I’ve recently delivered a three-day intensive short-course on Scala for statistical computing and data science. The course seemed to go well, and the experience has convinced me that Scala should be used a lot more by statisticians and data scientists for a range of problems in statistical computing. In particular, the simplicity of writing fast … Continue reading Statistical computing with Scala free on-line course
Recently, Greg Laughlin, the founder of a new statistical software called Statwing, let me try his product for free. I happen to like free things very much (the college student is strong within me) so I gave it a try. I mostly like how easy it is to use: For instance, to relate two attributes […]
Amazon is currently making the first edition of Bayesian Computation with R (Use R) by Jim Albert available for free on Kindle. I own a copy of the book and there is a lot of good content and R examples on how one can do general Bayesian statistics. The R scripts from the book (2nd edition but [...]
