Jeff and I had a chance to interview Michael Eisen, a co-founder of the Public Library of Science, HHMI Investigator, and a Professor at UC Berkeley. We talked with him about publishing in open access and how young investigators might publish … Continue reading →
The latest issue of Technological Innovations in Statistics Education is focused on the future of the textbook. Editor Rob Gould has put together an interesting list of contributions as well as discussions from the leaders in the field of statistics … Continue reading →
Jeff and I had an opportunity to sit down with Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera and Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Jeff and I both teach massive open online courses using the Coursera platform and it was … Continue reading →
The New York Times is recruiting a chief data scientist.
Marie Davidian, the President of the American Statistical Association, writes about the JHU Biostatistics effort to deliver massive open online courses. She interviewed Jeff, Brian Caffo, and me and summarized our thoughts. All acknowledge that the future is unknown. How … Continue reading →
Rob Gould reports on what appears to have been interesting panel discussion on the future of statistics hosted by the UCLA Statistics Department. The panelists were Songchun Zhu (UCLA Statistics), Susan Paddock (RAND Corp.), and Jan de Leeuw (UCLA Statistics). He … Continue reading →
Someone needs to put this on GitHub right now. Thanks Paul Laughton for your donation of this superb collection of early to mid-1978 documents including the letters, agreements, specifications (including hand-written code and schematics), and two original source code listing for the … Continue reading →
How long do hard drives last? Backblaze has kept up to 25,000 hard drives constantly online for the last four years. Every time a drive fails, they note it down, then slot in a replacement. After four years, Backblaze now … Continue reading →
ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein is tweeting like mad man. If you're not in London, catch up on what's happening at the hashtag #FSSW2013.
I've been playing with my new iPhone 5s for the last few weeks, and first let me just say that it's an awesome phone. Don't listen to whatever Jeff says. It's probably worth it just for the camera, but I've … Continue reading →
