Patrick Burns @burnsstat
Burns Statistics: R programming, statistical consulting. Home of 'The R Inferno' and 'Tao Te Programming' and Alice burns-stat.com London Joined January 2013-
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My friend Ken Shepsle's working definition of today's populism, quoting NY Republican boss Thomas Platt in 1896: "Politics is the art of taking money from the few and votes from the many under the pretext of protecting one from the other"
Congratulations to Luke Tierney, winner of the 2019 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award from @AmstatNews for his creation of XLisp-Stat, work on MCMC methods, and critical contributions to R #rstats
Bertrand Russell, at his Principia Mathematica best, was spectacular: “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.” This is precisely why we should push ourselves to translate our vague, hunches into scorable probability judgments
If you are using R and think you're in hell, this is a map for you. "The R Inferno", a classic by @burnsstat: burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_… #rstats
It’s 1992. A time traveler pops into the campaign bus of these young Americans and says “Three of you will win the popular vote and only one of you will become President.”
People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.
London has fallen: 8 Decades of British Royal Corgis Reportedly at an End via @NYTimes nyti.ms/2vr6Kjh
S+S Episode 53 is now available! "Protecting seaside cities from possible future impacts of climate change" - Guest: Peter Guttorp (@guttorp). Story will be featured in @signmagazine next week. Exciting new S+S/Significance collaboration. (with guest photo)
Depraved Masochist Enjoys Following The News trib.al/jqRAfjR
A graphical analysis of Tao Te Programming bit.ly/2oTnZEg Amusing and most probably useful. #programming #rstats
I am now a free agent on 'garden leave', open for "interesting" work in the quant / data science / ml space. Chicago, or possibly remote. Strong preference for compatibility with my adjunct position at U of Illinois. Any pointers? Please email [email protected]. Thanks!
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens trib.al/AdNR9gz
Thresher's automated methods massively speed up hand coding for machine learning (& classify Chihuahuas v muffins!) ow.ly/LVQ730dqonH
This is now an R Unferno-ism, fixed in version 0.10-0. #rstats github.com/joshuaulrich/x… x.com/burnsstat/stat…
New version of xts (with bug fixes) available bit.ly/2uEMOFa #rstats
@realDonaldTrump And then he said someone else wasn't smart enough to be president.
Trump's got a coal industry climate denier picking EPA officials, so who will he put in charge of education ? x.com/blalpert/statu…
Hillary ran for president, Trump is running for dictator and he's part way there. bit.ly/2fOMbEC
R come l’Inferno di Dante bit.ly/2dp2pii (the R Inferno goes home) #rstats
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