Dec 13, 2016
Is Sewing Engineering?
Last night, Nina spent some time working on a holiday dress for Ducky. There will be another post about this next week, but Nina hit me with a question, How is this…
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Dec 5, 2016
We'll Do It Live!
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce that Bill Woodcock and I are launching our current affairs Internet show, Do It Live! this Sunday at 7pm, EST. This has been in the…
Dec 3, 2016
Syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods
As promised, I've posted the syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods in Administration. This course is a generic research methods course, though it is set in the MSA context. As a result,…
Nov 28, 2016
What Goes Around Comes Around, Teaching Edition
This spring, I will be teaching something a bit different. I will still be teaching mathematics online for UMUC, but I will also be teaching MSA 600 -- Foundations of Research Methods…
Oct 30, 2016
Watch my talk at the 2016 Mars Society Convention
I haven't been posting much lately, because I have been super busy with just about everything. But, the Mars Society has posted videos from the 19th Mars Society Convention, including my talk…
Oct 22, 2016
My Review of Monogan's Political Analysis Using R
The Journal of Statistical Software has published another review I wrote, this time of Monogan's Political Analysis Using R . The book is a solid choice for a primary or supplementary text…
Oct 4, 2016
My New Math Assignment Rubric
Two years after I wrote my big grading rubric in our Desire2Learn platform, it has become increasingly clear it is insufficient for effective grading. That's not to say it is bad, but…
Sep 24, 2016
My Presentation on Martian Economics
To be delivered this afternoon at the 19th Mars Society Convention!
Sep 23, 2016
Learn How to Manage a Basement Flood
Geoff Williams writes in the U.S. News and World Report about how to manage a basement flood and in this article, I talk about insurance, and how your basement can flood after…
Sep 19, 2016
Announcing Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis
For about two years, I've been working on a book called Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R ( CMNA ), which will present an outline of numerical analysis topics with original…
Sep 13, 2016
These People are Not Qualified to Give Opinions
It's suddenly become a thing to suggest that something or another is disqualifying. It's coming up a lot in the presidential election. I keep hearing that Clinton is disqualified over the email…