
This set of notes covers the main things that I think you need to know about working with git. It is not comprehensive and mainly serves as a reminder for...
3 replies - 6812 views - 02/07/13 by Rob Allen in Articles

As I’ve blogged about before, and mentioned again in my previous post, the great mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré put in two hours of...
0 replies - 3458 views - 02/07/13 by John Cook in Articles

Scott and I ventured out of the office yesterday evening to check out a new group starting up– Charlottesville’s Big Data Group. The most exciting...
0 replies - 8722 views - 02/07/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles

It is clear that the annual bonus system doesn't work. A tremendous amount of research says that it demotivates people, destroys collaboration, and causes...
0 replies - 1714 views - 02/07/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

In Network Analysis the identification of important nodes is a common task. We have various centrality measures that we can use and in this post we...
0 replies - 1407 views - 02/07/13 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles

“Today, software and hardware together provide far more powerful factories than most statisticians realize, factories that many of today’s most able...
0 replies - 1640 views - 02/07/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

If you are running HBase and commands are giving you an error that looks like this:Fri Oct 05 21:45:02 UTC 2012,...
0 replies - 1723 views - 02/07/13 by George London in Articles

I've spent a good amount of time setting up message-based infrastructures, so I decided to make a tool that would allow me to set up localhost friendly,...
0 replies - 1279 views - 02/07/13 by Abhishek Kumar in Articles

For years I've been taught that breaking continuous integration build is something that should be avoided under all circumstances. Let me first quote few...
3 replies - 6675 views - 02/06/13 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles

During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked me how to do that.First lets...
0 replies - 1819 views - 02/06/13 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

Consider the following time series,What does this look like? I know, it's a stupid game, but I keep using it in my time series courses. It does...
0 replies - 1463 views - 02/06/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

In the previous entry “Developing Your Own Solr Filter” we’ve shown how to implement a simple filter and how to use it in Apache Solr. Recently, one of...
0 replies - 1538 views - 02/06/13 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Here is the list of tools being used in an Agile environment that were discussed in this forum post. I have added some based on my previous experience as...
0 replies - 2776 views - 02/06/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

What does it mean to be conscious? Flying across the country earlier this month, I read a recent issue of the Atlantic and in particular an article on...
0 replies - 1639 views - 02/05/13 by Eric Minick in Articles

In actuarial science, and insurance ratemaking, taking into account the exposure can be a nightmare (in datasets, some clients have been here for a...
0 replies - 1039 views - 02/05/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles