1) FasteR! HigheR! StrongeR! - A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People (via R-bloggers)
2) African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data
3) "[T]he climate that worries me most is the climate of fear, the belief that our current trajectory leads inevitably to total disaster"
4) The glory of replication projects in econometrics (via John Whitehead)
5) Mapping Change in Large Networks
6) Did China really lose over half its rivers over the past 2 decades?
7) Datta and Mullainathan on behavioral design in development policy (via Elizabeth Katz)
8) Fifty years of chaos theory (via Sam Arbesman)
2) African Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data
3) "[T]he climate that worries me most is the climate of fear, the belief that our current trajectory leads inevitably to total disaster"
5) Mapping Change in Large Networks
6) Did China really lose over half its rivers over the past 2 decades?
7) Datta and Mullainathan on behavioral design in development policy (via Elizabeth Katz)
8) Fifty years of chaos theory (via Sam Arbesman)
Thanks for the R link--quite helpful. I keep watching to see if there is any progress on redoing R based on Lisp to make it stronger and faster:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/JSM-2010.pdf
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-May/049501.html
http://andrewgelman.com/2010/09/13/ross_ihaka_to_r/