Feuilleton

Here we offer ephemera, a little light reading and some more challenging material. We hope that least some of it will become the “talk of the town”.

Worth Reading

• Highlights from the Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments Summit
• How Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Some Jobs But Create Others: A sober but optimistic view on the impact of AI

Worth a Look

• Causality for medical statistics by David Cox: A 83-minute lecture by the master
• A visual history of population growth in the US from Flowing Data

R Resources

• A Free Tutorial for using Quandl with R
• A SAS to R Tutorial
• Mastering Software Development in R, by Peng and Kross: A solid introduction to R, well worth purchasing
• Some vtreat Design Principles: A look at the ideas behind statistically sound data preparation
• The R Graph Gallery: a great resource and place to go for inspiration
• Using R packages and education to scale Data Science at Airbnb: a case study