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Oct 22, 2016
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
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
To be delivered this afternoon at the 19th Mars Society Convention!
Sep 23, 2016
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
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
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…
Sep 3, 2016
On Thursday night, Mary Catherine Cochran, executive director of the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, asked some very insightful questions about my analysis of flooding in Ellicott City: ::embed{href="https://www.facebook.com/howardjp/posts/601279356432"} These questions are worth going…
Sep 2, 2016
Last night, Mary Catherine Cochran, executive director of the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, asked some very insightful questions about my analysis of flooding in Ellicott City: ::embed{href="https://www.facebook.com/howardjp/posts/601279356432"} These questions are worth going into…
Aug 30, 2016
Everyone has been posting their first day of school pictures this week and I am reminded of a different first day of school. Twenty years ago, I took a dive into the…
Aug 22, 2016
Chase and I have started playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game, a lot. Perhaps obviously, this comes from the confluence of two events. First, in July, we started playing Pokémon GO. Second,…
Aug 17, 2016
This morning, I was walking to the office and trying to catch a caterpie) when I thought to tweet, Amazed the GPS network hasn't been crushed under the load of PokemonGo users!…