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My nephew’s a very impressive young man. Five years ago, he received a PhD in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from a prestigious university, earning numerous teaching and… Read More »a Little SQL with a Little R

In PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R — Part I, I began to discuss how data that was too big for RAM is handled in… Read More »PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R — Part II

My daughter just started a business analytics Master’s program. For the probability sequence of the core statistics course, one of her assignments is to calculate… Read More »Poker, Probability, Monte Carlo, and R

I’ve got a big digital mouth. Last time, I wrote on frequencies using R, noting cavalierly that I’d done similar development in Python/Pandas. I wasn’t lying,… Read More »Frequencies in Pandas — and a Little R Magic for Python

Data Dictionary to Meta Data III is the third and final blog devoted to demonstrating the automation of meta data creation for the American Community… Read More »Reticulating Python and R — the American Community Survey Data Dictionary to Meta Data III.

My blog last week articulated a first shot at automating the creation of meta data for the American Community Survey 2012-2016 household data set, using its… Read More »Data Dictionary to Meta Data II — Simple Text Wrangling and Factor Creation in R

In a blog from three months ago, I wrote on “kind of” big data in R. The “kind of” was meant as a caveat that data… Read More »PostgreSQL, MonetDB, and Too-Big-for-Memory Data in R — Part I

I met up with an old grad school friend a few weeks back. He’s an accomplished professor of demography, basically the statistical study of populations, particularly… Read More »American Community Survey data in R