Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide
Source: introducingbooks.com Over the winter break I was travelling in the UK and I came across this little book called “Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide” by Ellen Magnello and Borin Van Loon at...
View ArticleDatasets handpicked by students
I’m often on the hunt for datasets that will not only work well with the material we’re covering in class, but will (hopefully) pique students’ interest. One sure choice is to use data collected from...
View ArticleJSM 2013 – Day 1
Bonjour de Montréal! I’m at JSM 2013, and thought it might be nice to give a brief summary of highlights of each day. Given the size of the event, any session that I attend means I’m missing at least...
View ArticleJSM 2013 – Day 2
My Monday at JSM started with the “The Profession of Statistics and Its Impact on the Media (#102)” session. The first speaker in the session, Mark Hansen, was a professor of mine at UCLA, so it was...
View ArticleJSM 2013 – Day 3
Tuesday was a slightly shorter day for me in terms of talks as I had a couple meetings to attend. The first talk I attended was my colleague Kari Lock Morgan’s talk titled “Teaching PhD Students How to...
View ArticleJSM 2013 – Days 4 and 4.5
I started off my Wednesday with the “The New Face of Statistics Education (#480)” session. Erin Blackenship from UNL talked about their second course in statistics, a math/stat course where students...
View ArticleMy first Shiny experience – CLT applet
When introducing the Central Limit Theorem for the first time in class, I used to use applets like the SOCR Sampling Distribution Applet or the OnlineStatBook Sampling Distribution Applet. If you are...
View ArticleConditional probabilities and kitties
I was at the vet yesterday, and just like with any doctor’s visit experience, there was a bit of waiting around — time for re-reading all the posters in the room. And this is what caught my eye on the...
View ArticleData Analysis and Statistical Inference starts tomorrow on Coursera
It has been (and still is) lots of work putting this course together, but I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity to teach (and learn from) the masses! Course starts tomorrow (Feb 17, 2014) at...
View ArticleNotes and thoughts from JSM 2014: Student projects utilizing...
Another August, another JSM… This time we’re in Boston, in yet another huge and cold conference center. Even on the first (half) day the conference schedule was packed, and I found myself running...
View ArticleReproducibility breakout session at USCOTS
Somehow almost an entire academic year went by without a blog post, I must have been busy… It’s time to get back in the saddle! (I’m using the classical definition of this idiom here, “doing something...
View Article“Mail merge” with RMarkdown
The term “mail merge” might not be familiar to those who have not worked in an office setting, but here is the Wikipedia definition: Mail merge is a software operation describing the production of...
View ArticleR packages for undergraduate stat ed
The other day on the isostat mailing list Doug Andrews asked the following question: Which R packages do you consider the most helpful and essential for undergrad stat ed? I ask in great part because...
View ArticleVery brief first day of class activity in R
New academic year has started for most of us. I try to do a range of activities on the first day of my introductory statistics course, and one of them is an incredibly brief activity to just show...
View ArticleTIL what happens if you use %>% instead of + in ggplot2
This post is about ggplot2 and dplyr packages, so let’s start with loading them: library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) I can’t be the first person to make the following mistake: ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y...
View ArticleA two-hour introduction to data analysis in R
A few weeks ago I gave a two-hour Introduction to R workshop for the Master of Engineering Management students at Duke. The session was organized by the student-led Career Development and Alumni...
View ArticleTeaching computation as an argument for simulation based inference
Check out my guest post on the Simulation-based statistical inference blog: Teaching computation as an argument for simulation-based inference If you are interested in teaching simulation-based...
View ArticleProject TIER
Last year I was awarded a Project TIER (Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research) fellowship, and last week my work on the fellowship wrapped up with a meeting with the project leads, other fellows...
View ArticleStatistics with R on Coursera
I held off on posting about this until we had all the courses ready, and we still have a bit more work to do on the last component, but I’m proud to announce that the specialization called Statistics...
View ArticleMy JSM 2016 itinerary
JSM 2016 is almost here. I just spent an hour going through the (very) lengthy program. I think that was time well spent, though some might argue I should have been working on my talk instead… Here is...
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