As in previous years, I want to repost a warning to ‘Og readers that all http links to Amazon.com [and much more rarely to Amazon.fr] products found on this ‘Og are actually susceptible to reward me with an advertising percentage if a purchase is made by the reader in the 24 hours following the entry […]
As in previous years, at about this time, I want to (re)warn unaware ‘Og readers that all links to Amazon.com and more rarely to Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to earn me an advertising percentage if a purchase is made by the reader in the 24 hours following the entry on Amazon […]
I often use Amazon EC2 to store and retrieve data when I need either additional storage or higher computing capacity. In this tutorial I’ll share how to connect to a MySQL database so that one can retrieve the data and do the analysis. I tend to use either TOAD for MySQL or MySQL Workbench to run […]
Following a now well-established pattern, let me (re)warn (the few) unwary ‘Og readers that the links to Amazon.com and to Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to earn me a monetary gain [from 4% to 8% on the sales] if a purchase is made by the reader in the 24 hours following the […]
I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend the Amazon AWS Summit in NYC and to listen to Werner Vogels give the keynote. I will share a few of my thoughts on the AWS 2013 Summit and some of my take-aways. I attended sessions that focused on two products in particular: Redshift and [...]
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(My colleague Jean-Louis Fouley, now at I3M, Montpellier, kindly agreed to write a review on the BUGS book for CHANCE. Here is the review, en avant-première! Watch out, it is fairly long and exhaustive! References will be available in the published version. The additions of book covers with BUGS in the title and of the corresponding [...]
As in previous years, let me warn unwary readers that the links to Amazon.com and Amazon.fr found on this blog are actually susceptible to earn me a monetary gain [from 4% to 7%] if a purchase is made in the 24 hours following the entry on Amazon through this link, thanks to the “Amazon Services [...]
For an hour or so earlier today Serious Stats was #1 in the amazon.co.uk sales rank for the category: Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Methodology > Statistics As of writing the rank has dropped to #3 (but I’m still quite excited – even though I know this may not imply large numbers of pre-orders). They have also […]
For an hour or so earlier today Serious Stats was #1 in the amazon.co.uk sales rank for the category: Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Methodology > Statistics As of writing the rank has dropped to #3 (but I’m still quite excited – even though I know this may not imply large numbers of pre-orders). They have also […]
This is a guest blog from Alvaro Tejada Galindo, my colleague and fellow R and SAP HANA enthusiast. I am thankful to Alvaro for coming and posting on "AllThingsR".Are you an R developers? Have ever heard of SAP HANA? Would you like to test&n...
