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Playing Cards with R

In my courses on R, I usually show how to insert a picture as a background for a graph. But it is also to see the picture as an object, and to insert it in a...

0 replies - 722 views - 05/12/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Poisson Regression on Non-Integers

In the course on claims reserving techniques, I did mention the use of Poisson regression, even if incremental payments were not integers. For instance, we did...

0 replies - 494 views - 05/12/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Why Don't We Just Hadoopify It?

Matt Schumpert took the stage at the InterOp Big Data Workshop in Las Vegas yesterday to talk about the myths and realities of Big Data. Matt is...

0 replies - 3198 views - 05/11/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

DevOps at Puppet, Chef, and DevStack

Panelists from Puppet, Chef, and DevStack discuss DevOps strategies in this panel from HP Cloud:

0 replies - 2446 views - 05/11/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Data News: "Life in the City is One Giant Math Problem" and More

Series of links to (interesting) posts and articles“Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math...

0 replies - 1041 views - 05/11/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

The Cloudcast: From DevOps to Private PaaS

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the MP3 Date: May 9, 2013 By: Aaron Delp and Brian...

0 replies - 2686 views - 05/11/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

I Have All the Data in the World, Now What?

The Big Data Workshop at InterOp Las Vegas wrapped up the morning with a presentation on Big Data requirements by John West, CTO and Founder of Fabless...

1 replies - 1811 views - 05/10/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Rant about Github Pull-Request Workflow Implementation

One of my recent innocent tweet about Gerrit vs Github triggered much more reponses and debate that I expected it to. I realize that it might be...

0 replies - 2246 views - 05/10/13 by Julien Danjou in Articles

How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 1)

I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple of dozens of...

6 replies - 19410 views - 05/10/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

Review: Hadoop Beginner's Guide

Hadoop Beginner's Guide by Garry TurkingtonISBN: 1849517304Hadoop Beginner's Guide is, as the title suggests, a new introductory book to the Hadoop...

0 replies - 5167 views - 05/10/13 by Charles Anderson in Articles

Background Notification Hack for iPad and iPhone Sites

Mobile browsers may look like desktop browsers, but their behavior sometimes is different and we need to understand them to provide the right user experience....

0 replies - 1629 views - 05/10/13 by Maximiliano Firtman in Articles

Write Sitting Down, Edit Standing Up

On March 26th I giddily said it takes about two months to write a technical book. Still high from the recent success it seemed like the thing to...

0 replies - 2278 views - 05/09/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

How I'd Sell Unit Testing

Someone came up to me after my MAX session on web development debugging and asked for some advice on how to 'sell' unit testing to his clients. This was my...

1 replies - 3386 views - 05/09/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Exporting and Sharing Sublime Text Configuration

Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can...

0 replies - 2506 views - 05/09/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

A Week in the Life: DevOps vs IT Ops

This five minute talk from DevOps Days Austin 2013 compares a week in the life of a DevOps team to that of a traditional IT Ops team, drawing on...

0 replies - 1858 views - 05/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles