aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R edit / delete

"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The development environment suffers from literally decades of accretion of stupid hacks from a community containing, to a first-order approximation, zero software engineers."

to amusements language-design r statistics ... on 06 October 2015

ElectionForecast.co.uk edit / delete

Predicting the results of the general election using R. With pretty pictures.

to election modelling politics prediction statistics uk ... on 28 March 2015

Togaware: Hands-On Data Science with R edit / delete

A course on data mining and related techniques using R.

to data data-mining r statistics ... on 13 March 2015

Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong edit / delete

"A woefully incomplete guide." But what it does talk about is good advice.

to ag0803 science statistics ... on 13 March 2015

36-350, Statistical Computing, Fall 2013 edit / delete

Programming course for people who know some statistics already.

to maths programming r statistics teaching ... on 03 October 2014

How Not To Run An A/B Test edit / delete

"Decide on a sample size in advance and wait until the experiment is over before you start believing the “chance of beating original” figures that the A/B testing software gives you."

to ag0803 honours significance statistics testing ... on 24 August 2014

Kenneth W. Regan's Chess Page edit / delete

Mostly about detecting cheating in chess through extremely crafty statistical methods. Fascinating stuff -- although you probably need to know more about chess than I do to really appreciate it.

to cheating chess competition games statistics ... on 24 August 2014

StatsModels: Statistics in Python — statsmodels documentation edit / delete

Fancy statistics package for Python. (Not quite as fancy as R, but then again you also don't have to write in R to use it...)

to library python statistics ... on 28 April 2014

SciPy Cookbook edit / delete

With lots of handy guides for scientific data processing with Python. A good starting point.

to analysis data matplotlib plotting python science scipy statistics ... on 28 April 2014

matplotlib: python plotting — Matplotlib 1.3.1 documentation edit / delete

Having had a play with this, I can see why everyone's so enthusiastic about it. It even has an XKCD mode.

to data graph plotting python software statistics ... on 28 April 2014

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