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"https://civilstat.com/2014/05/other-students-views-on-cmus-statistics-department/", "published_at": "2014-05-16T17:51:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c540-bb2b-7270-a340-9449ae0c95f0", "title": "More on graduate study for careers in Statistics", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/05/more-on-graduate-study-for-careers-in-statistics/", "published_at": "2014-05-15T13:42:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c91843ad1", "title": "Barkov Chain Monte Crawlo", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/05/barkov-chain-monte-crawlo/", "published_at": "2014-05-14T20:33:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c9190c6d5", "title": "Belief-Sustaining Inference", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/04/belief-sustaining-inference/", "published_at": "2014-04-01T04:05:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c924e3eb9", "title": "Bayesian statistics and applied computing at CMU?", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/02/bayesian-statistics-and-applied-computing-at-cmu/", "published_at": "2014-02-28T17:40:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c929f369f", "title": "With loss of generality", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/02/with-loss-of-generality/", "published_at": "2014-02-20T02:43:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c92f59939", "title": "Reproducible research, training wheels, and knitr", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/02/reproducible-research-training-wheels-and-knitr/", "published_at": "2014-02-15T19:16:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c931c107b", "title": "After 1st semester of Statistics PhD program", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2014/02/after-1st-semester-of-statistics-phd-program/", "published_at": "2014-02-09T18:29:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c9358353e", "title": "Turing-complete inversion tables, presented reasonable on your part!", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/11/turing-complete-inversion-tables-presented-reasonable-on-your-part/", "published_at": "2013-11-08T14:09:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c94319f88", "title": "Data-Driven Journalism MOOC", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/10/data-driven-journalism-mooc/", "published_at": "2013-10-06T20:45:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c950b010c", "title": "Is a Master’s degree in Statistics worthwhile?", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/08/is-a-masters-degree-in-statistics-worthwhile/", "published_at": "2013-08-25T14:45:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c549-662f-72dd-89b1-b23c950dba6d", "title": "History of CMU’s Department of Statistics", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/08/history-of-cmus-department-of-statistics/", "published_at": "2013-08-16T15:35:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecbb83db27", "title": "Census-related links from June", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/07/census-related-links-from-june/", "published_at": "2013-07-05T17:55:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecbbb0c614", "title": "Transitions", "url": 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"01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecbec4ff22", "title": "Hypothesis tests will not answer your question", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/01/hypothesis-tests-will-not-answer-your-question/", "published_at": "2013-01-26T23:02:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecbfb5853f", "title": "audiolyzR: Data sonification with R", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/01/audiolyzr-data-sonification-with-r/", "published_at": "2013-01-13T21:25:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecbfbf5175", "title": "DC R Meetup: “Analyze US Government Survey Data with R”", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/01/dc-r-meetup-analyze-us-government-survey-data-with-r/", "published_at": "2013-01-11T04:47:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c552-0e51-7053-9139-f8ecc000edb4", "title": "More names for statistics, and do they matter?", "url": "https://civilstat.com/2013/01/more-names-for-statistics-and-do-they-matter/", "published_at": "2013-01-06T17:46:48+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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Courage in difficult times original ↗

18 Feb 2025

Robert Santos resigns as US Census Bureau director original ↗

2 Feb 2025

Well, here we are again original ↗

26 Jan 2025

2022

Hanukkah of Data 2022 original ↗

22 Dec 2022

Hiring a tenure-track statistician at Colby College original ↗

8 Oct 2022

surveyCV: K-fold cross validation for complex sample survey designs original ↗

22 Mar 2022

Ukraine and Poland original ↗

15 Mar 2022

2021

In memoriam: Leland Wilkinson original ↗

14 Dec 2021

Big Data Paradox and COVID-19 surveys original ↗

10 Dec 2021

Your sabbatical has been eaten by a grue original ↗

20 Oct 2021

Call for papers for 2021 NeurIPS workshop on ML for the Developing World, themed around Global Challenges original ↗

9 Sept 2021

And we’re back!original ↗

8 Sept 2021

2020

Call for papers on ML for the Developing World, themed around Improving Resilience original ↗

26 Aug 2020

2019

Colby is hiring a tenure-track statistician original ↗

9 Oct 2019

“Concise Statistical Year-Book of Poland, 1939”original ↗

2 Sept 2019

Call for papers: NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on ML for the Developing World original ↗

