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		<title>Data scientists: don&#8217;t let your company&#8217;s infrastructure make you soft</title>
		<link>http://bridgewater.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/data-scientists-dont-let-your-companys-infrastructure-make-you-soft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot written about the skills needed to be a Data Scientist.  Not only should you be able to do these standard things: Wrangle data (get, transform, persist) Model (explore, explain and predict) Take action (visualize, summarize, prototype) &#8230;but I would argue that you should also be able to start with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=194&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple enough to comprehend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party, Occupy Wallstreet and many other movements (that are not about human rights) share the same problems. In order to gain a big following they have to have very, very simple ideas at their core. Charles Stross wrote a nice blog post about a totally different topic but I am going to shamelessly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=181&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using transparency for data count intuition</title>
		<link>http://bridgewater.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/using-transparency-for-data-count-intuition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an illustration of representing point count in a graphic using transparency. This is easy to do in ggplot2 if you use one of the barchart type of geoms.  However I think there are other situations where it would be useful to apply aesthetics based on point count. Since Hadley did a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=155&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your metrics are broken</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do I know?  Well it is simple;  almost everyone evaluates situations in the world using metrics that do not represent their goals with high-fidelity. For example, Peter Thiel is a great businessman and smart guy but like everyone else, his metrics are broken.  His thesis is that &#8220;innovation is dead&#8221;. “If you look outside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=148&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>map-reduce == assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Map-reduce is great. It has made it possible to process insane amounts of data on commodity hardware. However it is a very low-level programming abstraction and too low for most problems that analysts and &#8220;data scientists&#8221;  encounter. M-R is the assembly programming of big data. It is vital as the base level of the stack. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=139&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to know multivariate data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[psych::pairs.panels and corrgram::corrgram using mtcars data Core Ideas: multivariate modeling is challenging pair plots make it easy to get a quick understanding of each variable and the relationships between them Multivariate analysis and modeling can be really challenging. Getting the job done well requires you to know your data really well. People often use the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=91&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple plyr/ggplot example of cummulative distribution plots</title>
		<link>http://bridgewater.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/simple-plyrggplot-example-of-cummulative-distribution-plots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a big fan of ggplot2 for a long time but plyr has been in my toolkit for less than a year and it is now one of my most-used R packages. It is how aggregate/*apply would have been if they were awesome. In five lines this code computes the cumulative distribution functions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=78&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Careful experiments</title>
		<link>http://bridgewater.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/careful-experiments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting article that summarizes some of the recent concern with the decline in effect sizes in a wide variety of experiments in many fields. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all It also provides perspective on the long history of publication bias and how it impacts results. My own feeling is that a lot of this comes from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=69&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite R packages  (installed with one command)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just started a new job (working on social search awesomeness at Bing) and so I had to set up my &#8220;dev&#8221; environment with all of my usual tools (R, python,vim,etc). One thing that made this a bit easier is my habit of keeping an R script around that installs all of my common packages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=55&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Load R packages&#8230;directly from cran if needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[R works in many ways and on many different OSes which is great, but it also means that if you share a piece of code the recipient may need to install packages to make it work. One thing that I do (adapted from a trick my friend Paul Jin showed me) is use the following [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bridgewater.wordpress.com&amp;blog=161747&amp;post=44&amp;subd=bridgewater&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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