! I feel vaguely insulted, although I have to admit I’m not even sure I know what the article says. This line is a doozy though: "Statistics always pulls...
TOM LOUIS Tom Louis is a professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and will be joining the Census Bureau through an interagency personnel agreement as the new associate director for resear...
The night of the presidential elections I wrote a post celebrating the victory of data over punditry. I was motivated by the personal attacks made against Nate Silver by pundits that do not unde...
My favorite statistician did it again! Just like in 2008, he predicted the presidential election results almost perfectly. For those that don’t know, Nate Silver is the statistician that runs ...
When I talk about collaborative work, I don’t mean spending a day or two helping compute some p-values and end up as middle author in a subject-matter paper. I mean spending months working on a...
Brian Caffo headlines the WaPo article about massive online open courses. He is the driving force behind our department’s involvement in offering these massive courses. I think this sums it u...
Elite education for the masses : Another MOOC article but this one features Brian Caffo.
The Year of the MOOC : MOOCs have been around for a few years as collaborative techie learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in. Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at...
Microsoft Seeks an Edge in Analyzing Big Data : Microsoft is incorporating advanced computing technologies into many of its products, allowing users to comb huge amounts of data and get suggest...
As you know, we have a thing for statistical literacy here at Simply Stats. So of course this column over at Politico got our attention (via Chris V. and others). The column is an attack on ...
As the entire East Coast gets soaked by Hurricane Sandy, I can’t help but think that this is the perfect time to…take a course online! Well, as long as you have electricity, that is. I live i...
An important article about anti-science sentiment in the U.S. (via David S.). The politicization of scientific issues such as global warming, evolution, and healthcare (think vaccination) makes...
That has got to be the best reason to stay in academia. The meetings where it is just you and a bunch of really smart people thinking about tackling a new project, coming up with cool ideas, an...
Have you ever met a statistician that enjoys the joint statistical meetings (JSM)? I haven’t. With the exception of the one night we catch up with old friends there are few positive things we c...