9 Aug 2019

After 10th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

9 Aug 2019

After 9th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

9 Aug 2019

After 8th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

9 Aug 2019

2018

Meng’s “Big Data Paradox” and an extreme example original ↗

12 Oct 2018

Tenure-track faculty position in Statistics at Colby College original ↗

1 Oct 2018

2017

Think-aloud interviews can help you write better assessments original ↗

22 Oct 2017

ASA watch on integrity of federal statistical data original ↗

2 Feb 2017

Seminar on Active Learning pedagogy (continued)original ↗

5 Jan 2017

2016

Statistical Science conversations, and in memoriam original ↗

30 Dec 2016

After 7th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

29 Dec 2016

“Sound experimentation was profitable”original ↗

29 Dec 2016

After 6th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

27 Dec 2016

When static graphs beat interactives original ↗

26 Oct 2016

Deep Learning course, and my own (outdated) DL attempts original ↗

1 Sept 2016

PSA: R’s rnorm() and mvrnorm() use different spreads original ↗

18 Jun 2016

Data sanity checks: Data Proofer (and R analogues?)original ↗

21 May 2016

Seminar on Active Learning pedagogy original ↗

18 May 2016

After 5th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

22 Apr 2016

Tapestry 2016 conference: short stories and wrap-up original ↗

22 Mar 2016

Tapestry 2016 conference: overview and keynote speakers original ↗

21 Mar 2016

Are you really moving to Canada?original ↗

18 Mar 2016

Lunch with ASA president Jessica Utts original ↗

17 Mar 2016

Tapestry 2016 materials: LOs and Rubrics for teaching Statistical Graphics and Visualization original ↗

8 Mar 2016

PolicyViz episode on teaching data visualization original ↗

4 Mar 2016

A year after BASP banned statistical inference original ↗

18 Feb 2016

The Elements of Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland original ↗

17 Jan 2016

2015

A cursory overview of Differential Privacy original ↗

3 Dec 2015

Stefan Wager on the statistics of random forests original ↗

13 Nov 2015

Participant observation in statistics classes (Steve Fienberg interview)original ↗

12 Nov 2015

Victoria Stodden on Reproducible Research original ↗

10 Nov 2015

Teaching data visualization: approaches and syllabi original ↗

4 Nov 2015

Why bother with magrittr original ↗

31 Oct 2015

Statistical Graphics and Visualization course materials original ↗

28 Oct 2015

Chai Squares original ↗

23 Oct 2015

Summary sheet of ways to map statistical uncertainty original ↗

29 Sept 2015

About to teach Statistical Graphics and Visualization course at CMU original ↗

1 Sept 2015

One more difference between statistics and [machine learning, data science, etc.]original ↗

25 Jul 2015

Dataviz contest on “Visualizing Well-Being”original ↗

17 Jul 2015

“Don’t invert that matrix” – why and how original ↗

13 Jul 2015

Two principled approaches to data visualization original ↗

9 Jul 2015

Simplistic thinking in statistical inference original ↗

5 Jul 2015

DotCity: a game written in R? and other statistical computer games?original ↗

28 Jun 2015

After 4th semester of statistics PhD program original ↗

27 Jun 2015

Nice example of a map with uncertainty original ↗

23 Apr 2015

Roulette Wheel of Time original ↗

22 Apr 2015

Reader Morghulis original ↗

8 Apr 2015

Small Area Estimation 101: old materials posted original ↗

3 Apr 2015

Forget NHST: conference bans all conclusions original ↗

1 Apr 2015

Statistics Done Wrong, Alex Reinhart original ↗

31 Mar 2015

NHST ban followup original ↗

11 Mar 2015

Very gentle resource for speeding up R code original ↗

5 Mar 2015

Launch party for CMU undergrad stats major programs original ↗

4 Mar 2015

Journal bans null hypothesis testing and confidence intervals original ↗

27 Feb 2015

2014

After 3rd semester of Statistics PhD program original ↗

31 Dec 2014

Dataclysm, Christian Rudder original ↗

30 Oct 2014

“Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures,” Breiman original ↗

28 Aug 2014

After teaching 1st statistics course original ↗

11 Aug 2014

What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain original ↗

11 Jul 2014

How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, Robert Greenberg original ↗

11 Jul 2014

Winter is coming (to the Broad Street pump)original ↗

23 May 2014

After 2nd semester of Statistics PhD program original ↗

22 May 2014

‘Census Marketing’ app by Olin College students original ↗

19 May 2014

Other students’ views on CMU’s Statistics department original ↗

16 May 2014

More on graduate study for careers in Statistics original ↗

15 May 2014

Barkov Chain Monte Crawlo original ↗

14 May 2014

Belief-Sustaining Inference original ↗

1 Apr 2014

Bayesian statistics and applied computing at CMU?original ↗

28 Feb 2014

With loss of generality original ↗

20 Feb 2014

Reproducible research, training wheels, and knitr original ↗

15 Feb 2014

After 1st semester of Statistics PhD program original ↗

9 Feb 2014

2013

Turing-complete inversion tables, presented reasonable on your part!original ↗

8 Nov 2013

Data-Driven Journalism MOOC original ↗

6 Oct 2013

Is a Master’s degree in Statistics worthwhile?original ↗

25 Aug 2013

History of CMU’s Department of Statistics original ↗

16 Aug 2013

Census-related links from June original ↗

5 Jul 2013

Transitions original ↗

9 Apr 2013

Visual Revelations, Howard Wainer original ↗

21 Mar 2013

Upcoming DataKind datadive with the World Bank in DC original ↗

16 Feb 2013

Small Area Estimation resources original ↗

2 Feb 2013

Evil Queen of Numbers original ↗

28 Jan 2013

Hypothesis tests will not answer your question original ↗

26 Jan 2013

audiolyzR: Data sonification with R original ↗

13 Jan 2013

DC R Meetup: “Analyze US Government Survey Data with R”original ↗

11 Jan 2013

More names for statistics, and do they matter?original ↗

6 Jan 2013